Robert Frede Kenter


            Dark Recess      /    FALTER 




The Emergency

The body   burned up magic. 
in taxidermy snow
what showed up at night?
at my window
wolf – raven – butterfly

road treacherous
impassible   trees
in silent      landfill

of tires      scorching scent
smoke

we cough into row of beds,
systemic emergency 
sheltered     torso
in measured   breath
 
metronomic   tapping
a branch   lung alveolus 

your hand, coldly, 
placed to heart’s
patriotic reach 
vitriol victrola 
 disconnect 
 the electricity    water glass 



   Смерти Кладбище

   Смерти Кладбище





    Splash   				                Crossroads 



Manhattan SRO

Leasing rooms
with percentage of
lungs to bugs
No cost soap   just
a classic array of
migratory arrangements
and a diasporic journalist 
in the falling dark 
Manhattan after midnight
tumbling to green carpeted 
floor, someone else whispering, 
you must rise again, 
rise up, my darling.



BLOT and FOUND 


exhibited 
                                   superior efficacy 
animals received 

                          testosterone
Methods
Body 
saw palmetto oil 
                                            infections
with or without                                                                                                                        weight

Abstract


supercritical fluid 
                             samples c
collected
inflammatory

expression 

improving the 

                                               hyperplastic patterns.



    BLUE RUINS                       	   OF THE    		                          
     	WATCH




Conductions folded into polyphonic wonder (New Composition for Five Voices and Orchestra)  
                                             -	for Butch Morris 


1.	Sustainable Ear 

A place to sort through 
               sustainable Ear.
Loud concerto, building momentum.
Metallic bells, the known and unknown.
A strong regular breathing introduces
a heavy pulse. Garden interstices, interior 
mystery, star instruments –  silence
as pause – not applause.



2.  Airport (New Composition)

Inquisitive how the Air is tuned, in
street songs –  the buzz and 
hum the jazz  -- to amplify polyphony 
in an  erratic world. – shocking sound hierarchies –
beyond Vibrations beyond 

Thunderclaps and rivet guns –

To sort  -- idea music – in the strong, 
regular breath of your sleeping 
Metronomic  – calm -- ambulance,

               folded beyond sensory
overload – in cascading

sound fragments, 
               listening to inner nuance, 
The silent part: most beautiful
colour – sunset,  layered

over jackhammers. To new 
ecstasies see – Music – as watery – seas –
then, 
               introduce improvisational 
coda. 



3.	Living Strings

Night of opera – open spaces –

Desert emptiness.   Cicada under

stars. Vague and spectral – 

The tone haunted bridge, solo beat
voicings. 

             Big band more physical
than sun crackles.  Clatter of noise

 Empty tumult.  Coyote tracks – 
               Embraces in  dawn’s thrum 
healing a  horizontal lament.



4. Tone Haunted Melodies 

Imagining Beethoven as crystal spirals around ambient stars. 
Clock face elevator.               Hum to a minor heartbeat.  
Metronome visa.  Traveling –
guitar in the plane trees.  Spectral 
drift     the unreleased mix

Empty the cranked up industrial moon. 



5. Brooklyn  

Peace as music:  shooting comets,  
swirling stars --  blinking cloud formations, 
the sky is building momentum.

Sound fragments, listen for feeling.
 In the silent 
part, a mother is singing
lullabies. 

               Composing and conducting these  most beautiful colours.  Room filters
talk    
               wires, buzzing    Cinema  scores ecstatic.

Robert Frede Kenter is a writer, editor, visual poet & visual artist who lives with ME/FM and whose work is widely published and exhibited. A Pushcart nominee and shortlisted for the Canadian poetry prize (CBC), writing & art appear recently in Watch Your Head, Black Bough, Burning House Press, Cypress, Talking about Strawberries, Olney, Streetcake Magazine, Acropolis, Storms Journal, Anthropocene, Cough, and other venues, online and in print. Robert is publisher/EIC of Toronto-based Ice Floe Press & author of a recent hybrid collection, Audacity of Form (Ice Floe Press). A chapbook of visual poetry, EDEN, was published by Floodlight Editions (2021) & now available from Rare Swan Press (Switzerland/U.K.). Robert has work in The Book of Penteract (Penteract Press, 2022) and forthcoming in Seeing in Tongues (Steel Incisors, 2023) and Recalibrating the Pain Scale (2023-4). Robert was a feature reader in 2020 at The Cheltenham Poetry Festival (U.K.).Twitter: @frede_kenter  IG: @r.f.k.vispocityshuffle

 
 

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