On Reaction
Calvin Pennix
On Reaction Calvin Pennix
Differentia Press Santa Maria, CA
On Reaction Calvin Pennix Copyright © 2013 All Rights Reserved. Published by Differentia Press Book Design by Felino A. Soriano Cover Art, “boomboom”, courtesy of Calvin Pennix Except for the sole purpose for use in reviews, no portion of this book may be reproduced in any form, without the written permission from the publisher. Differentia Press Santa Maria, CA 93458
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Thank you to the editors of On Barcelona, New Mystics and Lightning’d Press, where parts of this collection appear
COMMUNICATED CONFIDENCE At a loss one begins in italics
Additional markings communicate confidence in upwards of … situating a main point
As distracted avoidance and clearly defined however it’s a fragment
How far does blue
A CALL FOR INTERPRETATION but still there’s a position of acquiring which is cause for concern of immediacy
A call for interpretation produces a finite infinity that stretches to a personal end Black Left White Right Up Blue Down Seven Lenses widen as they shrink when one steps outside themselves allowing for the music to be heard
This impatient used to sprout in the spring
A COLLECTION OF LESSER DISTINCTION So as it happens notoriety concedes to hatred Apart from each we speak in monotone allowing wiggle room An expansion is welcome in conversation o o a watering daylight o o a collection of humanity Recognition ďƒ other than metaphor ďƒ&#x; represents those of lesser distinction who have overcome the struggle which is a necessity to o o o o
Glow Flourish Shine Grow
Finally a check worth mentioning is prevalent
ABSTAINING FROM FALTERING Perseverance as it stands expectantly as a barrier that molds and corrodes outside spatial quality divides itself in many directions abstaining from faltering though teeter it may
Residue begins to compile feverishly giving in to spastic sights seen through perforated vision
LEADING IS ANOTHER MATTER A landing stuck leaves no room for interpretation Who What When Where Why How Square root or squared The inverse takes on a following that follows the followers leading is another matter An enclosed space has its fourth wall broken a gaze produces anxiety
Memorizing a memory changes its definition
REGISTERED AS OPAQUE Things exist in differing modes of o stasis o closure o finality
A decent person waiting to be allowed to breathe reaches for the surface as it continuously appears registers its status as opaque
This contempt
though object leers nearby
VOID THE VISION OF EMPTINESS In the distance shriveled with age the purple posits a reckoning but vows in its stillness to void the vision of emptiness Registered with adornment the landscape expands at a minimal clip and light provides nourishment while sifting through the gravity With exaggerated amplification this ornamentation speaks in tones audible though masked under a differing sense Archived as permanently expandable is this instant this instant this instant
DISJOINTED BY ITS OWN CONNECTIVITY Down and around on Barbadanes1
that contributes to the landscape a condition of bluntness nevertheless a condition The fall preceding the rise presents as necessity disjointedness
by its own connectivity
We employ a place that has pounded itself into deconstruction Alas we celebrate its openness and present it as variously configurable bits stiffened by a kind of rigor mortis Down and around on Barbadanes
1
the street not a metaphorical street but an actual street
GUIDES THE RESERVES A collection of stock resists in varying forms of conflicting grandeur allowing for instances of seclusion
Demonstrative displays as deterrents act as barriers withholders of the miniscule ((((bright browns highlighted with black)))) fostered for such a presentation
The empowered portion guides the reserves intensifying the delusion
REPURPOSING CONTROLS THE SOUNDS Obtuse accuracy relies on a perspective of change as authors persuade
gathering identities
Repurposing controls the sounds as we arrive shortly effecting our own attribution and causing stasis inching stasis stasis placing a premium on being a commodity
A straightening
spiral opens at a wide angle access easily attained
PERPENDICULAR TO EVERYTHING To discredit belies an allowance of judgment
The sound of night distorts an aroma’s hue leaving its nakedness concealed
Hands appear pristine pristine only because they are empty and angled perpendicular to everything
TRANSLATIONS OF INTRICATE SYSTEMS But then again what we call for is sustenance
The ability to o speak o write o think Is not a given and comes with a price
What do we pay or withhold to become transparent within ideals
We hold these truths
I often wonder
World peace
We employ a stance that mirrors others but yet deviate to make it our own
There was once a place that we held dear it has been torn apart by what we hold dear
Varying forms serve as translations of the most intricate systems in a bouquet that holds its silence amongst ceremonial opposition
EXISTING IN READINESS Deferral against participation elides a knowing slowed by casual connectiveness empowered by consumption Absolutes speak no equal resist categorizing elitists in logic
Figures being unified amongst a background figures
of
Some readiness exists digresses in a mass of digressions but not before a slow dance a rhythm prone to deter filtering a domain in the last possible seconds and we stand and oblige the lack of topical relation extending through a scope disclosed as historical
AN INNATE VICARIOUSNESS In correspondence to the lowest plane of mental capacity we go down around 11 give or take
An episode of waking life Man Tree Tree Man Inertia is built through lack of action an innate vicariousness on display though missed in sight
A narcissistic mimicry carries a hint of truth realness that belies perception and allows for interpretation simulating an appearance of submission
We exert a compulsion of bowing to necessity then vow to defeat it
DIMENSIONS OF EXTENSION Undocumented resources downgrade somewhere between this
and
that looming
in hopes of waiting for ascension
amongst
unrehearsed
chemicals
Domain: {humans} Range: {culture} A dimension of extension allows for one of time Put up against oneself
there’s a retreating
The trick of being alive is something about having an outside which can be witnessed and an inside that can’t
Though they vary in size one tends to walk in circles
STRUCTURED W/ POTENTIAL A chance [word] upon paper may destroy [the world] as a window [ ] also acts as a wall | || as consequence it becomes impenetrable A sour stench seeps through a loss o innocence o time o capacity portrayed as inductive posits procrastination […] structured with potential