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Heller Levinson


The Fecundating Perplexity Rotational Cluster


 

 

perplexion broiling in circumlocutional hilt

 

 

mull mulling                 over/upon  upside down inside through

nomenclature brood

rattle rid curing          curative →   to cure   to curate

the culling mood mulls  

                                              milling

milling acquits perplexion

perplexion drives the mill

                                               coinage divining

loin coin

                                       polyphiloprogenitive

moil burble

                                               swill

wend

wand

 

 

 

 

Perplexion queries Befuddle

 

P.  why

B.  so

P.  why so

B.  so why

P.  why with

B.  with what

P.  with so

B.  so what

P.  why so

B.  why with

P.  so with

B.  with why

P.  why

B.  so

 

 

 

 

 

 

the road to perplexity road

 

conundrum potholes                  pressure spikes deflationary evidence tread skinned the axle malfeasance parades

distance is the parade of out-of-reach

reach oils mobility

to clench, then, is to arrive?  to have, to possess, is being-there  ?      the signature

of arrival is obtain, ... maintenance, the footnote

 

how much of

 

place

 

                is

 

                            furniture

...

 

the countenance

 

                                of

 

arrangement

 

 

perplexity is furniture repudiating arrangement

 

the road self-swallowing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Perplexion queries Enquiry

 

P.  can you get me out?

E.  not sure what you mean, ... Burroughs says, “the way in is the way out.”

P.  ... very encouraging.  but that’s the rub ...

E.  ... what?

P.  I can’t identify how I got into this mess, ... there’s no in there ...

E.  I see ... so that’s what brought you to me?

P.  Yes.

E.  Maybe the anti-Burroughs will work.  Get you out, then you’ll know how you got in.

P.  I ‘m game.

E.  But if we can’t specify what brought you in to your condition, we can hardly understand the nature, the full complexion, of your condition.  How can we hope to release, to exit, from that which we can’t identify.

P.  it’s perplexing ...

E.  ... hmmmm ...

P.  you’re stymied to?

E.  what’s wrong with perplexion?

 

 

 

 

smelling perplexion

 

haggle wrangle wrought wrench wrest crunch

                                                                              → crust

carioca

lime

ratchet racket rumbling growl

g   r   u   e   s   o   m   e

                                           → growl

reliquarial roil

rook to pawn the lockout looks-out

 

Around 1065 Shen Kuo wrote about the assembly methods for swords:  ‘Ancient people use chi kang, (combined steel), for the edge, and jou thieh (soft iron) for the back, otherwise it would often break. Too strong a weapon will cut and destroy its own edge; that is why it is advisable to use nothing but combined steel.’

 

flavor through hand,

the tongue’s absenteeism preserved in balladic form

 

 

 

 

how much of

 

perplexity

 

                          is

r e s i d u e ...

...

r  e  l  u  c  t  a  n  c  e  s

c    o   n    s    i    d    e    r    e    d

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

perplexion in mood indigo

 

dizzying complex swelter          

                                                sessilia

                      jib jibes            

irascible raze

gut boatswain

expiration capsize

theology passing for alteration

the hawk spies its eyeball on the striking floor

knows to reevaluate leasing terms

temporality –

neutered abatement --

hatches exits

hastens passage

departures

reeling

in

administrative loot

 

 






Heller Levinson lives in NYC where he studies animal behavior. He has published in over a hundred journals and magazines including Sulfur, Jacket, Hunger, Talisman, First Intensity, Laurel Review, Omega, The Wandering Hermit, Fire (U.K), Tears in the Fence (U.K.), Alligatorzine, Counterexample Poetics, The Jivin' Ladybug, Moria, Woodcoin, Mad Hatter Review, etc. His publication, Smelling Mary (Howling Dog Press, 2008), was nominated for both the Pulitzer Prize and the Griffin Prize. Black Widow Press will be publishing his from stone this running in 2011. Additionally, he is the originator of Hinge Theory. Please visit www.hellerlevinson for more information.


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