Scripts

1.

light       /       there       is

there                     light              yes

it              is it                     sun

/       no              sun

                                       it       is

it              electric              then       /

morning       out       out

there                     /              electric  

in here       morning       then       shouldn’t

we                            shouldn’t

              no                     yes 

 


2.

ourselves and what we have               /              left

at that              early                                    tomorrow

brings                                      to go down       there

and separate                     ours       from theirs       /       can

be there and do       nothing                                           so

/       for little                            so time              they’ll want it

all back                            to go on              like

this                     /                            ours              from              theirs

 


15.

speaking that other language              again                     should

yield itself                                   each sentence       every

rigorous              one       must lend                     itself       such

a sentence such a       rigor                     looping              whole

concept looping                            logical                     learning

that              to learn importance                      to              keep

looping                     /              that is a very different              a

frozen position for the                     person      who        repeats

simply repeats the              a loop       line of dialogue       remember

rigor      analysis       important       concept that should be written

voice over and over              as though                    /              a voice

can make a                    different              loop              as though

analysis              can make a                                   difference      

Ekleksographia #1

January  2009

Poems

Joel Chace

Joel Chace has published poetry and prose poetry in print and electronic magazines such as 6ix, Tomorrow, Lost and Found Times, Coracle, xStream, Three Candles, 2River View, Joey & the Black Boots, Recursive Angel, and Veer.  He has published more than a dozen print and electronic collections.  New from BlazeVox Books is CLEANING THE MIRROR:  NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, and from Paper Kite Press, MATTER NO MATTER, another  full-length collection.  For many years, Chace has been Poetry Editor for the experimental electronic magazine 5_Trope.