All Dried Up Calvin Pennix
quarter after press
Copyright Š quarter after 2012 All Rights Reserved quarter after
A quick note: I have decided (after much internal debate) to produce my own chapbook as the first publication from quarter after press. I have done so to give viewers and artists an idea of what we are hoping to produce - I am personally playing the role of the guinea pig. Before you is the first publication from quarter after press and hope are that it will be enjoyed and inspire you to submit work. This will be the only work of my own that I will publish. Thanks for reading. Enjoy. All the best in creating, Calvin Pennix Founding Editor, quarter after
The trick of being alive is something about having an outside which can be witnessed, and an inside that can’t.
A CALL FOR INTERPRETATION
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 special 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
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
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
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
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the street not a metaphorical street but an actual street
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
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 This contempt registers its status as opaque though object leers nearby
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
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