

creole resting 
place
stars awash in river
moon hanging bright & listless
above tenement
clawing thru the chain-link of 
too many vacant lots wired 
like circles
 
vast units of entertainment
colored flowers on 
wallshirts
obvious secretions lost 
in trumpet
venturing out toward e-motion
this is what "all-stars" means
casa elegancy asac-gleance
all stars shine / outcome(d)
sparks 
 
night has become a city without margins
at the height of the heat of some renaissance
on harlem's edge
 
there is no such thing as stop(ped) motion
shouting innocence usurped unsurprising
sorely missed
heat flows chill my neck 
& black shirted trumpeter wipes his brow
with a blood red cloth
moon awash in river of candleblues
earth colors piercing our ears
saxophony extraordinary
as 2 tenors pronounce every microscopic
sound speck
every range of fuckoff & nearer
pushed into the stoodup
blowing being catalyst 
immediately bordered by projections
 
this is truly a war of peace  
for instance:
this is event to the head
then deeper into sweet dessert 
cracked up & dark moving thru 
the face of situation
piano falling softly thru a room 
awash with faces
density of a late dying summer night
wired like circles
moon 
haven of elegance 
white keys depressed 
in melancholic conviction
unequivocally messing 
with trigger 
quick emotional struggle
weapons of peace
contrabass attacking the whatnots 
of subtleness
coinciding struggles
cultural quantums steadily
drummed into us
freaky epiphanies situated in
no-man's-land
resources within a vast expanse of
he's & she's
& the narrower spaces that humility
& pointing towards advance
exactly brings
 
SHOOT ME?
 
here even the furniture runs
excitedly 
roamers unleashed -
i'm right up front with 
         the horns
 
if god had wanted me to stay home 
  tonight
    "he" would have found a way
                    to do so.

enters
not so much as
itself
but as sparks burs
ting forth as they exting
uish
with a shared caution
baring left then
right
in accordance w/body's
movement
6:02 pm
summery oct.
day
by the 
river
who is it that sd.
what most of us no longer
remember?
it's a moving thing
evening
sparks of fish-light lying
boys caressing
shadows jogging
not reaching
proper lowpoint between
structures
moving south
again
boy's hand stroking genitals
beneath cloth
kayaks rippling toward
pier
when i was young
evening always had its 
good side
despite my ignorances
  
this sun masterful from this chair
warranting
2 pairs of spectacles from
my pocket
near viewing / far viewing
still so much to 
learn
falling without sound
evening
water
railing
ending days / happy days
what makes a man?

              1.
located sources
    imperial  televs 
          professional workers
               resume
                    spring – a build up
       slide/ valve stretches
                     calling our selves stresses
              almost essentially centuries 
           tried & apart(h)e(i)d periods here
               separatum from enslavement 
                    the many whittled colors robbed friends 
                            essentially
                mussered val(v)ue  hook by hook in/deeds
                      kinship – any body’s blown familiar
                          unaccustomed springing to extent
                                  parts stresses periods ends l’avement 
          we are different & paper-read traders
                          understated updates
           understood referred psychability available(s)
                        doesn’t have to be done so
                              bone registered openness 
        all the stones right for a slipping back
                        team supported stop densitorium
                   what is honest brought to life – a musser
                            i knew right there – a musser
              plunkt the regrund  sensitivity to the depth of 'merica
                      seeking assessments gone-or-geous sonorities
                              playerful fractured removal of melody
                                       scratch it & scratchit
                       a musser urk morph difference removed live
                             unison cord broke musexplitives 
                                    spoke-hum delturized 
                              extent/ed mid-ranging pounded sleepwalker
                                     ult desun end sahray merci.
                                                 2.
              page turned
                          upside down
                               scored unblindness
                                       charm / wit
                          wisdom / wild restraint
              carnival barker repeats over & over again
                       mental  sat tie(d) mental 
                faster  faster   up / down 
                      intervals of humor / laughing
                                   grand monocled sir laugh me
                          splayed / splintered into singular tongues
                                     what can possibly come out of fractured speech(es)?
                                         how many revolutions are created by sound?
                                                 musser the gentle beauty spilled
                                                     the chao(h)s caused this sleeper to awake.
Steven Dalachinsky was born in Brooklyn, New York sometime after the last Big War and before lots of useless little wars...he has been writing poetry since before then and has always...he is basically self-taught...his great loves and influences are the Beats, Blake, Kafka, Camus, Harpo, surreal and abstract painting and music......especially jazz and so-called "Avante Guarde" or "FREE" jazz. Two key elements in his poetry are spontaneity and the idea of transformation rather than description with a preference toward non-linear, non-narrative thought. He resides in Manhattan where he has lived for the past 30 years.






















