DEVIL-FICTIONS

LANCE PHILLIPS

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Devil-Fictions
by Lance Phillips
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DEVIL-FICTIONS
For Kelly
Devil-Fictions
Any Proportion Includes Anachronistic Thinking
Slurred with Prophecy

Literal shaft of light anchored by left ear.

Gagging becomes a blossoming face can’t help.

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The Apportioning Fates

“Wasp stitch against glass,”

As long as I think this enabled language
Nothing I tell could mean more.

Shedding birds from air is hush modulated.

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Scry

1. The little man of the eye.

2. Mirrors worn at small of the back are direct equivalent of poems.
3. Catoptromancy.
4. From the cropped grass one has it, from eucalyptus and lavender and pansy,
the future is a vying for significant terms for the present.
5. Cricket across floor of the kitchen.
6. Scrying is a wonder. Their little nails smeared with fat, “Boys alert me to any
ghostly images.”
7. One or two blinded with looking to have purchase on the future is a pittance.
8. Left so that the window, by my take, achieves neutralization of itself.
9. Scrying is every bit an object as glass or mounded drops.
10. An ear cropped and what, what.
11. One counters risk as a means of bringing the face into guise.

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Fact-Romances

“You describe right hand cupped, with glass shards and one blood-bead (field
& sun). You value that kind of pretext.”

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Malapropism

Jays overclock that; the Furies from cattails.

Beginning a physical dump of memory; having attracted such attention what is the
ornament of one’s walk?
I—well, there is a partition in recognizing one draws an acceptable comparison
between the wrens at the feeder and a certain largesse toward which one wrings one’s
hands in the manner of creating a sphere. Tug; specificity thumb adds to distorting
the mouth. Custodial.
One addresses as protection the winged ants spaced across the garage wall.
Any manner of solitude requiring the dissolution of the human form—I can’t expect
to keep saying these things and, in the end, know what it is I’m talking about.
One calls the attention to a physical person and it passes; daemon, surely the shadow
on the street.
I am repeating myself by relaying the Natural world.
What can one take beyond the method: orange drop cord as simply a circle around the
neck?
BEAR IT BY WONDERS AND CEASE WITH THE HANDS, A WINK ONE
HARBORS.
What is the appropriate condition to mount against talk, hair held taut?
Morphography, one gleans apple from the kitchen air, sharp, attaching information to
the body one tends the body?
I cannot expect
to keep saying these things and know what repulsion that crow, that yellow line
constitute.

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Form of the novel; or Tondo

An idleness or as one thinks of it the glass survivable

& mimic which dead

Thru pinch intimately red tulips

Statement on that turncoat level

Doesn’t it privy such, their eyelashes touch, renderings

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Prose

1.
Welts to eyelids applied

2.
Would have preferred thieving moths

4.
Wind applied to skin as salve

5.
Re-weaving thrushes made for opposite trees

In a clearing, sudden and left, fawn startled into poplars

It stopped when it was invisible

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Hellebore
Starts

Smell my lips, pomegranate bee’s wax

Insert instruction for neurosis,
motion for hovering table
as blow to imagining what state the kiss is in

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Circuli

One discerns five petals

and the hand is beautifully
swollen, digits thick as ropes
and the skin’s sheen’s so near
to reflective, and the fantasy is marauding.

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A Form

1. Narrativity based upon syntax, upon symptoms of the texts.

2. For instance the motion of the people hovers about their glasses.
3. Mass loads.
4. Sparrow as projection of death masks the asphalt and bright nails around.
5. Maple leaf, a safer sexual edge to the hand, panel made sheer in the sun.
6. Scrotum pulled taut; shrill and rented crickets.
7. A little bloodier than I’d like. Rhythmic, from the blossom, slap setting, both
monarchs lift, the time.
8. Scowl of, ancillary to hibiscus and lily, spiderlings.
9. Glass panel from which dog retreats.
10. What one calls exaggeration of place.
11. Ann and John Henderson; alliterative trees and moon light.
12. Proclivity to arraign the monstrous; one’s fingers cavern away.
13. Subtle effect of sound, rain segmented over frame of her glasses, upon name and
form.
14. It is anatomically applicable, black fly accentuates her foot’s arch, the union of
bodies.
15. The hairs one remembers.
16. Vivid this fist made against one’s necklace.
17. Pomegranate, lips, the partisan way.
18. Bites about one’s face, fingers slick.
19. One’s delusional notion of her past.
20. Oaks tinged with brown, then red, while retaining a green center as a paranoid
image.
21. Killed mercury; called swooned upon heating past liquidity.

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22. If you do not know it is an eye.
23. One can’t know what to think.
24. Within the sexual image jealousy, curiosity and ownership; tops the security
camera brother crow.
25. To escape a trampling, Method B, their wings at the slightest pressure detach.
26. Crows black the plain; duration their raucous complaint.
27. Outside the context of me.
28. The dewy and matted eyes; I will be returned to my journey.
29. Him, he is just a body; him.
30. Madras.
31. Nine symbolic flowers: holding, embracing, kissing, touching, visualizing, seeing,
sucking, penetrating, meditating.
32. Nine human skulls as a platform.
33. In my mind start equals star, on occasion.
34. One moves, from the warm cloth, her face.
35. Parallelism.
36. Crow + stop sign; the transformative figure one argues.
37. Who she has touched and has touched her. Hand + pubis, + lip.
38. It is according to what one meant. The impatiens are frozen, stock and bud,
against the house.
39. Wanting touch as an instrumental figure in one’s life.
40. Their taste is altered by them; salty.
41. What is the question?
42. Glowering.
43. Shape of the word chin proffered; lips into the thermometer pout.
44. Only person I’ve ever trusted.
45. The weakness one feels is it a moral weakness?

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