On Reaction

Calvin Pennix

On Reaction

Calvin Pennix

Differentia Press

Santa Maria, CA

On Reaction

Calvin Pennix

Copyright © 2013

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Published by Differentia Press

Book Design by Felino A. Soriano

Cover Art, “boomboom”, courtesy of Calvin Pennix

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Thank you to the editors of On Barcelona, New Mystics and Lightning’d Press, where parts

of this collection appear

COMMUNICATED CONFIDENCE

At a loss

one begins in

italics

Additional markings

communicate confidence

in upwards of …

situating a main point

As distracted avoidance

and clearly defined

however

it’s a fragment

How far does blue

A CALL FOR INTERPRETATION

but still there’s a position of acquiring

which is cause for concern of immediacy A call for interpretation produces a finite infinity that stretches to a personal end

Black

Left White

Right

Up

Blue Down

Seven Lenses widen as they shrink

when one steps outside themselves

allowing for the music to be heard

This impatient used to sprout in the spring

A COLLECTION OF LESSER DISTINCTION So as it happens notoriety concedes to hatred Apart from each we speak in monotone allowing wiggle room An expansion is welcome in conversation

o o a watering daylight o o a collection of humanity

Recognition

other than metaphor represents those of lesser distinction who have overcome the struggle

which is a necessity to

o Glow o Flourish o Shine o Grow

Finally a check worth mentioning is prevalent

ABSTAINING FROM FALTERING

Perseverance

as it stands expectantly

as a barrier

that molds and corrodes outside spatial quality divides itself in many directions abstaining from faltering though teeter it may Residue begins to compile

feverishly

giving in to spastic sights seen through perforated vision

LEADING IS ANOTHER MATTER A landing

stuck

leaves no room for interpretation

Who

What When

Where Why

How

Square root

or squared The inverse takes on a following that follows the followers

leading is another matter

An enclosed space

has its fourth wall broken

a gaze produces anxiety

Memorizing a memory changes its definition

REGISTERED AS OPAQUE

Things exist in differing modes of

o stasis o closure o finality

A decent person

waiting to be allowed to breathe reaches for the surface as it continuously appears

This contempt registers its status as opaque

though object leers nearby

VOID THE VISION OF EMPTINESS In the distance

shriveled with age

the purple posits a reckoning

but vows in its stillness to void the vision of emptiness Registered with adornment the landscape expands at a minimal clip and light provides nourishment

while sifting through the gravity With exaggerated amplification

this ornamentation speaks in tones audible

though masked under a differing sense Archived as permanently expandable

is this instant this instant this instant

DISJOINTED BY ITS OWN CONNECTIVITY Down and around

on Barbadanes1 that contributes to the landscape a condition of bluntness

nevertheless a condition The fall preceding the rise presents as necessity disjointedness by its own connectivity We employ a place that has pounded itself into deconstruction Alas we celebrate its openness and present it as variously configurable bits stiffened by a kind of rigor mortis Down and around on Barbadanes

1 the street

not a metaphorical street but an actual street

GUIDES THE RESERVES A collection of stock resists

in varying forms of conflicting grandeur

allowing for instances of seclusion

Demonstrative displays as deterrents

act as barriers withholders of the miniscule

((((bright browns highlighted

with black)))) fostered for such a presentation

The empowered portion

guides the reserves intensifying the delusion

REPURPOSING CONTROLS THE SOUNDS Obtuse accuracy relies on a perspective of change as authors persuade

gathering identities Repurposing controls the sounds as we arrive shortly effecting our own attribution and causing stasis

inching

stasis stasis placing a premium on being a commodity A straightening spiral

opens at a wide angle

access easily attained

PERPENDICULAR TO EVERYTHING To discredit belies an allowance of judgment The sound of night

distorts an aroma’s hue

leaving its nakedness concealed Hands appear pristine pristine only because they are empty

and angled perpendicular to everything

TRANSLATIONS OF INTRICATE SYSTEMS But then again what we call for is sustenance The ability to

o speak o write o think

Is not a given

and comes with a price What do we pay

or withhold to become transparent

within ideals We hold these truths

I often wonder

World peace We employ a stance

that mirrors others but yet deviate to make it our own

There was once a place that we held dear it has been torn apart by what we hold dear Varying forms

serve as translations

of the most intricate systems in a bouquet

that holds its silence

amongst ceremonial opposition

EXISTING IN READINESS Deferral against participation

elides a knowing

slowed by casual connectiveness empowered by consumption

Absolutes speak no equal resist categorizing

elitists in logic

Figures being unified amongst a background of figures

Some readiness exists

digresses in a mass of digressions

but not before a slow dance

a rhythm prone to deter filtering a domain in the last possible seconds and we stand and oblige the lack of topical relation extending through a scope

disclosed as historical

AN INNATE VICARIOUSNESS

In correspondence to the lowest plane of mental capacity we go down

around 11

give or take

An episode of waking life

Man

Tree

Tree

Man

Inertia is built through lack of action

an innate vicariousness on display

though missed in sight

A narcissistic mimicry carries a hint of truth

realness

that belies perception

and allows for interpretation simulating an appearance of submission

We exert a compulsion of bowing to necessity

then vow to defeat it

DIMENSIONS OF EXTENSION Undocumented resources

downgrade somewhere between this and that

looming

in hopes of waiting for

ascension amongst unrehearsed chemicals

Domain: {humans} Range: {culture}

A dimension of extension

allows for one of time Put up against oneself

there’s a retreating The trick of being alive is something about having an outside which can be witnessed and an inside that can’t

Though they vary in size

one tends to walk in circles

STRUCTURED W/ POTENTIAL A chance [word]

upon paper

may destroy [the world] as a window [ ]

also acts as a wall |

||

as consequence

it becomes impenetrable

A sour stench seeps through a loss

o innocence

o time

o capacity

portrayed as inductive

posits procrastination […]

structured with potential