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Author: ALEXANDER, WILL
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Alexander, Will    Poet's Biography
49 poems available by this author


ABOVE THE HUMAN NERVE DOMAIN    Poem Text    
First Line: To unlock predisposives in carbon
Last Line: Of the bell of a bloodless liminal amber
Subject(s): Science; Scientists


ALBANIA & THE DEATH OF ENVER HOXHA       
First Line: Sacrifice / closely paralleled with sadness
Subject(s): Albania; Hoxha, Enver (1908-1985)


ALBANIA & THE DEATH OF ENVER HOXHA       
First Line: Sacrifice %closely paralleled with sadness
Last Line: & the bulging knot of old 'fox-trots' %& purges
Subject(s): Albania; Hoxha, Enver (1908-1985)


APPRENTICESHIP    Poem Text    
First Line: Here I am
Last Line: By ... Paratactic co-ordination /& fire
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets


CARIBBEAN: LANGUAGE AS TRANSLUCENT IMMINENCE       
First Line: Language being the primal conductor of liberty becomes the mag
Last Line: Which a beacon mesmerically burns with the stars of a translucent imminence
Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Identity; Language Poetry; Tongues


CONCERNING THE HENBANE BIRD , SELS       
First Line: ... I am witness as draft %as cataclysm through stillness
Last Line: Yet at the same time enduring the anti-isolation of mass


COPING PRANA    Poem Text    
First Line: It is the way I breathe
Last Line: Being leakage from a barbarous index province
Subject(s): Body, Human; Reason


DAWNING ZONE/THE ERUPTING PARALLEL SPECIES       
First Line: Crossed beyond the zones of the piscean, meandering like a sand
Last Line: The substance of vistas


EXPLOSIVE DECIBEL JOURNEYS       
First Line: Inside the catalytic mine field
Last Line: & the eerie decibels of an insolvent limbo


FINAL POLTERGEIST OF POMPEII       
First Line: In this ruthless zone of nervous brutality
Last Line: For the lava to flow & turn the flesh into tufa


FISHING AS IMPENETRABLE STRAY       
First Line: Perhaps I fish by carnivorous scorpion
Last Line: Inscripted %on certain methane tablets in kemet


IMPULSE AND NOTHINGNESS       
First Line: These dense geranium surges of thought
Last Line: Spying on shapes in the darkness


INSIDE THE GHOST VOLCANO    Poem Text    
First Line: With the body of a morbid hanging doll
Last Line: As pleas for hushed exhibits
Subject(s): Volcanoes


LIFE IN POST-SOCRATIC BIOLOGY       
First Line: Body
Last Line: With a taint which seeps from conquered fractional salt


LIGHTNING: PART II: BALL LIGHTNING       
First Line: Disk falling from negative chargesh
Last Line: Imposed existence of peril


NEXUS OF PHANTOMS       
First Line: In a lorikeet cave %motions exist of disintegrated swans
Last Line: Scattered across a geometric optometry


OBLIQUE SENSORIAL SAVAGERY       
First Line: You are green
Subject(s): Animals; Wilderness


OBLIQUE SENSORIAL SAVAGERY       
First Line: You are green
Last Line: Always cooking in your nostrils %a wayward blend of hot photinos & selvas
Subject(s): Animals; Wilderness


ON ANTI-BIOGRAPHY    Poem Text    
First Line: For me, biography is a lantern, burning in the midst of parenthetical opaqueness. In a
Last Line: Into the ecstasy of x-rays and blackness
Subject(s): Biography; Biographers


ON THE FORMING SUBSTANCE OF ORISHAS       
First Line: Like spectra glass
Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology


ON THE FORMING SUBSTANCE OF ORISHAS       
First Line: Like spectra glass
Last Line: Beyond the trait of canonic barrier as reversion
Subject(s): Faith; Religion


PART 3 RETURN STROKE, FR. LIGHTNING       
First Line: Lightning channel filled up with language
Last Line: Piercing the brink of the transparent boundless


POET IN POST-ENDURANCE       
First Line: Evolved from the smoke of a swirling helium tree
Last Line: Across the arch of your ferocious lingual fingers


PROVISION FOR THE HIGHER OZONE BODY    Poem Text     Recitation by Author
First Line: A beaker of yeast
Subject(s): Bodies; Reason; Spiritual Life; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


PROVISION FOR THE HIGHER OZONE BODY       
First Line: A beaker of yeast
Last Line: At the pitch of the transmuted ozone body
Subject(s): Bodies; Reason; Spiritual Life


PSYCHOTROPIC SQUALLS       
First Line: To peer into the obverse
Last Line: Of unstable altimeter reverses


REMORSE & INFINITY       
First Line: Rushing into salt %& blackened sapphire shadows %immortality
Last Line: Into an a-moral falling %of hyperemian rains


SONG IN BARBAROUS FUMAROLE OF THE JAPANESE CRESTED IBIS    Poem Text    
First Line: To claim as arcane vapour
Last Line: Of stunning axial omegas
Subject(s): Japanese Ibis


SONG OF OCCULT SOLAR RIDDLES       
First Line: Sun %cut off at the nerves
Last Line: Sun %purple voice %crushed anis rivulets %like a splayed outmacaw star %boiling in the branches


SPONTANEOUS BLAZES: BETRAYED       
First Line: I know what it feels like to be hurt
Last Line: At this very moment I feel I know nothing


SPONTANEOUS BLAZES: INVISIBLE CITY       
First Line: If I were to build an invisible city it would have crystalline food, which
Last Line: Would mount a maroon boat, and arrive at the crystalline towers to have a trans_ %parent repast


SPONTANEOUS BLAZES: MY INTERIOR CITY       
First Line: We are dogs feeding off living aliens and humans. The city's water supply ends
Last Line: Are broken. The birds cease to fly, they simply walk on the earth


SPONTANEOUS BLAZES: ON THE UNIVERSE       
First Line: The universe contains moons, planets, suns, galaxies
Last Line: And I wonder if there are other things out there uncountable %in terms of the earth


SPONTANEOUS BLAZES: THERE'S ALWAYS LIGHT       
First Line: The world can't stay dark forever. The sun occulted. No one that's in pain
Last Line: And if someone cares, and if someone would stretch out a hand and say I care


STRATOSPHERIC CANTICLES, SELS.       
First Line: To paint %is to make a mark of mirrors
Last Line: With a temperature which reddens into eclectic willows of jade


SUMATRAN MIRROR WORLD       
First Line: An eaten dictatorial bracelet wasting down to the natural
Last Line: Into nude bursts of ether, feeding from a crown of secretive skull bones & saffron


TELEPATHIC CARNIVORE       
First Line: The fleece of its ubiquitous mineral body
Last Line: In a transcendental verbal swagger
Subject(s): Animals; Lions


THE CARIBBEAN: LANGUAGE AS TRANSLUCENT IMMINENCE       
First Line: Language being the primal conductor of liberty becomes the mag
Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Identity; Language Poetry; Tongues


THE IMPALPABLE BRUSH FIRE SINGER    Poem Text    
First Line: No/he is not an urn singer
Last Line: Stung at its source by piranhas
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


THE POINTLESS NETHER PLOW    Poem Text    
First Line: It is farming in an inclement sun system
Last Line: Carving his soil with volcanic blue seeds
Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers


THE PSYCHOTROPIC SQUALLS    Poem Text    
First Line: To peer into the obverse
Last Line: Of unstable altimeter reverses
Subject(s): Language


THE TELEPATHIC CARNIVORE    Poem Text    
First Line: The fleece of its ubiquitous mineral body
Subject(s): Animals; Lions


THOUGHT AS PHILOSOPHICAL TORMENT    Poem Text    
First Line: In the mirror of excessive drift
Last Line: Bound to invisible comradery
Subject(s): Thought; Thinking


TOWARDS THE PRIMEVAL LIGHTNING FIELD    Poem Text    
First Line: The old chronological towers are ash
Last Line: Great sustained emotion of eternity
Subject(s): Language


VENTRILOQUAL LABOUR       
First Line: As species after species implodes through disappearance, it seems the
Last Line: Chemically superseding the poisonous metrical weight of our era


WATER DOG       
First Line: Born under butane & water
Last Line: Of cyclic ambrosial dimensions


WITHIN A MORE INTENSE THALASSIC       
First Line: A spark from ambrosian leper fields
Last Line: Emitting their powers %from the depth of 'hydrozoan medusae'


WITHIN THE OPAQUE TERMITES' MORASS       
First Line: They %of collided pincer malfunction
Last Line: The wrnching leonine soils


WITHIN THE ORACULAR SEA HORSE MIRROR       
First Line: Immersed %in this verdurous galaxy of salt
Last Line: For declination & explosion