Tom Beckett


A Desultory Improvisation
     for Jordan Stempleman


Art's surrogates engineer the interposition

Of general templates between audience

And object.


I'm not an optimistic person.

I propose to adhere

To an image of disaggregation.


Language extends in time.

Experience, though, is recessive.

Shadows become residues.


Crushing an Object

Coupling with an Idea

Abstraction makes wine.


Taxing us with its axioms

Experiment's "pungent company"

Is in the house.




Tom Beckett publishes interviews with poets at his blog, e-x-c-h-a-n-g-e-v-a-l-u-e-s. His volume of Selected Poems, Unprotected Texts, is slated for publication by Meritage Press later this year. He lives in Kent, Ohio.

 
 
 
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