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THE RAT MINARET
THE RAT MINARET
© Mac Wellman 2012
L R Llittle red leaves textile editions
www.littleredleaves.com
© Mac Wellman 2012
L R Llittle red leaves textile editions
www.littleredleaves.com
The Rat MinaretMac Wellman
little red leaves 2012
The Rat MinaretMac Wellman
little red leaves 2012
[6]
[6]
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[5]
[5]
LOST from an airyisostasylime disc, Southyou and SILVERY
~
O fanciest fan choralvat brilliant violet,
here the f lixweed’s ...
~
AIRY disc tipped up and onsilvery
an X and
~
LOST from an airyisostasylime disc, Southyou and SILVERY
~
O fanciest fan choralvat brilliant violet,
here the f lixweed’s ...
~
AIRY disc tipped up and onsilvery
an X and
~
[6]
[6]
A line of triple X’s are earmarked, goto screw the,
Pan-dora,
go and catch atakes it to
the only “ism”;Y the ceremony
Y the cereus;Close the clack-valve, the
~
A line of triple X’s are earmarked, goto screw the,
Pan-dora,
go and catch atakes it to
the only “ism”;Y the ceremony
Y the cereus;Close the clack-valve, the
~
[7]
[7]
Odd’s sake takes the risk.An immolation
inthe name of whose day.
No match, or if one,no gasoline;
who runs this joint? Not a who
known to Peekaboo.
~
Odd’s sake takes the risk.An immolation
inthe name of whose day.
No match, or if one,no gasoline;
who runs this joint? Not a who
known to Peekaboo.
~
[8]
[8]
As ever, both imperial and anticanonical,Silvery’s
madfools none, butfuels the dark.
Dim departure’sblack light.
~
Go to A one less could be a nightmarishnickel
wallop,X the
~
As ever, both imperial and anticanonical,Silvery’s
madfools none, butfuels the dark.
Dim departure’sblack light.
~
Go to A one less could be a nightmarishnickel
wallop,X the
~
[9]
[9]
CLASSIC urn-wallow and hop to hope tosnip from agenbite,mealybug, tookto Bazerlies Cylinders;not bay-bay, no,nor
bayadere
~
Telecommute with Teledu, Xis not enough
true tinseypaddle boat to the
long plank, inkstand on to inkstar
~
CLASSIC urn-wallow and hop to hope tosnip from agenbite,mealybug, tookto Bazerlies Cylinders;not bay-bay, no,nor
bayadere
~
Telecommute with Teledu, Xis not enough
true tinseypaddle boat to the
long plank, inkstand on to inkstar
~
[10]
[10]
A scarabrecliner dripdries ahook catenary
to aks you, DregdrindrumlinY and off
U and non u toa beepollen
drinkable predicate sunburst, o
Y.
~
A scarabrecliner dripdries ahook catenary
to aks you, DregdrindrumlinY and off
U and non u toa beepollen
drinkable predicate sunburst, o
Y.
~
[11]
[11]
So, the 31st of St Precis’s day, thescaremonger andMeker burner, whowho and who isshe, O Melancthonian, whothe Xthe XThe Y-- photophobophonic-- who careers to? the.Who.
~
YES, ladies y ladrones, at Jay it turns back into a G;
at St Rogue’s dropU
is xspelled toC.
C bright so.
~
So, the 31st of St Precis’s day, thescaremonger andMeker burner, whowho and who isshe, O Melancthonian, whothe Xthe XThe Y-- photophobophonic-- who careers to? the.Who.
~
YES, ladies y ladrones, at Jay it turns back into a G;
at St Rogue’s dropU
is xspelled toC.
C bright so.
~
[12]
[12]
TO find a gamma golden today rose in the voice asunvoiced,
nichenidifugous
Shied away from, shieldtempered. A glint
glimpse of the of the
of the afar owlradiopaque
my fellow X and radish
ish. sh. Fall silent now
~
TO find a gamma golden today rose in the voice asunvoiced,
nichenidifugous
Shied away from, shieldtempered. A glint
glimpse of the of the
of the afar owlradiopaque
my fellow X and radish
ish. sh. Fall silent now
~
[13]
[13]
A ripening West Thornrecalculates the timbre
tamtamtem;
One kind of owlgrass topis another’s Trip to J.
tomtum
tum, o;
Tin, listen to your shapely canfor it cannot mum aluminum
tumtemtem.
~
A ripening West Thornrecalculates the timbre
tamtamtem;
One kind of owlgrass topis another’s Trip to J.
tomtum
tum, o;
Tin, listen to your shapely canfor it cannot mum aluminum
tumtemtem.
~
[14]
[14]
So, as Silvery’s empty turn
droptoa
grave condition, actual
as the Mole’s-way
delves a darkening
bloodswort
~
So, as Silvery’s empty turn
droptoa
grave condition, actual
as the Mole’s-way
delves a darkening
bloodswort
~
[15]
[15]
Deep in the Malabar nightshade, dear, magnus hitchis diazatized
with a swivel-typenewel. Deep in the sem-sem X
Madras, madrasah, mahoon.
~
Somewhere’s wicked glove, moonpowdered,silent, extreme.
A star goose on high,
Limbo catwalk
delivered. A dare
devilled egg.No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
~
Deep in the Malabar nightshade, dear, magnus hitchis diazatized
with a swivel-typenewel. Deep in the sem-sem X
Madras, madrasah, mahoon.
~
Somewhere’s wicked glove, moonpowdered,silent, extreme.
A star goose on high,
Limbo catwalk
delivered. A dare
devilled egg.No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
~
[16]
[16]
With a jinx upon the timing gearan
X is lost
where St Powder frownedin azure crystal
Dinnono. Dinoon. Din.
~
Needle growing in ancient basalthear
Time’srampant chirrup. X to a turnip
is taut entablature. A no one
goad, gree.
~
With a jinx upon the timing gearan
X is lost
where St Powder frownedin azure crystal
Dinnono. Dinoon. Din.
~
Needle growing in ancient basalthear
Time’srampant chirrup. X to a turnip
is taut entablature. A no one
goad, gree.
~
[17]
[17]
A medley of whackswatted.
Ohm’s toe. Things grow cold.
~
Daylight recognitionizes
nebunebunebu
cats eat grassunder
moonish moonlight.
Things grow hot.
~
A medley of whackswatted.
Ohm’s toe. Things grow cold.
~
Daylight recognitionizes
nebunebunebu
cats eat grassunder
moonish moonlight.
Things grow hot.
~
[18]
[18]
UNITED BOLT & SCREWwill
find youout.
Down in down in down in. Outperson;in your
featherbed of X’s and O’s.
Down in Dumbowhere live wires
turnthe
buckle, O to off.
~
UNITED BOLT & SCREWwill
find youout.
Down in down in down in. Outperson;in your
featherbed of X’s and O’s.
Down in Dumbowhere live wires
turnthe
buckle, O to off.
~
[19]
[19]
KEEP C in secret shoebox, monsoor,for whose X
sake an unknownoboe mmm
inaugurates an aural haloof ignes fatui
~
ALL the way clear to Aliquippa
helical ticks the gearwheel,
Kewpie Kewpie Kewpie;
radiant with nonself.
KEEP C in secret shoebox, monsoor,for whose X
sake an unknownoboe mmm
inaugurates an aural haloof ignes fatui
~
ALL the way clear to Aliquippa
helical ticks the gearwheel,
Kewpie Kewpie Kewpie;
radiant with nonself.
[20]
[20]
>
>
[21]
[21]
The Rat Minaret--
Hazarding past thedewdrop Wyou encountercounter
a nonself
redrift as can opener.
~
Raven’s woolly departure’s Y top a
burnt Bernouli;
you too.
~
The Rat Minaret--
Hazarding past thedewdrop Wyou encountercounter
a nonself
redrift as can opener.
~
Raven’s woolly departure’s Y top a
burnt Bernouli;
you too.
~
[22]
[22]
NO POINT MORTGAGES wilt in daynightswild thyme;
the onus on us
a tragic lumber. Conceal your
ogive in glitter’s hole, fabulous
with real church baptism
~
Evil Raven, have paper pity upon thosein Stamford Plaza.
~
NO POINT MORTGAGES wilt in daynightswild thyme;
the onus on us
a tragic lumber. Conceal your
ogive in glitter’s hole, fabulous
with real church baptism
~
Evil Raven, have paper pity upon thosein Stamford Plaza.
~
[23]
[23]
Who lowers the unseen hat from on highif not
an unseen dominionwith an unknown agenda?
~
Soon an oldy amphoraishere & now’s amphora;
grows antlered and
writin’ on tablesis stupid
as the saying goes.
~
Who lowers the unseen hat from on highif not
an unseen dominionwith an unknown agenda?
~
Soon an oldy amphoraishere & now’s amphora;
grows antlered and
writin’ on tablesis stupid
as the saying goes.
~
[24]
[24]
Midnight rain:
A ghost slopsfrom door to door
asking for a realumbrella.
Sad, saddest Hejirah!
But no one hearsthe fatal knock.
~
Most simple things repel each against the other.
The rule is a skid-mark of light.Humble, yet a
frightwig’s truth.
~
Midnight rain:
A ghost slopsfrom door to door
asking for a realumbrella.
Sad, saddest Hejirah!
But no one hearsthe fatal knock.
~
Most simple things repel each against the other.
The rule is a skid-mark of light.Humble, yet a
frightwig’s truth.
~
[25]
[25]
Endowed fiction of a mouse ear,bring to eachspecificfracture the
absolute.
Absolute ears are listeningto all thingsatop the Rat Minaret.
~
7 places, each a heptad nuisance because you hafta can’t be too 7, see?
~
Endowed fiction of a mouse ear,bring to eachspecificfracture the
absolute.
Absolute ears are listeningto all thingsatop the Rat Minaret.
~
7 places, each a heptad nuisance because you hafta can’t be too 7, see?
~
[26]
[26]
Silvery tells no sphere to go andhawk the hat;
because the hat is oldyshe wear the fatal coat.
Silvery slips through dark reedslike pure contrition;
like smoke.Someone is in love with
someone no more.
~
NO tongue but bumbles, hasne’er expressedwhat the umbel
does, this caloric Fallin perfect radiation.
~
Silvery tells no sphere to go andhawk the hat;
because the hat is oldyshe wear the fatal coat.
Silvery slips through dark reedslike pure contrition;
like smoke.Someone is in love with
someone no more.
~
NO tongue but bumbles, hasne’er expressedwhat the umbel
does, this caloric Fallin perfect radiation.
~
[27]
[27]
Some one lies awake, her eye attentive in the general sleep
as it
tosses the moon from cat to cat
a gloved cloud recalls
those long, long lashes.
~
Some one lies awake, her eye attentive in the general sleep
as it
tosses the moon from cat to cat
a gloved cloud recalls
those long, long lashes.
~
[28]
[28]
Something saucer-eyed, O Airy, resides atthe bottomof thy inky porcelain.
~
CRACKED ATTICS run the gamut of ruin’sopen-faced
timber. Last puppet still
must detox debug.
O Alabama, O Alabama.
~
Something saucer-eyed, O Airy, resides atthe bottomof thy inky porcelain.
~
CRACKED ATTICS run the gamut of ruin’sopen-faced
timber. Last puppet still
must detox debug.
O Alabama, O Alabama.
~
[29]
[29]
At the sun hub’s electromagneticsanctorumsomething
telltaletells me I am correct to
hide all expectation.
~
Each ring tells a story in the worldbefore this one, too.
Three to a parable.Four to a
treehouse, see.
~
At the sun hub’s electromagneticsanctorumsomething
telltaletells me I am correct to
hide all expectation.
~
Each ring tells a story in the worldbefore this one, too.
Three to a parable.Four to a
treehouse, see.
~
[30]
[30]
Tell me, O silent Mahoon, which was theturn’s out;
and if a fracture in the porcelain,which way corrected its bat
and being a dead bat,gone and skyugled.
And they say the speaking leafis done.
~
Tell me, O silent Mahoon, which was theturn’s out;
and if a fracture in the porcelain,which way corrected its bat
and being a dead bat,gone and skyugled.
And they say the speaking leafis done.
~
[31]
[31]
What will not serve a tellingshould be,
poor Witch of Agnesi,
perhaps withheld; althougha
lower, wider, deeperfractal
Euclid be drownedin pillow.
~
What will not serve a tellingshould be,
poor Witch of Agnesi,
perhaps withheld; althougha
lower, wider, deeperfractal
Euclid be drownedin pillow.
~
[32]
[32]
Odd raven, blow the tufted flinty charas
youpass over past
us: derelict andyellow-headed, a
nonself of magpieand other yellowyellow stuff.
~
Blue sky in a human facethe wide surprisesurprised at itself
Auntie No Hoo Hoohas learned it all from you,
highest shelf of self.
~
Odd raven, blow the tufted flinty charas
youpass over past
us: derelict andyellow-headed, a
nonself of magpieand other yellowyellow stuff.
~
Blue sky in a human facethe wide surprisesurprised at itself
Auntie No Hoo Hoohas learned it all from you,
highest shelf of self.
~
[33]
[33]
What has opened is a weed’sbelief;
our laughter has no placein that oubliette,
but neither has our silence.
For Celan
~
So perfectly done and yetblank,
the show, as limned in blackvelour, lost riddles and a
snatch or two upon thesingular Cuban beard.
~
What has opened is a weed’sbelief;
our laughter has no placein that oubliette,
but neither has our silence.
For Celan
~
So perfectly done and yetblank,
the show, as limned in blackvelour, lost riddles and a
snatch or two upon thesingular Cuban beard.
~
[34]
[34]
If I have truly repaired the riddlehow, how how could I
not know it from the, the
fact of itand the Airy disc
of passionateplausibility that is
stuck there, blind rat.
~
Raven walks stick-legged to a moonmuch like ours,
roundy in appearancebut of a false order of being;
only there do they repairRaven’s broken wing.
~
If I have truly repaired the riddlehow, how how could I
not know it from the, the
fact of itand the Airy disc
of passionateplausibility that is
stuck there, blind rat.
~
Raven walks stick-legged to a moonmuch like ours,
roundy in appearancebut of a false order of being;
only there do they repairRaven’s broken wing.
~
[35]
[35]
?
?
[36]
[36]
Moth house is taking over, Sir Footfall,my
silvery domain.whyscare
what’s scarlet, if onlythese wings
alarm me, with a motheryof piffle, in my own
house of cards?
~
Moth house is taking over, Sir Footfall,my
silvery domain.whyscare
what’s scarlet, if onlythese wings
alarm me, with a motheryof piffle, in my own
house of cards?
~
[37]
[37]
Both ways at once impossiblebut double.
Both necessary to be humana terror
and terrificity.
Light caulin
cat’s humpedfur.
Adark call to simultaneous zig
zagzug
swan. O
~
Both ways at once impossiblebut double.
Both necessary to be humana terror
and terrificity.
Light caulin
cat’s humpedfur.
Adark call to simultaneous zig
zagzug
swan. O
~
[38]
[38]
.00007 is not only not my lark
it is a hopeless disposalofa numberless
stress of mustard seed upon the
pumpkin wind, oh.
~
.00007 is not only not my lark
it is a hopeless disposalofa numberless
stress of mustard seed upon the
pumpkin wind, oh.
~
[39]
[39]
A slip-up master minded is afixture
with no plug.
A fixture with no plug,O Airy, ought
to pass for merely humanin about a million
more seconds of anguishover the nature
of what’s
fixed and what’s free
by the overturned lake.
Near Popup and Peeptown,over second thoughts.
~
A slip-up master minded is afixture
with no plug.
A fixture with no plug,O Airy, ought
to pass for merely humanin about a million
more seconds of anguishover the nature
of what’s
fixed and what’s free
by the overturned lake.
Near Popup and Peeptown,over second thoughts.
~
[40]
[40]
My opening is now closed again.After 7 yearsa broken glasshas told thewordwhat to do:
what remains
like the shuttle cock
cannot beshut
Down. Cannot be so simply done.
~
My opening is now closed again.After 7 yearsa broken glasshas told thewordwhat to do:
what remains
like the shuttle cock
cannot beshut
Down. Cannot be so simply done.
~
[41]
[41]
Up on the moon’s highest pillowSilverysits and shutsher faint wing
till someone dare point theunerring finger in herdirection.
That finger is a way of assentingwithout saying “yes”.
~
Up on the moon’s highest pillowSilverysits and shutsher faint wing
till someone dare point theunerring finger in herdirection.
That finger is a way of assentingwithout saying “yes”.
~
[42]
[42]
After is after all a fiction,for like X
uponY
it is whatnever arrives and and and
River runs out the tub
Bim, bam, bum.
~
After is after all a fiction,for like X
uponY
it is whatnever arrives and and and
River runs out the tub
Bim, bam, bum.
~
[43]
[43]
Go, and find Airy her silver shoesforno lampswamp with gooey luxortripsand sways
deep, deep, deep in Gooner Park.
End of The Rat Minaret
Go, and find Airy her silver shoesforno lampswamp with gooey luxortripsand sways
deep, deep, deep in Gooner Park.
End of The Rat Minaret
MAC WELLMAN’s recent work includes 3 2’s; or AFAR
at Dixon Place in October 2011, The Difficulty of Crossing a Field (with composer David Lang) at Montclair in the fall
of 2006 (and elsewhere more recently), and 1965 UU for
performer Paul Lazar, and directed by Stephen Mellor at the
Chocolate Factory in the fall of 2008. He has received nu-
merous honors, including NEA, Guggenheim, and Founda-
tion of Contemporary Arts fellowships. In 2003 he received
his third Obie, for Lifetime Achievement. In 2006 his third
novel, Q’s Q , was published by Green Integer, and in 2008
a volume of stories, A Chronicle of the Madness of Small Worlds,
was published by Trip Street Press as well as a new collec-
tion of plays The Difficulty of Crossing a Field from Minnesota
Press. His books of poetry include Miniature (2002), Strange Elegies (2006) both from Roof Books, and Left Glove, just out
from Solid Objects Press. He is Distinguished Professor of
Play Writing at Brooklyn College.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .little red leaves textile series chapbooks are lovingly sewn by
Dawn Pendergast in Houston, Texas.
MAC WELLMAN’s recent work includes 3 2’s; or AFAR
at Dixon Place in October 2011, The Difficulty of Crossing a Field (with composer David Lang) at Montclair in the fall
of 2006 (and elsewhere more recently), and 1965 UU for
performer Paul Lazar, and directed by Stephen Mellor at the
Chocolate Factory in the fall of 2008. He has received nu-
merous honors, including NEA, Guggenheim, and Founda-
tion of Contemporary Arts fellowships. In 2003 he received
his third Obie, for Lifetime Achievement. In 2006 his third
novel, Q’s Q , was published by Green Integer, and in 2008
a volume of stories, A Chronicle of the Madness of Small Worlds,
was published by Trip Street Press as well as a new collec-
tion of plays The Difficulty of Crossing a Field from Minnesota
Press. His books of poetry include Miniature (2002), Strange Elegies (2006) both from Roof Books, and Left Glove, just out
from Solid Objects Press. He is Distinguished Professor of
Play Writing at Brooklyn College.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .little red leaves textile series chapbooks are lovingly sewn by
Dawn Pendergast in Houston, Texas.