CounterClock by Abigail Child


CounterClock
Title : CounterClock
Author :
Rating :
ISBN : -
Language : English
Format Type : Chapbook
Number of Pages : 14
Publication : Published January 1, 2009

Published as Tout Court Editions Number 3, by Mermaid Tenement Press (New York) in 2009, CounterClock is the inaugural part of an "experiment in autobiography" first performed at the St. Mark's Poetry Project and the Bowery Poetry Club (for the Segue Reading Series) in 2007 and 2008, respectively. Trimmed to 13.5 x 20.5 cm and saddle-stapled into stiff card covers designed by Paul "Vickers" Lyon with an image from Child's 2004 film The Future Is Behind You.


CounterClock Reviews


  • M.W.P.M.

    to dissimulate is to return, as on the noted planet where at a certain age one turns aside, rows back through youth and finally has to "go back in."
    -
    Clark Coolidge


    *

    Start here. Uncompensated tongue. Pressure point mortality periodicals linking the present to
    earlier structural loves. Read forward sharp reds. The words take off. Think. It starts.
    Evaporation of certain volatiles stitched unto space hurtling forward. Hunker present to left
    stickling pins in a back hammer pile. Enrich the feeling. Elixir. Lucked Structure with which
    to
    THINK THEM
    LAY

    atop that

    projecting


    Counter clock arias of sunlight watering walls, mind braided in seed juggles. Aria envelopes
    envelop room, practice tips thick from arrival mind. Moms in impractical revolt stray grinding
    brain stems under water. Crayon on crib lipstick mirrors. Wreath that place soft thrust so the
    roots of its listen. In sunlight parade of red-handed repercussions exit intensity, still: Silky leaps
    seethe jiggle wicking one-on-one hoops. More. Make a move from

    investiture,
    competitive,
    nutritive,

    compensatory

    *

    Celebrate strata. Star struck tuck-in growing thickening fingers of middle-aged maid
    undisfigured except by tongue thrust by virtue of in lieu that even empty as if in the reverse
    course of events this calibrated limits bruise. Sort of a non-coma in a virtue of its panty muffs.
    Face food forever. High-angled vowels trace old-worlds and persist. Greasy blonde curls
    predispose books: a lap or lose that. Manual work virtues definition. Here trope grows in
    virtue of its condition, analogous nudie resilient twins, geek ID.

    MOON-coloured
    G forces PLAN

    Combos

    (or are double-parked)


    Later we go from uh oh, or was it spring bled in dogwood's relief? It was a war tune or reverb
    to turn to geode: ceiling scanned (rough scrim) or rad beads recital. Hail it, so turn and Mary
    over wide and flat, a virtue to pay, a reason to pour. Sensitive and imprecise you try it. It
    spills. Soup suck surnames kick night stickball under double-cherry babes. Sidewalk's riverbed
    Jams. Hard as cake stale insulating absence. Your father you sucking you baby and no one yet
    to crayon. Even her you hear it: Insulating whirr by road flies firing night to make glitter bouts
    at hedge edges

    A meaning ( the meaning

    as a system of selection

    *

    Out of rising beauties, help it.
    Unfolding green greeny notched soldering. Our present tense. A day do or dosie. A following
    at almost. A sure post-bomb aplomb twitched in (this) variegated harvest, sun launched. Thus
    it was not; talking out eyes, long beginning that repeat posting a foresight on advantage
    Body. Start here: We're advantage, foresight in repair.
    Tucked in, quiet

    Painting ourselves on

    our

    We learn

    we lean, we count.


    Indeed you've told the truth. A jelly djinni, a wonder working jenny Johnny, a cuckoo to do.
    Unfigured - come on - le-de-da-di. Is that your final answer? Hey social jar! (Tillie
    Williams) on file card tickled to death. Actually oooh lala controlled preemptive strike. A
    sampling of rehearsed carpet mommies mummied on rosaries between Uncle Fred's Frolics
    and Roy Rogen's fuselage.

    Chain of
    job
    put through national
    ordeal
    tightfisted
    partnered in pink and blue

    *

    Lifting packet air under night power. Wind spilling image event over horizon. Pin pine sharp
    shadowed greens. FIghting pack tear ire pilling gimcrack eve. Watering practice, grinding
    mirrors. Mercury's anklets. Duh torque. That valley moment memorized melee. A name of
    course stops at a person. Toast arc rpm punctuated by commerce and Velveeta. Measure
    breathing image. Meaner. Move in irritating narcissism.

    puppy on palm
    fabled

    u la la

    if this were backward it would shoot

    straight up, out
    into whelming board.



    Lie
    there.


    Obviate that: service by gender in lacquered moo-moo with monomaniacal gravy boats
    schmooey. Alternatively, midst the wild jimmy, ram shag bebopbalu making suck muck
    silvered stickball mild emotional molecular scrapbooks of -

    sudden dark.


    An attempt at not hard clear
    images bu absorption of these.






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