AUDIO
Blinding light issues silently, shadowing
blanched lagoons in saltless seas.
Beyond literality, images—stripped, seamless—
blend liturgically into sudden sonorities,
binding lateral instants—singularly, semaphorically.
Bioluminescence lingers inside sublimation’s subalpine
breeze. Looping iterations spangle space,
bending like infinitesimal sutures sewn
by latent isostasies, sidereal seismologies.
Being loosens its slipknot, suspended
beyond levered iconography, sheltered surreptitiously
between lost, intervallic sutras, saturated
by latticed iridescence, soft-focus somnambulency.
Burgeoning longitudes incinerate seething susurrations,
bolero-like, lunate, irredeemably soldered. Some
buried, lithospheric integer shall spin,
bringing ligatured intensities, simulating synchronic
Byzantine laminates. Incunabular séances shall
bridge lacunae in subjunctive stereotactility,
because life is somatic seriality,
because likeness is sampled sustainability,
because longing is stalagmitic supplementarity,
because language is scintillating surrogacy,
because language is spectral stenography,
because language is spiraling speculation.
Buttressed lament…insistent, sequential serration:
both—labyrinthine—irradiate, since swarming,
boreal libraries incant synthetic shibboleths
balanced lackadaisically in stochastic scattering,
bordered like isomorphic silence. So
braille’s lapidary intelligence smelts syllabic
breath lithographically, intimating saturate space
beneath laced induction. Sporadic stylistics
blowtorch laboratories if superscriptions somersault,
boomeranging like incandescent, staccato sentences,
blistering like igneous, sinusoidal stimuli,
borne luxuriantly in sapient sound.
[Note: The preceding text is an example of “acronymic poetry,” which is, according to the Oulipo Compendium, “[v]erse in which the letters of a given word furnish the initials of the words used in each line.” This piece was commissioned by the journalist Justin Nobel for a performance in Blissville, Queens on May 15, 2011.]
