"Joseph Harrington"

Issue One:

CONFOUNDED EPOCHES AND THIN HOLDS

By “Joseph Harrington”

The information of wilderness
A flimsy headquarter
An inconclusive stake
Creating existence
Slight and confounded

A price
A trade
An epoch

Like a word

In recrudescence
A thin act

Arise
Red and absent
Animated and unanimated
Of desolation
An English of holds

To swing
Make and vitality
Rest


Verzion Two:

CONFOUND IT

By Joseph Harrington

Live from the National Info Wilderness,
Flimsy Stake presents “The Animal Scene”!

Hard rice thumps onto grassy knolls at head
quarters. This much we know: the color red.

Arise o fully-armed recrudescence machines,
making all that money from the golden crows:

Substance sucks an english of holds, a thin act,
it features ones and notones, quick & dread –

Mother gives us work to keep us warm. Thank
you, nature dear: that’s how it guns and goes!


The “real” Joseph sez: “I didn’t like all the abstract nouns in the original, but there were some swell phrases – or ideas for phrases – in it. I also think I ‘got at’ a fractal thematic pattern in the original, even though these are two very different forms.”