epigram on the epic

Sold     in a make-shift, one moment     at the season.

Almost,  I remember a call   in the acid air:

unscroll a long list ..                It means, the meetings of

people;  it means

locking together ages glances.

--Helmut Sho

drums (&) taps

Many heroic soldiers are marching.

Heads are buried.  Eyes are closed.

Many heroic soldiers are marching.

Eyes are buried.  Mouths are buried.

Many heroic soldiers are marching.

Many heroic soldiers are marching.

Many heroic soldiers are marching.

Many hdroic soldiers ar narching.

Many hdiosh sodihf are msdrching.

Manony fhroicf svjfopd mdg

manfoihgbntb ing

dfikhfg

fviod

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--Hank Holorenshaw

Summer, grill

This is me being,

should be triumphant.  As

a red car, flaming

necessity.

Or

blown out by

landscapes

under the weight of the deck.

Tangy gifts.

I remember the armory

by the river,

things that got stuck.  Where?

by getting heaved

this is me being

should be triumph, spider, jump as

a red car

untaming

in decipher,

--Greg Mesa

EDITORIAL STATEMENT:

miscproj is a continuation using blog software of the poetry magazine and newsletter,  Misc. Proj.,  which was published out of Atlanta for several years in the late nineties.  Each issue of the original publication was prefaced by a brief quotation i thought made a crucial point about poetry;  in that spirit,  here to kick things off are 2 such aphorisms:

"In aesthetics, any formal opposition will always be eventually overridden by artists who have learned to blur the contrasts or synthesize the opposing distinctions, as Cezanne learned to compose and draw through color."

                                                                                          --Charles Rosen

and

"I hoped (at least I see that in retrospect) to create a text in which an entire global consciousness was present in each sentence."

                                                                                           --Richard Foreman

--Mark Prejsnar