DELIVERANCES

 

by W. Scott Howard

 

 

 

 

External form, contour (that

quality) of the materials—

 

figures geometrical,

objects

 

depending on constant

relations

 

of position or proportionate

distances

 

among all the points composing an outline or exterior surface—

 

a particular variety

of such

 

quiddity impressed

semblance

 

dear image, face in which

may find true rest.

 

 

 

 

Of the fabric, the make (apt

garment) deft gesture—

 

appearances,

bodies spectral

 

minutial (limned

by nature

 

or by art) distinguished by anomalies & contraries—

 

visible aspects of chance

arrangements of parts

 

animal or human

compositions

 

(of words & etc.) beautiful

forms intercalate—

 

manner or course,

story’s meander.

 

 

 

 

Shape-changer shifter altering coverer

scattering cross-sections of an atomic nucleus

 

of a compound an independent formation,

an algebraic factor of an aleatory line

 

predicting the profile (in the expression)

like a comely fitting shape-memory or

 

shape-mistress, a shape-note, one of a series

having heads (of different forms) representing

 

likeness or likelihood, the degrees of a scale

for any shape-smith or jocular corset maker.

 

 

 

A motive or answer with reference

showing signs, becoming efficient

 

positioning with a particular or proper

stance or inclination for a definitive

 

stroke, gathering oneself together &

stepping out as a gift of transference

 

(or dismissal or decree from Fortune

or Fate) granting for one person the wish

 

(delivered of judgment) for one penalty

from punishment appointed, released.

 

 

 

 

Excellence of design, élan

nonesuch, divine

 

errancy, characteristic

habitus—

 

imaginary creature, person

or object animate

 

ruse, otherself ethereal

glimpse askance or guise

 

a disguise (or jest devised) for a random stroll—

 

attitude or condition

of fitness or repair,

 

given ways, rhythms

of the mind, radiant

 

bouquets, verisimilitudes

upstream ribbons.

 

 

 

 

From the beginning, heart

and frame—to strike

 

instances of meaning, origins

afterwards, memory scapes ysaued

 

assayed (sometimes

apprehended) as foretold,

 

corresponding with the One who makes, said of God or Nature—

 

likely alteration, tailoring or carving

out of something else, immaterial

 

non-conformable, liminal thing—

of speech (an example) to figure

 

or set, to produce a remedy

devised (or contrived

 

of the sky) inclined to break

or bring about.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

W. Scott Howard teaches in the Department of English and in the Emergent Digital Practices program at the University of Denver.  He is the founding editor of Reconfigurations: A Journal for Poetics & Poetry / Literature & Culture.  His poetry may be found in Burnside Reader, Diagram, Eccolinguistics, Ekleksographia, Many Mountains Moving, and word for / word.