Scott Keeney


On Meeting Aram Saroyan



dint

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Comic Black Furnace (Rothko Suite)

Untitled, 1949 arrested yellow folder big black block exhausting green avenue No. 10, 1950 wired purple space shadow mustard mattress picket gray fence White Center, 1950 lucid pumpkin fire flying charcoal baton chubby fandango come-on No. 2, 1951 apple green grimace very seashell band-aid livid bacon strip Untitled [Blue, Green, and Brown], 1952 underground indigo nightscape swift phthalocyanine slide braided brick collapse Untitled, 1953 creepy magenta hammer natural black sledge flaming amber awareness Untitled (Seagram Mural sketch), 1959 masked maroon seeing catalog orange threshold vast orange limitations No. 14, 1960 recombinant tangelo pi hospital twilight genome stellar eggplant relapse No. 4, 1964 period black amplifier lab chocolate wag no lightning anymore Untitled, 1968 quantum plum polarity quasi-religious gray streets open-casket burgundy hug

Untitled, 1953 painted orange paper comic black furnace liquid almond fire Untitled, 1969 scaleable seal temper windswept ochre eyelids untapped canvas frame Untitled, 1969 transparent slate walk washed-out ladyslipper hillside invasive sienna fringe Orange and Tan, 1954 fabulous orange blouse tight tan skirt contrapposto brown swoon Hierarchical Birds, 1944 abraded Byzantium sky cardboard copper eagle illuminated cornflower river-bottom Number 7, 1947/1948 Winter’s red Alaska scattered orange square concatenated salmon splatter Untitled, 1945 fortunate gray matter buffalo fog onion swamp black tangle No. 17 [or] No. 15, 1949 camped red ascension the black cream exact red attendance No. 8, 1949 nude white nimbus swayed brown suede red within red Untitled, 1949 serpent red scribble plastic white heart gated blue laugh-riot

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Polaroids

                for Bill Keckler

Pigeon lipstick—
reversible head—
sunset neck.

Abandoned beard
dwelling in
the pussy willows.

Half-open window
surrounded by flowers—
a loose tooth

of chipped paint.
Irrational crane—
winged copper water.

There is rain
and there is the flavor
of rain.



Good Scream

Walking around The Times
I’m not spinning stories
questions like to be
esoteric years of effort
a silver whip of
relationship 
                    and total devotion

conflict’s wander
                              to it

I’ve been the first
I’ve been in part
and have the last

I’ve been physical notions
harsh muscles of etcetera

Imagine the Ring of day
time figured
                    weight eliminated
in love at length
the hand and strength
like videos with fighters
the way electricity arms

Who needs to camera?
I hover around the sunshine.

flat-out juice
trains literally puke hell

impoverished bronze
comprehensive numbers
high paid Thursday
middleweight drama

nationalistic yoga
surprised on a primal level

overpowered afterwards

my Kali eyeballs
everyone knows 
whew

Untitled (White and Black)

a dozen blank

returns the space

for the poem

Besides Otoliths, Scott Keeney's work has appeared in Columbia Poetry Review, Court Green, Everyday Genius, Failbetter, Gobbet, Juked, Mudlark, Reconfigurations, Shampoo, Tinge, and Truck, with many elsewhere. A limited edition, Sappho Does Hay(na)ku, was published in 2008.

 
 
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