Midland
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"FOR BITTEN LIPS AND SUBTLE SLIPS
OF SWOLLEN TONGUES
ARE SOLACED BY OIL AND WINE,
AND BY SOIL AND LOAM"
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Midland - Quillan
Copyright © 2009-2012 by Quillan
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Contents
Nonet I
Kept Wraiths and Wishes
Libidinous Hues
Coitus of Fingers
Thin Ditties and Dirges
O’er Tips of Lusty Oaks
By Cull Pro Concord
A Lovely Breach
Her Thighs’ Tattoos
Nómadas y Trovadores
Nonet II
Fondling the Romanza
Without Words
E. A. Poe
Damn Gambits
Sounds of Hammered Coils
Rome à la Mode
Diaspora
Las Palabras Sobreentendidas
A Love de Trop
Nonet III
Upon Midland He Dances
Libidinous Hues, Hideous Clues
Interceding Smithereens I
Interceding Smithereens II
El Catafalco de Rosas
Doors to Her Sixties
The Dulcet Autarchy
Homeless Harlequins
Transcendental Intercourse
Nonet IV
Wizen and Wax
Los Diez Cantos
Bangkok in Memphis
The Human Syntax
Il Sesso e Niccolò dei Machiavelli
Arabesque
Lettered on Epic Pages
Her Prague, His Berlin
La Languidez Surrealista
Nonet V
Lounges of Ataxias
Scratch
Cadaverous Discourses
Sniff
The Dialectic Stones
Chronicles
Solace as per Sun-Fucked Seas
Parasol and Carrousel
Nescience’s Gaze
A Goddamn Trilogy
Hinterland
Midland
Heartland
Nonet VI
Hamburg
Gouache
Vomit
Time
Line
Line II
Gardens
Country Empire
Proverb
Nonet VII
Anapestic Arborescence
Freesia
Bullets and Bricks
Aspires Mid Spiral
Grind
The Miracle of Peace
Regarding Peace
Despoil de Novo
By Note, Lyric, and Flame
Crystal Chairs
Nonet VIII
Hispaniola
Falcon and Dove
Hastening to taste her latter dew
Thence Envy Strangely
Toqué La Luna Callada
The Anguished Face
O’er Nudities the Damselflies
The Damselflies Dragoon Airily
Damselfly Wings
El Libro y La Rosa
Nonet IX
Stimuli a Posteriori
Cannon Fodder
Mimics of Subconscious Magic
La Ciudad Fronteriza
Copulations and Martinis
Messina’s Moist Loins
Gypsies
Valley of Vapors
Fingering Poetry
Slow Rains of Vicious Haikus
Afterbirths
Revolution is a Fuss
All Things Random
Vagabond Shadows
Mid Ambulant Twilights
Fragments
Twenty-Five Verses on Silence
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Poetry is passion… poetry is power!
~ Books by Quillan ~
Epistola
December 2001
Epistola II - Forever Dance Naked
October 2003
Epistola III - Soul Wanderings
September 2005
Commentaries by an American Poet
December 2006
Passionate Lucidity
March 2009
To my uncle and aunt for being compassionate listeners as well
offering timely words of encouragement.
David W. & Mary M. Campbell
To my three very tolerant daughters.
Rox, Jessie, & Aly
And to my youngest brother and friend… he is missed by many.
Bruce Andrew Stone
(1964-2010)
Midland
mid-land [mid-luh nd]
-noun
1. the middle part of a country or region.
2. (initial capital letter) the dialect of English spoken in the central England, also the dialect of English spoken throughout the southern Appalachians.
3. (initial capital letter) the mid-south region consisting parts of Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi with the city of Memphis as the geographical center (for this book only).
4. an approximate mean spatially between two or more ideological ends (for this book only).
5. part of a woman's anatomy (for this book only).
The rise, the sighs
The breath taking sides
`Tween musk and mist
O’er tips of lusty oaks
The tryst of ridges arching
While moaning low
from O’er Tips of Lusty Oaks
Nonet I
In pith of her crux lithely lurk the gestures
Her writhes of body entices his mirth
The living myth of dying lore
Now erotic apothegms of eternal slurs
from A Lovely Breach
Kept Wraiths and Wishes
23 August 2009
Location: Meeman-Shelby Forest (Millington, TN)
Note:
Came across a pile of garbage while hiking today (fuck it). Still, the park possesses beautiful wooded areas, surprisingly unknown to many… continued at Walnut Grove and Racine (Memphis, TN), modified on 26 August 2009.
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Crowfoot (Blackfoot orator, 1830-1890)
Frozen antiquities on the grassy gossamer mounds
Heaving from sounds indigenously concupiscent
Coffee grounds and cans round on aqueous slips
Transported by intrusive ships upon held planes
Fried voguish piths and chichi cellophane arrayed
Deranged, where are the green fuckin’ machines
Of intended consumption, sucking refuse and shit
Where’s gumption of mind, collaboration of soul
All lost at sea of Self, the masturbated end of want
Castrated is the savant’s agility and perspicacity
When prowling the popular orbs and lifeless planets
Banal magnets of bromidic works by ferine canines
Artlessly sniffing their own malodor claiming chic
They sing, save troubadours, `tween blood-mantles
Her crimson cheeks exhort the passion thirsted after
While pendulums suspend down cruxes and thighs
Lift high the ambrosial skirt low the autumn squall
Veracity in rain, simply stained on betrothed hips
Lips so closely avowed as lovers repose to brows
Vexed by Morrigan’s fury, writhed while mounted
Amidst emotive flurries to swirling visceral eddies
In midland, her fervid river that fondles his shiver…
O Breath a breeze, the other’s air, burgeons the zeal
And heals abysmal feels of kept wraiths and wishes
Libidinous Hues
29 August 2009
Location: near South Main and Pontotoc (Memphis, TN)
Note:
Written while listening to Jane Birkin’s album Enfants D'hiver.
Therein the cool of her eyes
And warmth of her voice
Lies deeply allayed in solitude
The woman's nakedness
Herself unadorned, unclothed
Raw beauty manifested
Mysteries revealed, inured
Brushed with libidinous hues
Never suffered by gods
Her skin the artist's canvas
Penned with ardent locutions
Never uttered by mobs
Her soul the poet's