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A Female Illusion with the Scent of Herbs by David Detrich

Thursday, January 2, 2014 § 0

A Surrealist Text 

a female illusion with the scent of herbs / a serpent's tale of a fire breathing lady with the head of a poetess / the novelist with a suit made of horny goat's weed spoke to the mythical creature "It is hoped that 2014 will be a chimerical year for the deer with golden brown fur who graze beneath the window frame, as the genetic evolution of the Surrealist novel anticipates the futuristic species of phantasy models who exist as golden orange illuminated clouds / fishlike creatures who read the fusion of wet words into metaphor," the projection of thoughts onto the page the rabbit eared curved line did read...

the hypnogogic trance induced a visionary state of phantasy for the goddess of sleep had kissed the brow of the narrator / "From the critical perspective the yellow shades of auric color have led to the realization that the mystery of life could be solved / that love was the echo of ambient sound that he was seeking in the philosophical meditation on identity deduced from the phenomenological writings of Husserl / to his student Heidegger whose seminar brought a sense of logical euphoria to the mind of the novelist / as the donkey ears of a smile ascended above the crystalline structure of the photographic symmetry waves of consciousness approached the flesh of the personage like a humpbacked whale...  

above the self the higher self of the better self / superman comic hero who runs through the rubble painted as beige fragments of stone signifying a concrete poetics where the thought transcends the surreality of the equation = forming a unified whole / ancient manuscript revealing the passing through of the Nietzschean overman comic book hero who learns of a dispute = eager to depart from the yellow orange sun towards the peace offerings which symbolize the cessation / identity as an expanded concept where the reader kisses the cover of the sacred text foreshadowing a day when the novel is dead

let there be no standing armies in a peaceful society / Immanuel Kant originates the concept of peace through the exclusion of militant behavior as a way of defending human rights and dignity in a modern world of sublime serenity savoring the solution / love symbolized as the dove of peace ascending before the upstairs window transformed into a journey across the white snow covered mitten of the storyteller the plotline extending across the representation of surreality as imagined characterizations  

wintry frosted iced hiking across the sunset balanced on the hillside like an reddish orange illumination of the frozen whiteness / shivering Pablo Picasso across the glacial white canvas that feels the warmth of the fire emotional angel simultaneous messenger who saves the fictive gray brown shades of the dark outlines becoming the winter constellations intensified into the clarity of the lens "Being of beings create peace for those who are frozen in the absolute whiteness of snow so that the perpetual emotions of love will prosper in the modern society of self understanding democracy...

Orbiting the white sun / galaxy the poetic words foreshadow the future perfect...              the personification of love in the resemblance to the ideal form gives pleasure to the one who conveys an affectionate California greeting... 

the pencil drawing enlivened with whitish gray shades of gouache reveals the nocturnal circular head with a white cake ascending towards the tawny curls of hair / a manifestation of emotion that balances on a cube of symmetry that symbolizes the western portrait of the broad curves which orbit the painting as the white luminosity of the full moon / the eyes convey the sympathetic wonder at the aspect of the critical perspective which implies the equilibrium of the Françoise Gilot portrait... 

the paradox of the museum is in the form of an enigma: a building that is square yet round at the same time / a horizontal bookish design that is rounded into the geodesic curves which like two sun kissed breasts blend into the ecologic of the pink sky Florida sunset thus implying Dali's theory of the fourth dimension / the premise for the logical propositions of the painter suggest the theme of the  invisible man: can this illusory man be both the psychic percipient of the intuitive before the flowing curves of the waterfall while at the same time becoming the sands of the beach extending towards the Black Rock desert which is itself composed of sand?  

the van is ascending the steep hill when the transmission wears out / with some blankets over his shoulder the heroic dark form walks through the deep crystalline snow and falls over : : a tragic moment when his hopes for the semester begin to diminish. Standing before the wrecker...

SRC at the ski resort, local high schools, Wayne State, and the free concerts in Ann Arbor... With the intimate atmosphere of the O'Farrell Theatre one may admire the sublime beauty of the models. True friendship is found in the devotion of the literary mind to the works of philanthropy...

The Characterization of Chance as the Translucent Silk of Ivory Curves by David Detrich

Monday, November 18, 2013 § 0

Fiction by David Detrich

One : : Zero               
"Constellation wordsmith chromemetallic artform whorls of paint metamorphosizing into the spiritual being of light who bumps into the translucent silk of the ivory curves as if by chance...feeling the thrill of gender as the sex kitten transforms into the chromosonal pairs of words which become the dovelike form of the painter/poet...                who comforts the supermodel with a warm hug as her eyes glitter with the precise calculations of the infinite suggested by the fortuitous encounter..."                the deep breathing of fluidity inspires the serene couple to hold hands in a descent down the steps of life which appear in the informal prose of semantic structures...                where the artist is giving finishing touches to the oil painted profile of the pin-striped gentleman in a green corduroy shirt...               who notices the red garters above the sleek thighs of the translucent silk of ivory curves...               "The Abstract Expressionist phrases of the innovative novel convey a cooing voice that whispers to the true spirit of a fortuitous likeness words which create the sensual excitations at the predictability of chance...              as the hips of the fashionable model in flowered bikini bump lightly into the magical apparition of painterly form whose erect posture yields to the translucent protection of the golden foil..."            while the topless mermaid admires the visuality of the prose written by the novelist...              nombres whose chance composition appears as the creamy white space of the blank page curving into the soft light of the intimate space...              where a fissure of light illuminates the crevice tufted with fur as the painterly forms ascend through the synchromy of abstract shapes in the color harmonies of desire...              as the translucent silk of ivory curves kisses on a dream with the receptive wishes that inspire the foot fetish aperture of the narrative perspective while the procreative chapters of the innovative novel deep into the comforts of the soft light in a representation of fluidity...          
within the Jim and Artie informal prose of the ultramodern design with the cunning of a magical spirit feels the high degree of desire peaking in the chance structure of the Surrealist text...              with the body above in pink shades of the hollow rose petal surface with the space of the page before the blank whiteness of the moonlike breasts...              which are soft sculpted by hands through the vanilla shades of the figurative drawing with a light sprinkle of moisture the erect form of the mechanistic form who is automated by the movable gestures of love...             a retrospective of the magical spirit of the poetic avant garde in paleblue gray oceanic shades of rodeo designs with the rhythmic energies of the nightlife...              the human body is written in expressions of Surreality which inspire thoughts on erotic filmmaking envisioned in the subjective consciousness of the phenomenal ...                 Georges Braque by Jean Leymarie published by the Guggenheim...             grey circles lanced with  Westgate 2013...               nombres by Philippe Sollers this is to say that the description of a cube is ...                 

one : : one 
Zettel represents my notes from reading the Tractatus Logico-Phiolosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein which has transformed the November landscape into the Surreality of atomic facts...      Salvador Dali mentions the atomic facts in his exploration of the fourth dimension where the non-colored objects on the picture picture plane...      sensibly * perceptible * sign/logic painting as the objective description of the subjective/metaphoric collage... 
the sensuality of perception creates esthetic appreciation for the sharing with non-sensual perceivers...               comprehending the text with appreciation in the sense of Husserl's Phenomenology...              Dada delights in non-sense and the illogical as an expression of the irrational and of love....            lkdjfoihefoiuefoiubieufbibue...
the irrationality of humor is expressed in a smile...              the mind has its limits...               logic is merely objective...             surreality favors the  metaphor/mystical * semiotic *  metafictional novel...      lkjfdolijodihoifehiouhfeiuhiefuibi...           the completely analyzed proposition: characters exist among objects...             character A Andy Warhol exists meaning A = A...
or A does not equal A depending of relative position in space in relation to others...               Einstein's theory of relativity applied to metafiction...             the elucidation of primitive signs represents the Semiotic novel...             lead with love...               the word represents object...                mental chaos from multiple unappreciative perspectives...              won't clean up room...
heavy sceptical beams...                the Tower of Babel defined as chaos with primitive men conversing...              Zettel by Ludwig Wittgenstein with my lecture notes...                reading The Wumberlog by John Lennon showing the development in style to A Spaniard in the Works...               Boko Haram 2013 Abubakar Shekau bringing spirituality to the militant movement...
divinity student dressed in white...               miltants losing as Arab culture gains...              Agony by Arshile Gorky...               the agony and the ecstasy...             domineering and pinching the optic nerves...         someone looking through the eyes of the novelist / mirrored figurative drawing with the freedom of poetic literary sentence structures...               flowering fragrance puff of smoke...              colorbursts fading diminish into memory...       informal prose...              pursed lips deep breathing orgasmic energies...              the blur clarifies into the poetic words of Nathaniel Mackey which extend along the plotline from a Santa Cruz radio program to the moment of writing /       the relationship with the romantic  form in lingerie whose curves inspire the pipedream...               photogenic * textflowers * hard object...             the freedom of the poetic literary snowbank dusted streets...             flowering fragrance puff of smoke...              sweep the floor...             flutter of wings waft the intellect * mindtrumpet * Miles Davis...    
Aimé and Suzanne Cesaire have written the Surrealist text across the reflective waters of the Caribbean / gray white cloud formations hover above November apple tree branches like brush strokes of entropy...   Coffee redraspberry * meta/chocolate tonalities of whipped cream brush strokes /self emerging from aromatic reflections of the prosaic...      Lance Olsen 

one : : two
Intelligent agents of the wild wild west Pop Art...              sudden cloudburst of sunrise color as the abstract silkscreen persona known as Hook Paws & Champagne...               an easy catch for marriage as the spontaneous deep presence...              the remembrance of things past occurs as the November * snowdusted sunrise/golden intensity enumerates the equation...              prolepsis: evoking in advance               Gérard Genette analepsis; evoking earlier event anachrony: discordance of temporal order Indian tribes feature the papoose with a baby in a leather crib... 
like the story of Moses...                the Egyptian dynasty design of a bird with outstretched wings...                Jacques Derrida considers the themes of ancient Canada...                 the modern literary press...                Garry Thomas Morse reminiscent of the ancient Indian kings to 1200 AD...              the Gin Blossoms as the spirit of romance...                a tour of ancient world...            Dancing under the laser lightshow stars as luminous points in the night sky... suns * planets wandering within the equilibrium of gravity... the naked eye perceives the Milky Way as the stylized stars of the Miro moon symbol silvery shape... the white textures of the performer computer persona constellations * configuration... Surrealist personality reminiscent of the film Robert Desnos poetics...             Beat generation themes evolving from Henry Milller /the rebels sing their favorite song just like him: an eternity of donkey * lightwaves inspiration for the conceptual breeding grounds of the creative writing class where Kilowatts of electricity power the electric motor * electromagnetic fields for the radio broadcast...              rockstar persona of constellations in a configuration of blonde textures dating the lightwaves in a description of the futuristic ideal celestial body / heavenly heroine * celebrity * superstar Starlight red scarlet * carmine wine red reddish cinammon cherry...                King Crimson rose brick literary pink...               drawn as a Lance Olsen portrait of light voiced narrative strategies...               red hair Oriental rice refried beans Thanksgiving with algebraic equations as the snow crystals blow my mind...                December his range of vision spans the scope of the compass sweeping the extent of the colorfield * deskorbit * cloudambiance on the horizon/horse latitudes...              the mind has its limits bounds * confines parameters range of mountains peaks in a row...               silver chain sierra ridge massive written lines strings series...               variations * diversity smoking mixture a collection of memories...              array of rice on the stove as pasturage for the prairie grasslands grazing on the land literary greensward...               protests in Kiev, Bangkok, and Cairo 2013 as police brutalize and tear gas the peaceful crowds...let us disempower police throughout the world...               the quartet is ready to perform after the lockdown...            the Pop Art cartoon hero feels love for the translucent silk of ivory curves deep affection * fondness for the moments of tenderness warmth intimacy...            an attachment of endearment revealing a literary devotion * noveladoration * idolization of the model text...             

one : : three
"Love for fashion | | a love for the northern cuisine entitled the poorboy series with an appreciation for the Dry Creek zinfandel to taste the textures to delight in the synonym...    The Pop Art cartoon hero feels love for the translucent silk of ivory curves deep affection * fondness for the moments of tenderness in the warmth of the winter intimacy...            an attachment of endearment revealing a literary devotion * noveladoration * idolization of the model text...The Pop Art cartoon hero feels love for the translucent silk of ivory curves deep affection * fondness for the moments of tenderness in the warmth of the winter intimacy... an attachment of endearment revealing a literary devotion * noveladoration * idolization of the model text..."Love for fashion : : a love for the translucent silk of ivory curves bent with proclivity felt in the inclination of his desire positioned to reveal a predilection for her penchant earrings.... the northern cuisine entitled the poorboy series... to taste the textures to delight in the synonymous... an appetite enthusiasm * fondness for... a weakness... protests in Kiev, Bangkok, and Cairo 2013... let us defend the rights of the people to gather peacefully... the quartet is ready to perform after the lockdown... love for our fellow human beings...     To feel compassion with a regard for the solicitude of the narrator / a concern for the philanthropy and benevolence of our fellow novelists who represent humanity as an expression of the innovative trends in fiction and the contemporary in lifestyle...     "Whorls of tassels spurred by the novelist in cowboy shirt who admires the verbal artistry of the flowerchild appearing as a watercolor of yellow white /transparency that appears in a sketch of the Haight Ashbury afternoon sidewalk prowess by adding color to the mindvision * blondecollage * arttechniques that blend the cherry red western shirt with the water soluble cream colors of the model.""Gender / image / text the art of writing is the writing of art with transparent lettering on glass as you ponder the meaning of transparentia rose red intensity of saturated color in conjunction with Venus and the crescent moon above the apple tree in the photogenic clarity of the December winterscape / red hair shades of erotic comedy with red crimson lips and electric blue eye shadows an oil painted complex image that suggests a burlesque drama of expertise while the narrator admires the Frida Kahlo / Diego Rivera deftness in oils a virtuosity in mural painting a mastery of humanity in motion," the XXX sketch of young talent is a parody of the innovative novel with the plotline transforming into phallic silverchrome * starcharts * plot variables in a sequence of mini-erotic escapades that introduce new characters while appreciating the intuitive aptitude of the original lovers. 

one : : four
"What is fiction but the realization of the creative process, sculpted and beautified, like the canvas of a painting, visualized scenes which form a tableau, as you chose words which will compose the novelistic space of your mindmap * noveloutline * time/evolving plot structure which forms a recurrent pattern of Matta three dimensional visualizations of intersecting dimensions occuring on the space of the page, a whiteness that is a snowdrift of emotional clarity, a perfect artform for the expression, written or drawn, like a dance of the photogenic model across the pages of the monumental novel in a two volume expression of love by the literary artist for the reader / subject of the composition to appreciate?" the novelist conveys the the esthetic theory of fiction, a lifetime of events in a timelapse sequence of imagery, as a narrative strategy for giving esthetic pleasure to his ideal reader. The first person singular feels the emotional empathy for the espresso moods of the finer trills which compose the novelistic structure of the branches of plot development: ski hill digressions of prose clarified into crystalline symmetrical design. "Your erotic bedtime stories are written from the Surrealist perspective with the betrothal of the sandy tones of the flesh colored figure reading a novel / mirrored like the wife of Arshile Gorky while the human form is abstracted into the outlines of supple hips beneath the flowing hair of poetic gold...               equations of sentence structures multiplied...               to be fond of  the cuisine... "Her voice is a dreamlike cerulean blue canvas with robin's egg shell tones transforming into ice blue golden sunlight intensifying the cyan regions of brushwork into the psychicspirit * heartflesh * mindframe of the floating islands of desertspace / the ego perceives the desires of the id through the presence of illusory dimensionality creating the portrait of a receptive mood with the essence of northern atmospherics reduced to blue snow illumined by the characterization of ink dark hair flowing into the ivory hands of Joyce Mansour / perfect poise with the contrasting black and white photograph defining the first chair in Surrealist poetics,""The intense purple of the lettering transforms into the four chambered heart / medieval manuscript book-in-a-box intricate design for the reader of the continuous novel which extends to the ancient past crimson heart an indeterminate value blue / red heart that is scarlet with four chambers of blue sky above the yellow flowers with orange centers with faces upturned to the sunlight receptive to the warmth which has evolved into the novel with the blue cover radiating energy a star that emanates character with the Anaïs Nin interpretation of psychological desire / Freudian theory of sexuality suggests a lack of fulfillment for the ego not having realized the perfect relationship / the painter at work on an abstract canvas containing the personal mythology of interconnecting images which describe the erotica of mind in subtle illusory forms," "Looking out on the rings of Saturn which appear as the multiple layers of an agate / the ancient robotic figure appears on the horizon with the circular rings of Saturn appearing as a model with her hair flowing into the subtle vapors of a ship / propulsion is the ultimate in travel from the poetics of Octavio Paz...            his life with the wave to the tuxedo figure obscured by the the objects of inner reflection where the solution to identity is found : : the paintings of Albert Gleizes imply a multidimensionality * oxygenorbital * magnetic field with the broad figure in rings of silver metamorphosizing into a circular dish,"

one : : five
"A homestead log house critipositioned on a mountain lot would inspire the novelist with a place where the scene of writing can take place / the dwelling place for the soul where the lineage of your innovative novels could find roots / with a high peaked roof and wood burning stove you could work on your next novel...cowgirl gallery penthouse mountain home the old western town with wagon train where the bookstore prevails / the two breasts of the model emerge through the clouds in a Georgia O'Keefe landscape of sandstone * timberspirit * inner self/wigwam as a woman with papoose hikes through the snow towards the Christmas gray tones of the sauna / kiva as the embodiment of the unconscious desire to submerge in the hot tubs lifeforce psyche makeup of the self individuality to become the personification of love...skin complexion in layers of pigmentation in search of the golden fleece the colors of the palette winter golden sunlight blue / got milk in leopard skin sensations of memory the perfect banana in a XXX film in color animated designs of hands reaching outward in the Leonora Carrington margins of shadowed desire intrigued by the charm of the artist / smile whiteness of teeth snow the blankness of the page... magic mushroom wizardry words that enchant the mind with charm of laughter / shaman nightfall with the illusion of surreality lightened into the mind's perceiving self as the fascination with the self-representation of ego / the brilliance of color is the esthetic appreciation for the vivid intensity of sensual perception / a phantasm of the mind with the psychedelic symmetry : : of the page unfolding into the infinite potential of understanding the writing of Timothy Leary fine sse a rt ex pert ise of t he sen ten ce : : a novelistic design... fire as red luminosity ascending the green sloping hills on Pfeiffer Ridge with white dreamlike phantoms transforming into circular smoke rings / near the house where Henry Miller wrote Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch oxygen cadmium blue the esthetic philosophy of the self in relation to the mountain perspectives...     delineated in the ongoing jam that is a first draft of the thoughts on the acid rock that is a form of continuity where the lines trail towards the infinite bass lines that form a counterpoint to the subtle melodic impression of the guitar stylings / the electronic sound pans from one channel to the other as the keyboard player ponders last winter when the snow drifted up near the driveway like a mountain drive through snow crystals / the sounds of Phil Lesh and Friends create the psychedelic precision of the intuitive moment where the narrative coalesces from thought into visuality...                 Blonde hair descending the pole towards the eroticism of the infinite...              A poetic meditation on the stars that is a mini innovative space novel Starlight in Two Million is a novella that represents characterization seeking a larger context within the spacetime continuum for the reader / space oddity who is seeking the enlightenment of a new genre.

David Detrich is a novelist living in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan where he has just completed The Convergence of Two Narrative Lines Ascending, an ultramodern Surrealist novel written in minimal squares. He is the author of Big Sur Marvels & Wondrous Delights (2001) which is available from Amazon. He edits Innovative Fiction Magazine and Surrealist Star Clustered Illuminations.



The Dickmare by Rikki Ducornet

Tuesday, October 8, 2013 § 0


The Dickmare

A Surrealist Text by Rikki Ducornet

     It all boils down to this: does she present to the Dickmare or not? She fears the lot of them, those perpetually inflated Dickmares, their uncanny magnetism matched only by their startling lack of symmetry. Yet she has been summoned. A thing as unprecedented as it is provoking.
     And she has awakened with a curious rash. It circles her body like a cummerbund. A rash as florid as those coral gardens so appreciated by lovers of bijouterie. A rash having surged directly—or so she supposes—from her husband’s anomalous—or so she hopes—behavior.
     Once she had thought her husband admirable. Admirable his thorny cone, his sweet horny operculum, his prowess as a swimmer, the beauty of his sudden ejections, the ease with which he righted himself when overturned. Not one to retreat into his shell, in those days his high spirits percolated throughout the yellow mud they optimistically called home.
     Adolescents intellectually annihilated by lust and hopeful mysticisms would engage her husband for hours on end with thorny topics such as why Noah built the Ark without once questioning the High Clam’s outburst of temper. And if the High Clam loves the fishes and the shelled fishes best (after all they did not suffer during the forty days and nights of rain but, instead, benefited)—why were they snatched in numbers from their naps and served up Top Side boiled in beer and dressed with hot butter? And her husband instructed the small fry with cautionary tales featuring the terrible Kracken who swims on the surface of the waves like a gigantic swan downing mischievous little mollusks at will—the fear of the lie quieting both their wanderlust and their exuberance (and some were so shellacked with fear they slammed shut never to be heard from again).
     The old timers, too, came to her husband for advice, sleepless in expectation of those fearsome migrations they were impelled to entertain periodically for reasons beyond everyone’s grasp. It seemed that everybody was in need of advice all the time, anymore, and that her husband’s ministry never ceased. At first she had been proud of his popularity, or rather, had done her best not to hate the constant tide of traffic and bavardage. She would shut her eyes and cling to anything, to debris—a rotting hull, a stump of pier, a branch of folifera. And she would dream unfructuous dreams of the secret arms of rivers that are said to feed the sea—uncertain waters flowing from an unknowable source (because Top Side)—a source she wished to find.

                                           * * *

Her husband’s popularity came to a sudden halt right after a doleful interlude with the Cuckfield quintuplets whom he had surprised in their daily rotations over by Sandy Bottoms. Now no one, not even the Squamosas who wear their digestive tubes in their arms—will give either of them the time of day. Once so admired, her husband has taken his problems to a Dickmare—and there is a scary rhyme the small fry trill about him:

When the moon is out
and the bivalves hop—
and cannot stop,
and cannot stop,
and a shadow steals above . . .
tell me! What is it?
What is it? My love!

--a Dickmare who orders up nacreous pills from the oyster shop, pills that resemble toothed hinges and once swallowed, produce an egg capable of sprouting fins and swimming. These days her husband’s conversation is as rare as a clam’s liver. He has lost the instinct for cordiality, and his capacity for mobility is sorely compromised. He has developed two pairs of bocal palpi, and even if he had wanted to, she would not want him to kiss her. When in motion he takes no great strides, but instead stretches out his foot so slowly that she—who stands at the ready with a glass of water (these days his thirst is prodigious)—fears the tedium will kill her. But then, having set the right foot down, he withdraws the left so suddenly that, crying out, she drops the tumbler, wetting her apron. When he is mercifully out the door, another unexpectedly vigorous push with his left foot sends him headlong into his vehicle.

                              Is it a squid or a calamar?

                                             * * *
When her husband returns he wishes to engage her. Occupying the recliner, he kneels on his knuckles, inching forward with one hand on each end of the apparatus. This, she fears, may lead to further disability. She can tell he has taken the other pills, the ones the size of a grain of linseed, which, like those the size of a split pea, and unlike those the size of a small haricot bean, are, at the instant of ingestion, spat out upon the floor. She stands at the ready, her small broom resting at her side.
     The fine salmon pink of her husband’s cheeks has darkened, and his skin exudes a peculiarly pungent odor reminiscent of dead eels. Provoked by the prescribed medicaments, within the hour she knows he will turn upon himself like a wheel in motion.
     Her husband displays his lamellar and vivid portions. He wishes to excite her curiosity as, he tells her, she has excited the Dickmare’s who, having asked to see her photograph and at once been satisfied, extends an invitation to his grotto. The Dickmare suggests that she is distinguished from the schools of others of her kind, by a brilliancy of eye that, added to her moist plumpness, renders her the most appealing analysand he could aspire to. She is a treasure, the single form reflected in a plurality of lesser forms, or, rather, she is that plurality reflected in a singular form.
     Unclear as to what he has said, still she cannot help but be moved—as creatures such as she, so fraught with disappointments, swarm within his reach, easy prey for lesser contenders, those who do not have access as the Dickmares do, to the tops of rocks, nor have they access to the medicines. And it is true: she is lovely, vitreous and permeable, her bottom globulous. Aroused, she is luminous in the dark. So round, so smooth, so readily ablaze in her posterior part! No one, she muses, has noticed these things for a very long time. And so, after all these months watching her husband pull himself across the floor in fractions—a transaction that is always accompanied by frequent vomitings and the prodigious thirst—she weighs her chances. Risky business!

                                     Or is it a Dick . . .

     After all, the Dickmares are known to unspool and push their pistons forward with such alacrity, a subconical cavity will be stunned into service before it has a chance to ignite. And she fears that rather than excite his compassion, the curious rash now tumbling to her knees like a Samoan’s grass skirt will excite his scorn and what’s more his wrath. Yet it is also true that she has just that morning shed her shell—a thing both temporary and wildly appealing. If she is at her most vulnerable, she is also at her most charming.  The rash, she hopes, may well be a function of this transformation, her heightened state. Her beauty—she can see it now—has never been more poignant.
     It boils down to this: might the Dickmare provide a pill less bitter than the one she has sucked ever since the Cuckfield fry gave voice to their many peculiar complaints? Might the Dickmare assuage her loneliness and her humiliation? Is she afflicted enough to dare seek out a questionable success with an Upper Mudder known to be sensuous, furious and cruel? And she so fragile! So amply furnished with tender sockets and delicate rosettes rotundular and soft. Yes, above all she is soft. And so easily impressed! 
     It is said at Death—and once the flesh has dissolved into the limitless bodies of  things so small they cannot be perceived by the naked eye—the soul is swept away by a current called Forgetfulness and carried to an edifice of foam so impalpable no one has ever seen it. She wants to be the one to see it and to inform the others as to its nature.

Rikki Ducornet is the author of eight novels, three collections of short fiction, a book of essays and five books of poetry. The Dickmare appears in The One Marvelous Thing published by The Dalkey Archive Press © 2008. Rikki Ducornet has twice been honored by the Lannan Foundation. She has received the Bard College Arts and Letters award and, in 2008, an Academy Award in Literature. Her most recent novel Netsuke (2011) is published by Coffeehouse Press.

The New World by Rikki Ducornet

Wednesday, September 25, 2013 § 0


The New World, water color on rag paper by Rikki Ducornet.

Rikki Ducornet is the author of eight novels, three collections of short fiction, a book of essays and five books of poetry. Rikki Ducornet has twice been honored by the Lannan Foundation. She has received the Bard College Arts and Letters award and, in 2008, an Academy Award in Literature. Her most recent novel Netsuke (2011) is published by Coffeehouse Press.




                                                                                         

Surrealist Star Clustered Illuminations: First Issue

Sunday, September 22, 2013 § 0


Signature (2008) by David Detrich.
Acquiescent Silence To Induce Dreams and Fantasies within the Equilibrium of Posture
                                                     
                                                     To John Thomas Allen
"The poetic writing of Surrealism transforms into a nature trail that engages the figurative curves of the erotic circles with a scent of raspberry that is reminiscent of Kama Sutra oils...               the innovative novel extends as a horizontal plane in an illumined space towards the pencil drawn face of a star who is a precipitation of blue white mist on the tall hillside grass...              the pretext for the avant garde film is a logic of causality which converges on the biomorphic persona of the author who is pre-arranged within a cubic coffeehouse context into the woodblock typefonts of the semiotic text..."                 the time lapse couple are observed making out from the aspect of Saturn while the Jacques Derrida scholars think through each idea of the text inspiring the coffeehouse intellect with the narrative * scheme * stagelights originating within the frame of the innovative novel * drame * revealing the mind through the architectonics of the Abstract Expressionist form...             
"The constellations are silver rings at acute angles of titillation in elation inspiring the equivalent geometric fossilization of the erect gentleman who is perpendicular to the vertical parallel black charcoal lines of the cartoon characterizations...            the blurred passages of plot development resolve into the full breasted model whose narrative strategy is to become compatible with the postmodern literary abstraction whose erotic wisdom engenders the XXX illuminations painted across the cloud formations ascending above the northern August skyline..." an abstraction of white teeth metamorphosizes into a smile of peaceful neurogenesis differentiated into musical notes of smooth textured signification...               "The first paintings of Arshile Gorky evolve into sophisticated picture/sketches of mood * star * planets as the celestial bodies intertwine within the minimalist palate of sharp cheddar complementing the ripened fruit and salad greens...            word patterns of sun apples...formal perfection of bananas...                the sweetness of sugars as an aftertaste of chardonnay..."a waterfall of words flows before the park bench into the astronomy of the André Breton word constellations structured with Miróesque patterns of psychic affinity..."The mind becomes more unified into an emotional intelligence as the Summerland foundation of the creative writer becomes a pretext for the nightlife personality to express in the abstract * figurative * picture * sketches the sympathetic mood of the stars in a celestial navigation towards the heavenly body...                the gravitation of cedar and rocky volcanic soil streams through the computer generated imagery with the strategic evolution of like-minded characters in an innovative structure designed with the sensitive form fitting latex of love in a relationship of psychic automatism * imagination * feelings sunshowers..."               the narrator of the innovative text : : a magician whose bluish gray metallic form is painted with the Surrealist objects which encircle the canvas...               "The herbalistic green plantlike figure looks with compassion on the abstract personifications of human tragedy during the civil war in Syria 2013 with the repetitive patterns of destruction as a soft poetic wind blows across the rubble... facial expressions petrified with agony become the exquisite corpse awaiting spiritual rebirth while the narrator feels sympathy for the victims / from the all-knowing perspective of God the city is a model for the historical development of theology...while the validity of the narrative perspective is constantly called into question as the addition of new facts sink into the unconscious mind..."               written with the Abstract Expressionist technique of conscious discontinuity where the meaning is comprehended after further study of the semantic structures which reveal the infinite complexity of the innovative plot...             "The intention of the mechanistic dancer wearing beige leather cowboy boots is to participate in the decision making process as the protagonist of this novelistic composition studies the explosive greyish white smoke billowing upwards with golden flames rising in the blackness of night like an angelic apparition of lightning...          the militants wearing black partake of the spirit of God showing the good side of what we had considered terror while the voice of an Italian is heard guiding the people during the rebel offensive..."                the book arrives from the library after the literary artist goes on a long hike across the interrupted future of thematic structures in chromosomal * egg * yellows * the secret of life as the human mind perceives the literary characteristics of emotion in the interpersonal mindset * makeup of the psychic terrain / digital animated sloping apple tree green hills of town...                "Kandinsky at Munich 1896-1914 at the Guggenheim Museum where the bright brushstrokes of the vibrant orange cape / book contrast the intensity of blue waters edged by the green dilemma / distance of the Michigan forest from the fictive figure..."               reminiscent of the color harmonies of the blue rider the spirit of peace jogs along wearing a black windbreaker across the oil painted surface of the dirt road extending across the coherence of precise referential fiction towards the variations in page design that make up the scope of the novelistic space...                "Let's create a new virtual infrastructure for the contemporary Surrealist novel based on genre...               the erotic models set the mood for the ancient luxury showers of Minoan Crete anticipated in modern design which inspire us with the pages of an ultramodern book written within the cadmium blue auraglow of the Surrealist pencil drawn images..."              the nude figures are enthralled with the physique of the black velvet gentleman who is reading The Surrealist Revolution Series which has evolved from the mythology of the phallic hymns mentioned in the Poetics of Aristotle...              "Modern erotic legends are written while savoring the creature comforts of raspberry chocolate espresso in digressions of fictive elements enhancing the desire of the narrator to explore the sensual nature of the model entity envisioned on a bed of XXX milk white textures which inspire his mind with the Freudian theory of adult sexuality / the Jungian anima * logos * foot fetish becoming an astronomy of celestial bodies orbiting the moon * sky * deskspace of the muscular cartoon heroic Pop Art form," the protagonist of the novel considers the brunette supermodel whose hair flows into the diamond lights above the sand dunes into the time lapse abstraction of the blue waters of sky which stream into the spacetime continuum...               "The luminary mind of the master of time and space considers the vibrant blue volume Surrealism in Greece with exultation * bliss * ecstasy embarking on a sojourn under the visual phenomenon of the northern sky with a reddish orange glow contemplated by the god of Eros / electric blue cowboy who reads the Franklin Rosemont anthology written in a style of curving breastlike hills as the slender figure of the goddess with blonde hair is inclined on her elbow perpendicular to the erect mountainous shouldered figure of the hillside / actor critipositioned before the movie director... who films the pendant breasts bending forward with the pink tipped silken textures of the nude...               skinny dipping in the hot tub radiance of sparse hairs immersed in the gravitation of reflected blue mirrored waters,"               the André Masson landscape of erotic phantasms inspire the novelist who embraces the water doubled image touching her butt to his thighs...               as his knees are bent to the shoulders...              her ass descends with her breasts positioned above the erect abstract persona...                who metamorphosizes into an infinite erotic macrocosm of psychedelic kaleidoscopic symmetry                 "Love ya, babe...                the tall treelike form of the aromatic redwood / starman whose written coherence of prosaic passages is uplifted with meaning...                ascends towards the autumn constellations with the oceanic breeze immersed in the sulfurous vapors of sympathetic atmospherics...                a welcome guest whose valid representation of semantics becomes a Surrealist self-portrait  : :  a textual entity whose shivering flesh perceives the essence of joy in the tasteful nubs of the topless mermaid inspiring the second person perspective of his ponytail tales..."                as a butterfly tattoo descends into the aqua blue waters an intellectual ambiance of bare breasted waves recalling the Aldous Huxley / Timothy Leary meditations on psychedelics...                while the sun sets below the Big Sur mountains at angular slopes descending towards the twelve string guitar * synthesized * bass * lines...    saddle up the dreamhorse for a ride along the beach...                she sells sea shells on the sea shore...                with the gradual curve of the pink tipped breasts transforming into the gentle lines of the neck / the flesh of the spiritual lightbeing / radiant hero stripped to the half-aroused cock * testicles * of his charming devotion...                based on the number two / symbolized by two wine glasses in the candlelight reminiscent of the ancient temples of Mu..." listening to Scenes. Actions and Disposition of Relations and Positions by Gertrude Stein in the laid back comforts of the dovegray shingled house where the philosophical fictive novel has entered the new Mayan calendar of 2012...                "The galactic beam helps us pass beyond the primitive oceanic culture of Mu towards the innovative future perfect fiction of the semiotic novel...                the physique of vim * and * vigor * vibrant with the colors of the abstract persona whose mind interacts with the natural environment of lightwaves * heated waters * aromas in a metaphysical motion picture of Surrealist biomorphic characterizations...            becomes a fusion of literary denotations as the song Take a Pebble is heard above the Pacific ocean waves thundering like bass lines on the beach below..."              the multifaceted smile of vivacious * sparkle * vivid * buoyancy relaxes as the poetic artform and sex kitten drive up the Pacific coast towards the passion a go go of the golden sunset beyond the rock canyons etched with the holographic images of ancient art..."                blow softly winds of the poetic * animal * spirit * as the ocean waves of liquid quicksilver create an exhibition of relaxed curves along Highway One...                "The experimental novel introduces a dialogue on the esthetics of the avant garde : : with the sensual daring of the American innovator to advance the trend of poetic prose towards the ratio of painterly image / sexual preference..."                the black velvet gentleman transforms into a Surrealist object with a splash of cologne as ripples in the water of his liquid persona flow into the flamboyant swash of the typographic hero...              "Your novel is an intimate self-portrait of the book arts characters who evolve with the drifting continents into futuristic maps of the postmodern...                with the literacy of an advanced class admiring the figurative drawing with soft * breasts * silky * satiny in half moon degrees of acute angles...              German Expressionist in bold strokes of the angular big brush conceptual lines...             pleasing the mind / expressing thought with the finer clarity of the masculine style..."               as intricate multi-dimensional images of white cloud formations / wooden ships sail towards Lake Superior beneath an astronomy of velvet glove curves...             written with a positive attitude...              drawn with a vertical crease from a second person perspective..."             the starship is a subtle brush stroke of white mist evaporating into the yellow orange sunlight focused into a roulette wheel of complementary colors defining the female vocalist...               "The tragic surreality of Syria leaves the impression on the mind of the reader of a cloud of smoke ascending from a beige sunlit apartment complex...               positioned before a beige hillside in a time lapse sequence of machine gun staccato...                as the rebel offensive based on a precise judgement has not achieved the goal of a Kaddafy ending...                the turning point : : of the plot line has occurred after the words of the poet Adonis...           when the followers of Muhammad decide to send the foreign troops home..."               the sounds of the machine guns transform into electronic music with rockets panning from the right channel to the center / and then to the left adding increased dimensionality...                "We are creating a consensus of reasonable opinion in the energy * momentum * focus * intelligence of the world leaders who are transformed into a dove of peace...                  symbolized by the United Nations which gives us hope of a peaceful ending with a toast of the champagne..."               the electronic media of the 21st Century internet has evolved into an intricate network of thematic images...              while a more friendly approach to the spirituality of Islam by the United States will improve our chances of world peace...               
"Face to face with the women characters of the coffeehouse the second person narrative describes the rock culture of the Upper Peninsula...               with the children gathered around the antique corrugated metal countertop while the narrator in the formal black shirt reads the introduction written by Sir Roland Penrose...               Desire Caught by the Tail a play by Pablo Picasso written during the German occupation of Paris...               featuring the character Silence who resembles my own narrator in Acquiescent Silence To Induce Dreams and Fantasies within the Equilibrium of Posture..."                the laid back beauty whose short blonde hair flows backwards while a boy holds her on his knees focused in the spherical ovoid shape of the lens creates a let's play attitude...                as a kid shouts out I love him! and life begins at the hop for the new generation of free associational * young * intuitive * scholars...               "A loving gaze at the model who embodies the pleasure of erotic repetition with the narrative logic of love as Surrealist Star Clustered Illuminations transforms into an airplane which takes off from the Stambaugh airport...              reminiscent of Homage to Blériot by Robert Delaunay...                while we look through the windows of the coffeehouse as I contemplate the perceptive comments of Jaime Sabartés...                
who thinks a writer might have the unconscious desire to become a painter and vice versa..."                while the gentleman in formal black shirt admires the fair complexion of the sex kitten who would like to jump ahead in time to the fixed luminous point in the night sky which exists in the logical scheme of narrative regions...                the stellar cloud of diamond lights drawn as the abstract cream white spheres of the cherry tart..."                the sun is encircled by the planets which appear in a timelapse sequence of swirling whirlpool galaxies which symbolize the constellation of the star performer whose tiara is painted in the naked eye equilibrium of the color spectrum...                while reading Five Dreams by André Breton from Earthlight the looks out on the clouds above Stambaugh which reveal meditative faces metamorphosizing into wooden ships sailing south from Lake Superior / having launched Surrealist Star Clustered Illuminations the Surrealists make an appearance with André Breton which gladdens the literary personality with the exceptional prodigies of the new generation / gifted students pursuing the esthetic trend...     thoughts of the damsel in distress a Surrealist object become the exquisite corpse a formal figure to become reinvented as the idea of love * animation * imagination...              the cigarette smoke of the polite lady of vanity fair complexion dating the remember me / contraceptive gold foil gentleman of worthwhile stature decorates the cake with XXX bedtime stories of love at first sight...                reading the compete edition of dancer * story * abstract * intelligence giving head to the reasoning of orgasmic recollections...                desire from the fancy point of view hesitates mindful to contemplate a book proposal / screenplay to estimate the lean and zoom slope of the position perpendicular to her support of an elbow on the table...                pressure on the thin muscular philosophy of sexual preference * tilt * bend * tips an affinity for the lady in scanty attire whose bottomless eyelash is an artifice of smile painted in the illusory oils of cadmium blue / crimson red resembling a crow / a whale swims past the front page...             the appearance of the sublime persona as art critic * literary * artist * merits the precise thrills of the cockatoo / faithful parrot erectile crest of yellow feathers * desert island * species * my favorite book...                a canary red finch descends on the apple tree * echo * repeat * phrases with the vivid colors of the tropics embodying a pantheistic mysticism of the environment...              a bird sanctuary characterized by the broad circles / blend of oil paints into  textured flesh tones written in Finnegans Wake phrases of combination * words * square shouldered black velvet  persona appearing as an abstract allegory of linguistic theory which enhances the XXe plot development with a warm California greeting in our encounter with the cahiers  of contemporary art...                making love for the first time while the professor in tweed reads the advanced * experimental * modernist text savoring the nuances with the cherry blend regenerating meaning from the Surrealist linguistic structures which symbolize * exemplify * erotic wisdom with the conception of the lettering in variations of typeface as the unique expression of the sensual figure...
the Surrealist object composed of desert sands feels sympathy for the exquisite corpse with the philosophy of the Koran where the covenant of non-violence is affirmed in the calligraphic lettering which enhances the book arts meditation on spirituality / the  narrator of the idyllic composition appears as a male mold for the future perfect  tense of the ultramodern avant garde novel which  metamorphosizes into a two volume set...                the flavors of the vintage cabernet sauvignon announce the new generation of young novelists as the charming narrator toasts to the spirit of peace / the pubic stripe sketched in below the face variations in genitalia arousing the plumage of the peacock as another season of solstice of riverrun flows over the rocks of the Iron River...               the family of the gentleman of good breeding creates a four generation genetic line which foreshadows the future mythological evolution of the Great Lakes / traipsing the serene bliss of the joyous * lecture * narratology the gallery of Native American modernist paintings which represent the frock coat of a rock culture character reflected in a 60s psychedelic kaleidoscopic mirroring of geometric forms: triangular sections * squared * multi-sided images rotating in a circular orbit around his desk...                the twelve string guitarist strums with a flourish on his casual journey hiking the nature trails along a promontory which precipitates into a classroom where the professor in tweed jacket discusses narrative perspectives / the youthful head of the literary student is carved from blocks of stone along the mountain path while he admires the cute butt of the student asking a question before him...               he might like to make a date with the heart shaped figure whose shoulder length golden is visible within the spectrum of light / a model drawn in a ratio of curved breasts to a glass of pinot noir prominent within the creature comforts of the enlightened mind as she crawls forward on all fours across the surreality of the social network...               the XXX figure in tank top t shirt gets a feel for the spontaneous action of the nightlife as sparrows land on the apple tree outside the window / the Jesus minaret ascends above the city of Damascus as the call to evening prayer is heard with a prophecy of the future second coming...                that Jesus would return again at the end of the world to descend upon the minaret / as the literary scholar relaxes in the evening light thinking through each idea * plotline * time frame * a novel that continues where another left off in an endless discussion of narratology... reading Ulysses by James Joyce the novelist considers the comments on Hamlet by Stephen Daedalus and the paradox put forth by the African that a father is himself his own son...  the ghost of a chance considers the abstract persona seated in the oil painted dimensions of the interior * intellect * candlelit * cranium where the ingenious model on stage projects the idea of genius to the mind of the architectonic form / a mover who originates within the time frame of the novelistic space... 

David Detrich  

David Detrich is Editor of Surrealist Star Clustered Illuminations, and he lives in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. His first novel Big Sur Marvels & Wondrous Delights (2001) is available from Innovative Fiction Magazine, an online literary magazine which he edits. He has just completed an ultramodern Surrealist novel written in minimal squares called The Convergence of Two Narrative Lines Ascending which is looking for a publisher.