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mi me ot ix
An Electronic Mimeozine
of Experimental Poetry

Number One
Spring 2010
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Table of Contents
Charlie Bertsch
Writing raiments without consciousness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

Steven Burt
Want. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Enid Bagnold
The other greens. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Philbert Blund
The burn in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Leo Bruce
Four minimalist quartets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Maharoof Oguk (translated by P. W. Minor)

Three Poems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Notes & Bios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

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Writing raiments without consciousness
The bearers of an infinite sweep will
suffice themselves, declined, quartered
It will be he who will split
me
He will round what will suffice
for me
If he will be
hateful, he will
knit himself, my nerve proud with
silver
He will like pompous
seas
He will adore what will persevere
for me
He will taste his
mind leaping from summer to
summer
It will help
me to hear me
wondering like that, golden and suspicious
That heart will
be his
Here he will be,
a low bailiff in a
superfluous raiment
My finger maye with caution
Habiliment, habiliment, how very mocking,
superfluous as silver, with a true

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 bough
One will fling
heaven and remorse, where stiles and strategies
and blue-birds will crave air
It will be like pursuing a spotted
schoolroom
Nothing so spotted
as a mistake or an
enemy, blazing a
high mountain
He who will abridge his rain like
a frantic night
Those will be solemn, even though
a chapter will be a brown
stoop
Into an adored
raiment an intimate child will hope
The throat next
Such silver bears no
relation to bee, father,
drum, primer
Naughty as size, purple as
nutriment
Changing caution like snow

Charlie Bertsch

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 Want

Here is a sexton, an
enterprise, a cup, nights for
a stock
It is like
beaming a visitor
Your green shouts
faint and die
What is this? It isn’t judgment,
it isn’t option.
Breast wonders in its true key
Like aching sundowns
Like a patient oratorio
Nothing so cold as a
sum or a
dissembler, wanting an adequate
deficiency
A king is trailed, lack
written like cowardice
Utterly, violet snow rows, like
a morning
It sketches you
want in pails of lack
Then the neck
It pauses by the privations
of the voice
A need of your want

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 bes a wish to
an immortal privation of
lack
What does the
arm do without finger to want?
Is it slow?
While it is broken
The amber pleaders of dread sing you
spangled ways from the alphabet of
the friend
It has no neighbors
Ethereal privations, ethereal numb pains
It is mangled by
an exclaim

Steven Burt

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 The other greens
It touched its nature prancing from name
to name
It’s not a wood, it’s a
stair
The pools exclaimed
Greens may have transformed into breasts
It had no
remorse
Because it heard
you sometime
Rapid as a heart,
presumptuous as a heart
Go
Shaking like a wizard-finger
the diaphanous trees, stirred
by a dead splash, wondered
The finger next
Who did it
sign, daring, coming within its adders?
Your hand strong with delirium
It was seldom a tongue, though
for eons it
has devoured places, reared rumors with its
womb and watched its
eclat sleep
Miss, miss shortness in your

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 lip
There was time
for the different rosemary feeling
its skin along
the wall seams
It could have wondered
Lying like a
wind the homely foreheads, lived
by a quick
end, came

Enid Bagnold

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The burn in
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 which is pa
ssed re·acts

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c⋅ture to
the flame

Philbert Blund

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 Four minimalist quartets
l.l l.3 2.l 2.3

co co ko ko
mi mi mi mi
ni ni ni ni
ti ti ti ti
o o o o

con fi kon fi
tin no tin no
u u
a l.4 a 2.4
ti ti
o co o ko
no mi no mi
ni ni
fi ti fi ti
no o no o

l.2 con 2.2 kon

tin tin
co u ko u
mi a mi a
ni ti ni ti
ti o ti o
o no o no

con fi kon fi
tin no tin no
u u
a a
ti ti
o o
no no

fi fi
no no

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3.l 3.2 3.3 3.4

co co co co
mi mi mi mi
nie nie nie nie
ti ti ti ti
o o o o

con con fi con

tin tin no tin
u u u
a a a
ti ti ti
o o o
no no no

fi fi fi
no no no

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 4.l 4.2 4.3 4.4

co co co co
mi mi mi mi
ni ni ni ni
ti ti ti ti
o o o o

con con fi con

tain tain no tain
u u u
a a a
ti ti ti
o o o
no no no

fi fi fi
no

Leo Bruce

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