from Hypnopompic Diaries
Steve Carll
in wintery dissolution
a summarized opportunity’s
obnoxious curtailment
awaits its substrate
fantastic debacle
of aggrandized piracy
you’ve organized society’s
basic contagion
12/30/2021
squeamish interjection
bogarts that thing
list to port
the requisite hormonal imposter
awakens the kraken
arcturean crush assembler
replicates dynastic compulsion engine
per basic magellanic contrast
forgetful motorway indignity
blow through kept time’s inflection
point
on steam harvested
from the prior
12/31/2021
sedition and distraction
myopic vacation and division
1/9/2022
gelatin visionary enclave improves
surrendered dormancy advances
1/15/2022
malaprop engine roaring
to the wrong-way running quicksilver
1/17/2022
Steve Carll lives with his family in Arcata, California. His books include Tracheal Centrifuge (Factory School, 2006), Tao Drops, I Change (with Bill Marsh, Subpress, 2004), Trace a Moment’s Closure For Clues (Logodaedalus, 1996), and Sincerity Loops (Bathysphere, 1995). His work has recently appeared in Otoliths, WCP Magazine and SurVision. From 1988-1998, he edited the literary journal Antenym. Performance video of most of his poetry from 1991 to the present can be found at https://www.youtube.com/@stevecarll/videos.