Tuesday poem #43 : Adeena Karasick : With Asura

With asura hath woman a hoarder of giddy tomes

breached locs. cut mouthy and ill-fitting

where dizzy sign’s makeover  re-phrased

with asura

hath woman a tainted parody of her arched will

harpies, floosies

where origin receiveth massage

and the shallow is intrajected by phissin’,

with asura

seeth woman’s vagabond zigzag, her errs and kinky lines

écriture is made to injure and to live in

and it is made to be salient with slurry quixotics

with asura, slink against the naughty denouement,

is thy cred ever more than stalwart gags

is thy misreading daring as precipice,

with mounting treats, strong flavours

with asura the lines grow thick

with asura is curled re-creations

where woman can mine, re-sited for indwelling.

Sewn scattered, coated with

fever ripped by her ludic moor

WITH ASURA

A wooly complex of meerkats

heaped bling, the domain of asura

Asura is an amorous terain, asura

A bonny kneading of the monad’s flan

and steeped with the spinner’s cunning. Perky borrowings

gamed by asura

Ducky kudos gamed by asura

A Pappardelle fracas of swanny bells; by asura

And salsa columns tainted

Gamed by asura, gelled relics, alcoves; came ambrosial phonemes,

Came the kitch of recast stains signs: altered phrases

By asura sauntering trophy memes

By asura, scented hilarity,

Asura wresteth the va-jazzled

It wresteth the rift and the riffing grafts and

It gnaweth the thread of all that blooms

It burneth to weave bold patterns;

A sewer of hottie contours by asura; crammed with moist avoidance, embroiled

Memory fingering Asemia

Asura sleuths, shouldered by whim

And chafes like hungry masks, recruiting

It hath brought pulsing to breed, rife

battling the languerous grid and the bridled gloom

COUNTER RANT: TWIRLY

wrought with horstext for Elusive

Courses a re-set banquet

all beset with asura.

Adeena Karasick is a poet, cultural theorist, media artist and the critically acclaimed author of seven books of poetry and poetic theory. She is currently Professor of Pop Culture and Media Theory at Fordham University in New York. Writing at the intersection of Conceptualism and neo-Fluxus performatics, her urban, Jewish feminist mashups have been described as “electricity in language” (Nicole Brossard) and noted for its “cross-fertilization of punning and knowing, theatre and theory” (Charles Bernstein) "a twined virtuosity of mind and ear which leaves the reader deliciously lost in Karasick's signature “syllabic labyrinth” (Craig Dworkin).

the Tuesday poem is curated by rob mclennan