Jargons IV (8) Poem by Ulf Stolterfoht

'borrowed lynx eyes from common rhyme-and-
reason-sense' to decode rest of palimpsests in
shorthand remap concept-scraps with badger
paws and scratch off scrape down recent
coats of varnish 'to compare the more
keen-sightedly the qualities of things.'

corpse in(tro) spection. from words that become
tangible 'once they mightily neighborly groan'
via a lyrico-typical strutting sound 'hybrid'
straight to pseudo-vico´s 'place before time'
—oppressive fragments. but something still
resists. there is a threat of other tones.

attempts in mutant meter. manipulated
metronome. compulsive forte -bark at marked
passages. especially in complex sentences let´s
give self-consciousness to form. and that´s just
the beginning. the current state of sound:
good. the tone gestalt however lags behind.

skirmishes with sense continue. the dogged look of
compound sentences. they are the last to pass
with thanks. thus you disband positions. a foreign
scalp most decorative. thus you unmask a
posture. the barbarism of abstraction. poetry
hurrah! language is allowed to obey vision.

Translated by Rosmarie Waldrop