Featured Poet: Holms Troelstrup

534p


“and the lark squawk has passed out
of season”
out of color
your petrified ambush
whelmed my words
distanced
grey in pastoral hands
whinnied
assonance
consents the crack/ed cage

bleaking
bay
briskly
the slutty sun in your theoretical rhetoric
casually slickening
river wack/ed a damn fools dissonance
intaglio glowered from
the
crux

throat
pregnant wi/the chemicals
made
for a lack
for the other
for Lacan en nosotros
can
you
“please keep watch over my wine pot”
i
wd nt guess that





s/l philoden drone 118a


am shineling
even as
you dont do
disem/bowled shake
ferocious
conscience
-damn damn of but-
spineling babe unfrazz
ling
app/roachable green
specoral lens don blindeye
“when
the current lets
you” [go?]
t(r)ide
surebound
shineling
malleable/shore
the pressem peece
reeking
split leaf
tiene un nombre pero
no lo recuerdo
,man,
wreachen this and
this the






lipstck 114a


she
en weeping wreach spilt over
turn/ed stead
en lack of limbs
still
con dedos de mano
span/ed some jillion pixels
for
bleeking sun
these damned respiring sphecius specious
wretchd
wicker time rocking solvently stunnd
tasting
nail
and
darkness
flickering gold
pummeled consonance
while sobbing tendril/ed fingerlings
blossom
over
edge
-can-put-that-a-way-now






las plantas del Michel F 605p

was
pensaba como
yr
f/rigid wds
steep sudden toll
to
seed
spreed de catastrophic ‘ture
abra
el
espacio/ization de
linguistic
comin grounded
diffuse pwr
magnetic machined hole
yr
encompass/ed pwr
de breath
de breath
to taken
my dioxide poisen
to drippen
my live/en o2

i
turn/ed stead
wards de tu
porque
usted es
todo el authoritarian
my vida
sunder
las plantas sunder
last plantas
te veo
my
paled meconnaisance
like leisured dis/dance
a piece
part/ed con
wordlessness
en lack of
breath
-to-where-you-stood-i-will-
no es nada, solo todo





c/limber 1211a


may be words
work
back words
dont find
these
terms to life
to
real peopl[ethos]elving
could
exploring meaning
mean the making
from fiachre’s passion [?]
does work to distinguish
this
little token whole
of social [?]
not
can these petals too fall
not
can these branches too reach
perhaps
do these alleys far span enough
do these bulbs ground gain instances
was such an
empty leg to lean but
leaning
lusts depend
lacking response
of falter
there-fi I lean etcetera
but my terms
back to
terms
meeting en mind
does
language break lineage
the geneology of ex/presson [?]
wonder in rudimentary ways
of
spelling
de
break lines
is
it
too
to fiddle simulate space
be
tween
to distanced
depth
i craven
spatial
relations to substantiate
owned breath
and
too breath
thought
of reflixtion
ample
expansed letters or
were there sleeping betwixt [?]
dozy extenda blink
lectured silent
i do eat crunchy pb isnt that
with raspberry preserves
enough to keep linked lines [?]
surely
to write is
to tree. and i am climb





Holms Troelstrup is a graduate student at Illinois State University. This is her first published work.


© 2009 Holms Troelstrup