pop UP poetry

2008-02-12T08:59:00.000-05:00

hidden travels over
Ice/Land

The story of PÁLL BJÖRNSSON

by Christopher Tiefel

a character or impression

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PÁLL BJÖRNSSON was not stuck, though he felt

as if seasons would never change.

monday

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The emotional resonance of a day
resting on its name.

skipping

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School seemed senseless. Why the
need for such structures?

homework

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Routines to guide thoughts. The same books
everyone else reads & eats need to
be re read again.

sandwich

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a door with a bell & service. Around
food people are built

built

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stories shared over soup. Eye
contact.

matches

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the beginnings of a thaw.

thaw

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outside it was still frozen. but her
hands melt everything.

moment/metaphor

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sun shadows play over
wood grained waves
shifting in shape
& colour &
direction bending
into each other

margin

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a map
with points to see. Places change
people.
aaaaaaa& plans.

automobile

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They took a taxi (his uncle owned a cab)
& drove

away from

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An avalanche could destroy everything

destroy

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haven’t all these words
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa (now cloaked in metaphor)
already buried & held meaning?

meaning?

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the purpose is
the same:

to escape.

lawn/lost

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or: to encapsulate feeling more.

iceland

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a story within a story
or an island,

loosely connected.

folds

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when no one
reads work(d)s

(highlite the spaces between
with your curser)

sometimes Pall Bjornsson is it a poem
leaves secret words at all?

story

2008-02-11T14:42:00.001-05:00

To operate PÁLL's Icelandic Adventure

start here

& only click
last linked words*

hidden in ice other words & worlds
of which PÁLL broke with his
silver flying machine--the ice Zephyr--&
flew to places of pure possibility

all because of the love he found at the rest stop *Except in homework
click on eats
to move in
psuedo-continuity
until lawn/lost
where the whole show
branches out.

because of PÁLL's aforementioned ice Zephyr (a showing
[rather then telling] of PÁLL escaping
his routines &
seeing the greater
world).

elections & such

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Are poems democratic?

(does this structure
lead to such notions?)

counting

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the side scroll or non-
navigation bar is
an abecedarius

having little to actually
do with anything (subjective)
(more snow falling)

then working
in form
& creating order.

rainy

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to build a poem
that keeps
building itself

a what if

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even if it is
written in form

& takes this
abstraction down to

the particular to
make metaphor, meaning, capture emotion?

the end

2008-02-11T14:35:00.001-05:00

perhaps a place to stop reading

but thoughts
remain (or erase)
in your head
(& on hard driver)

& carry on

title

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a terrible wanting for
containment

because poems should be
pretty & small

held formal objects
that never shift

or change shape
or meaning.

So then
this is not poetry?

friday

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during dreaming
each narrative line

folds into another

sunshine

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a system of
drafts upon drafts:

until it all blends
one warm
friday
of feeling

heating your skin

nothing

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images increase traffic

leafs

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a pile of words

to remember the season before

aaaaaa(lnk/lns

tht

aaaaaanvr

aaaaaawht

thyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa i / i e

aaaaaamn)

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa e e

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa a

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaae

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ea

signals

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(signals,
or space between the light
and leafs)

сигналы

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сигналы,
или пространства между свет
и листает

autumn sweater

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slip away aaaaaaaaaaaaa(wouldn't that
be better)

me with nothing to sy

city

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eclipsing the sky

so much mess

(the temperature is several degrees warmer)

the immensity of the net work

becomes overwhelming

(words are found within words)

litter is scattered

homes are made in the cracks

(break outside an act to define)

an editor is needed

to clean contexts

(please polish the work)

& place.

sardine

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people come in
packages.

new

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daily (close enough to daily, rather regular production & if there is a lull in words extensive archives & links) dose of contemporary poetic thinking.

& then a return to wrk.

dropped

2008-02-09T12:31:00.000-05:00

"How was your day?"

"fine."

"Well what did you do?"

"nothing."

"Oh."

"nothing is new here. What did you do?"

"Well,

jelly

2008-02-09T12:25:00.000-05:00

words can't be
contained. They slip out of
backpacks, across pages, &
break out of poems.

machines

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originally a pursuit of the small things

to envelope life.

Each poem is an assemblage of others, each former object builds with its other words to create connections of many small moving parts working (together? / counterpoised?) to make meaning?

Most often not saying anything

because search techniques

do not pull the broken work(d)s together.

suburbs

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a reliance on form.

narrative

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after walking or
building suburbs.

when

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a day of the week
with a sky
folding back on
itself
connects
hills & homes.

sidebar

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like a city.
or narrative.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaa explication comes
aaaaaaaaaaaaaa in the form
aaaaaaaaaaaaaa of caffinated drinks
aaaaaaaaaaaaaa home brewed leafs
steeped in time
alone.

Photoshop

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Backpacks, a pink flamingo, a headless doll, old chairs, colanders, boxes of books, a shower, an LP, breasts, coffee, a bell on the door, matches, the proper paperwork, sidebars, typewriters, wheelbarrows, homework, fishbowl, toner, kettle, farm implements, maps, calenders, fingernails, et cetera, objects, spoon, stars, amplifier, printer, stuffed bear, a bologna sandwich, vacuum, pill bottles, a bridge, a tennis court, a picture frame, an eight ball, oranges, computer, car starter, greeting card, an aquarium, Photoshop, a statue, binder, guitar, magnet, Zephyer, hammer, dock, net, a Grecian urn, a rose, a jug of wine, sixteen candles, speakers, keyboard, M&M's,

how many persons
handle your objects
(or images of objects)

before they reach (meaning)

you?

sleep

2008-02-07T18:16:00.000-05:00

a system of counting, arrangement
herding time into containers
links, listening, breathing

pulled together
two as one

always

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too loop back
on itself.

because sleep.

know

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context, pulled & pushed
it is certain that moments slip

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa /pasta & cheese bread on hot dog buns
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa the Tuesday night & candles blown out
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa in a prefall breeze/

to an utterly, forgettable degree.

see

2008-02-06T14:41:00.000-05:00

birds bend in navigation

original slogan

2008-02-06T14:26:00.000-05:00

Make poetry alive again. Its not just frail characters on a page--its vivid living word machines that should be spread. Advertising is invading our space everywhere, so lets take some of that space back with words we would rather see-- message boards at the coffee shop, written in chalk on the sidewalk, poetry everywhere!

melt

2008-02-06T14:22:00.000-05:00

turning time,
holding patterns,
a review of original slogans.

weekends that were lost
in rain without umbrellas

still, a movement forward.

navigation

2008-02-06T10:18:00.000-05:00

building blocks, or
how to create a sidebar of substance,
long lists,

multiple versions

& locations.

bend

2008-02-06T09:30:00.000-05:00

when minds melt

not here

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Iceland
would be

nice.

Age 8

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Always a
skinned knee
and
loose teeth

prefall

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it would be a lie
to say the leafs are
turning,

but more interesting

than grass bending
as each automobile
passes.

time 4

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to kill time, use
Photoshop.

time 3

2006-09-20T15:47:00.000-04:00

to kill time, use
bologna sandwich.

time 2

2006-09-20T15:45:00.000-04:00

to kill time, use
matches.

time

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to kill time, use
homework.

monday

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you know it's monday when:
aaaaaaaa.

yes, search V3

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you can search
the internet for
doodles in
the margin.

yes, search V2

2006-09-07T13:42:00.000-04:00

you can search
the internet for
sardine SUB lunchtimes.

yes, search

2006-09-07T13:41:00.000-04:00

you can search
the internet for
dropped cell
phone calls

not wearing socks

2006-09-07T13:38:00.000-04:00

sandals after lawn
mowing; grass
between toes.

powerplant

2006-08-30T23:44:00.000-04:00

all the education i have gotten--
three years of
college, in the folds of jelly

pulsing with electronic synaptic fireworks.

v. 2

2006-08-30T19:48:00.000-04:00

you know it's friday when:
you feel like
skipping.

backpacks

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you know it's friday when:
backpacks feel
lighter.

it is certain:

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we fall in
magic eight ball
love.

umbrellas

2006-08-29T20:32:00.000-04:00

Umbrellas
are sunshine
on a
rainy day.