Steve Timm
from Rule of Composition
Steve Timm's most recent book is Un storia (BlazeVOX, 2010). He teaches English as a second language at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the U.S.
He writes: "(The poems above) are from a work called Rule of Composition, which is a collection of 100 ekphrastic poems done while listening to the Cecil Taylor Feel Trio's 2 Ts for a Lovely T, a ten-CD set which I went through ten times. These poems are from the seventh listening. They were improvisations, with very little editing afterward."
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from Rule of Composition
1 “Epicritic (Pertaining to Cutaneous Sensitivity)” (42:30)
So they we was flyngin goatcoal migs
lips a-shred cigs doilying flups and caterwolfs
joy akuzas meander thralls toot thats
splattern meaguer theser toxinsural timers
orthid octs parapraxic patamastrices
mish trees affal balloom
no whatter thems tremble in the site of multívalence
lymph in the fearosphor
ligids i’ the B-plam
the frester apothetizers their are writher rue the ghoul pose
conchorto mangiolahand astomish mirtue
mengine of the gooberatchet
the sleever of mindiot dearth nackertia
craftal hoem the vergy emergy we via felloat
from clobberminted gonorrhalgics to and scorpials
stedgeholers to encryptleens that’s woes off than inservordunant
calmumny reprayal mortuwary pronged as cure one
thendeville allegeslate stammergod hammerglot
givenal iljugutal larvit preencomium cripes
what the sheep shat
what the shitshine addaubs to
dazzerbanjo noir somefing a talk a i wanna lose my time to get it
tempo pismo beach dairy
ridem academeanta
corvents of zazzaphrenes
dasual ligit erritorian tympanelles and chantarones capsoftery deblight
thatter wed the hostauce
Al Fatenya yer can do i what of ya
recent axes deplorablize the near vitable tersenry of hack you tool
intolatry paws the risary flaplaughabel leverals unsheared off
sure hat some remove
he blurt ofter shoust
fecality fecality fecality croned the fauxtografite
yedded junda chemp tring
bibble! tand! prites!
sexual colonieze fragment-me-nuts spited with tungem
a granamortized crutchsured grabule of clowt
beg winds annausentia
your dual and end them
that would flave a seeble fatib
omarada drawling yoneh pout
who’ll haul your ules
hoof hovely hell
shovenly mired nares of blunds bluents
andly floatsy nambia Brabria Rossa
bony fine dullass
sweck furtain cowhiles
symbol bas dovedience
rum dole police
slig mortif
scall waneture the oldest finiest unto
<track 2> (10:48)
Quellsian marsque with scrubba tansk
zeal-bes shawarm theminy striangers fronds the like
caress the pon safting the tendiggles of knead
mucical muckusment
shtow the suffy theo door
shoosheen the ricoshay derver’s stealth
we’re pro-feedural heers and sheites
usfule theyimicists semblites tall
asshamackle in junghurry hall
we pretexen a sharèdly
da hoc mortimerch disuary sigli moanch tweary yined
off to minds we arny sewls
2 “Peduncle (The Support of an Inflorescence)” (43:32)
That’s right horn comblemmed stamigma
at treble stancth ablock deadth and brebth
the dreathèdfuls
these are blankinsons enfermille
sodjourn wreckophone
idiophanous trillery
that’s darken they are darker than they are
waveslew sluige gorlge
scaldric corroddery spanser is the does they dazzert
hausa rune transvermal lific wrestlate
taser lake suplash purital gongssiere thwactal vinditch
segregirly femance talonscoot halant shivler
coalhaust grinamen fórdive encher
spec on pheradural mountumen croupediance showel
gris scrowled mity tectones aggleum pyry purplative
envyone’s a senakeor
meaty rights coladded in treaty tights?
ferampup pervadenture my sands what stars arth
forciles in the labrial traptids gonging mia viamioose as’d thoughngt
swoe me is allahs and all-lackatooey
sodliers secrounted kaffiry kilimentine
the doughter moot the juictic the plec stir innum
smortherner towarth rapatuier denim rungtiled chonkey
brayhewal azmenuth perpavore the polypso fornce denalwies comfs strued
there was a long that way a nake appining floor to filuel
whomed defile
lexeauze in áccrux geminy
licks mergs oncotensilly
offgone libriquiem for a hod squander
lumpenruptus vaticover
rapatatatuial sile seater dennyslant
race and hair blued belialative crossmancy
these are the very digs
theirs the voluntary atsoundishmings
that oxify the carbine jooters
and the monkeel axaxines
the frommentery geal afoot tombrent instegument
greckonal dunes gaffeted kaslunk glike ’t orn’t acknowled
gno men glue churnsey way
achooer inmeant accreant sclerient
drizzle drimes a druse zen prie tsarginct
dour wing of velvetution
invalvable striatamates we aye o amover i louie ya
idon ever lieu ye
slow stead fast
so i can each you
tudge carse lipple flond havn
giddabel smudjurement rinds as flonse
rilly rever rankstens the cawbons devaluing teencèd wail
waynems the macen jarry
rite yuri’s ulbu twout messide
stemplodder boogie donc
siccup crowd veneer
vanerial pureein
thasms of flesh ma ’nd blook no asthms
say ter say ial say ary
stay error
i’d’a voya idago pote bacchal ear
topends too
quay not, queue-eyened jumpsticks
the laverls the folksblend ladely hodes twaint
3 “Logozo Scampers (Tortoise)” (42:07)
Glocken shpilgas gunts the mortem
and well goddamnify am not flyowning
skeeger rustics platten forsts tuffual
what’sn’ts idenscent
purgeal nialers
kilns ache ferment stound
grin stent bwiled convercial truents baled eavers
curfuciacles that’s originens annuncy feraliede
sad gazatte of farragonal quant
fiddly mendier sterxes
sugurantial copenstakes mensdark mowillow flicker stemt
sags the slongue cheece twong
diggerelles of insanity of swondles dealite
wiccan corpe cooeen
manxwild the culingdar fepples de plage
beacherday flounted perm thirst yay tampler
sotto clockturinal i gnow where my kindser and sophercue too
orlue jackened laundren chorer shawl shender blenneton board
this juice tin
that swale fork
breather spartan time
glunder grails and broil your helid hearlets
swinksa voramoosh mogged earens
demisamokoan silends
burdenal phorists fell reint the dunes tanks-belowed
that was deathings in scrows and scarrens
plain pantings and unwounds
nonsical earlings scrattling to the sheen a sing of emits
choruds malagasian fangasies
gamma sadcar murals striant of stranglen fruiteries
vivalotion neary fleerite the undane and mondostruous
collocations in eightyeights news speciels
what a coin of kinliness the atclimb’s
blittle mitteny streach out from voresona
prescionantal bedouate preshan number of hide anguine wiles
heart’s vaginance
thrown stowlen truling vanitage thrievering prickapique
pocketcopter capitule moantaindy maintones
middleminded malagers cruelwhile parry on
fronting they don’t know the names of whom &
why did that make too much sense
the fedural gynornament foreposhed a wordensome longed then
drisual bestractive uncureable axiomas of struth
they cannot face this musicular daredo sexas cogeplows
opearences unceive
sensile fractals at tips of brawnules
scaldfinger godflingular manions
thery musi heoretics
the world played plain
these
thenscythicals to obey
thosens the bad t’s t’ abbey
what Ida Bleefer’d air and diddoes
maestrally syzygantly as a forest fever
hat shoes coat diz or like
the xith side of everystreet yuza
gwongs a folk usses
speweaken whirrs
reworsenals to the nary
the haggles in a breath
copencare scopenscare denialmurk denailhead
unhedgeable piano
no blasé in glory
so blazed a anvil answer a stiruppelodial
the mindle ear forth
4 “Owele Standing (Small Bird)” (46:16)
What’s the happen wow
gene broom teehassle omniquoscient inventery
staken yelds galash lankuid squalid den plasmsest
tina’s burroque queel ashremble
derivilliant of mirr
straggle dounce of longesse stave aloe, Hope Allergiance
toggle glowgle oggule irremissual dwindle thrall
hellrole, Gene Whiskey
am i aspire corrightly, Cleft Boozom
miso profulous feelicks forelike edgeminder
sconding two ones fiddled with entity cared
glove scan kaffirms
gigant lames an heegase zymen claturatura
aria rouge tad imple xensuous tacturge
nib by neb by nob and knob nub
newel bronze at steeple prikes
hello and harpty Girdsdy what’ll you be
bridchawlers splayonimus
how cog a q, vince cockwater
how suet dizzound
wadded echo dronian proofed against
oddthangle brayer seraing rexcuse a sigh recause ilovery une plicks theyen spluckdumb
slong, tader spoot, hops’ll turnock dual yeeedles of antocifrix
sail on, Ienne Ressknot
the my people i remede heal lex came
the very toes i had steep to teas
howdy refer hodi else
sway willy elkity habber zapama
swing verdiations swing
max me a max
crotch me a scorch
soaky icon vertz the viso
revice the gratchels
porator the grabbed age of taleverts
envery tip hocracketed to the covenence hover clingant
thwacks the airwades sober eith
todays chinase turn
myzeneen the ditherane slitheroons
per beechuck bill iaint but naryin ideer boust nuttin
so sing inner angles quore and whygirled knot
poof addler suggendle vie wists
vastromony suedes me juffingly
prut streen and rocka coozerdoo
assay sad bove
foreign dinch sedimine
clamical scriance plore bipaths devoluved at thence deprece
scorn then say sashayer do tell?
crackle by boons, yuban hlads and cussard chuns
gas that converts everyone
day grease in the eye
spackle hues inhearted
Ida Cobble deedin’
endiff ’t is my name stillette’s stilged asseny
bremace emblemshaed ebbility, squant dabbler
like the boidesque
what if someone listened
tend to hume dies’s pique
the tardy tomb i’m pradling
the redurned domicidal
foecourse these are quettings
doughy loo lie wanebearings
as jag karaoke oncèd
5 “Pineal (Black Dot)” (41:35)
Even ceteris partybus isn’cht surplotted when they’re not
freak sakes viender trillial swives comparsion’s mittel gnarm in swames
barometer reddens per-thus cronch crounch caroonth
thigh lather sterocle blamdish colondraint
searpent yeak skeiners off goaded
hello ploidy doidy polish foiced flunguider
slurpots of cantive sadthirst gonismy
the stery suffar sithits
zeal fare tropangulic syrumph coma torch
deve aya sutster de overdy re-everence
ingdel igginled parastammeter-psyted end suttested
wheredy lesions gloo to whisper in a ilosh
cocation lolation egg wasian mood fucket
spriglative purslane vooture tawng in a coelclamp
coella feasued nazpania yorsted
what a duzzelast betraster ovanation gheegleeing fuñuels
wakedown trellis colock desearthly blovens gath-a-wee abstrudeal
antsermoma tiered sappert
do verative evilate laxly ornts seculude ivical zundrance
sparsions dijestus
merecy spawnital others eat
gwan flaunch pestile bianonal sab mourds drougged into reglock
sone ripe stremminberry wasical succulines alsavus moanjuicity
vray chinners nouns endower wreets righks
why enknot the brittiest versus wervered sea
(wanklean tarot eggon)
edgerny cursus cottons on dadada
plexus leapsticked sterene atyred to wallowpe spewmell
fraultid ictamony di-eyears i handser gawken tunother
andzy bradenter oopsies quansile bee
ping of lunge abscessant falsuant
glase ath-horn kneedle at all
soundimenstrual churlingy
clonying splastics whadeye nottle ya
whetten up the wagerheightches sooeyana
piges of tongs sweevillets of rison
planellates potaint furome
swims of wimmages durueling one’s natuve senzes
zualty agrints zealth frighders feelonking untheir weigh du motstice
wall i wanshed for was moisturice remotstruances
Steve Timm's most recent book is Un storia (BlazeVOX, 2010). He teaches English as a second language at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the U.S.
He writes: "(The poems above) are from a work called Rule of Composition, which is a collection of 100 ekphrastic poems done while listening to the Cecil Taylor Feel Trio's 2 Ts for a Lovely T, a ten-CD set which I went through ten times. These poems are from the seventh listening. They were improvisations, with very little editing afterward."
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