“Available Epigraphs”

Jonny Lohr

Ignore convention a while

And in return get this nice joke

Yeah, I like Sarah McLachlan Plenty

Hopefully building just enough to get it

And then

Get it by getting it

And getting how to get it

“Begotten”

So to speak by

Surfacing obfuscation together

…

Look up rorate

That is the image

Sheltering

From text

Or also

As assembly

…

Picture coast

Becoming coast

Strings swelling in

Breathing

Snoring brass

…

If you feel bored

Redraw the radio mystery

Shocking comparisons

From billions to circumference

God-display of mechanism

Clocks made

Hour’s a symbol woven throughout

Material

Then

Silence built to schedule

Fermenting Monstrance

Defenestration

Encasement pointing

Not diegetic

…

Tinnitus echoes our interlude

Municipal & Interlude

Transportation plates in orbit

Edges scrape around each surface

What percentage of this is artifact

& which generation

Laid sheet on plaid

Numbers are exact blur

Hold up an image

A planet against the planet

Search through flux of cold

Chasing hot color vehicles

Now aged & it’s speckled

Expected

        Another chuckle

That Trotskyist typeface is funny today

Evoking their hand-written signs

Ironic

It’s immutability loss

Pinpoints the referent’s prime

…

Memento Mori

A tattoo of a skeleton smoking a cigarette,

holding a banner that says ‘it’s a living’

…

This is only half of the solo

Delay

Forgotten

A new pope elected in the factory

Smoke or

Constructing another pilgrimage

Whichever takes precedence

…

Where’d I find this recitation?

Knows how memory can fail

When someone is strapped to a printing press

…

Job offer:

Henosis

Unsuccessful

Attempts to jump

Dielectric & dialectic

Losing opera and lumber

Yeasts with each fermentation

…

Orchestration follow libretto

set in Linotype plates

Saints

atonal

glockenspiel

The

book

I

remembered

is

the

one

I

imagine.

Staple

stack

of

sheets

into

publication.

Press

repeats.

…

Scharmel Iris play

Occult tying the long desires

Romantic to Modern of

Attaining aristocracy

Specific celebrity

Join me in silence and cunning

…

What I’ve been afraid to say

The memory remains

& unobliviated

Yet

Static resonating

I just work here

A pneumatic tube

Extended from that mural

Proscenium from the representative

Reflection of the past.

…

Voices harmonized to synthetic

Horns sound

Hard to tell

Rasterized

                like pastiche

The shift from quotations

Ends with an offness

Draped flattening calculations

Curves lines to sheets

Without scale

Cover the world

Like really world

Well, liquidity &

Light precedes

an overtaken dialogic