"Profices" by Jane Gregory
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JANE GREGORY
PROFICES
• That it goes from all shall be well to oh well Knock knock Everything is a pattern of yesses and no • Now is only not otherwise & sobriety is death for the moon is a licked wound, the glimmering innards of a ripped whale & obscures the world’s terrific exit • Obscured, the world’s terrific (Exit) I want to thank what is clear for the grimness, what the future’s retrojection
bore a hole right through, the
.commune where/as it currently stands • And what The moon thus shed its singleness as if it were real and behold: The world’s terrific • Why do I need my ideas validated for
me the index of prophecy is light So that I understand the world with all its signatures visible Light, icicles, feces, profit Of
the world Was made Panic And then its exit Imiseration Graced • |
PROFICES
• I understand where all this is going so
nothing I anticipate happens except to what it happens upon. Everything takes great effort though I am more and worse than a coupon. For what will you go to this? For what shall you like it? • For what we are is each their users and what else not to be overcome • Though there must be a bad vortex— said everyone’s where they find
themselves— since everything Hey Everything takes great effort • I roll I roll I roll yr eyes as Friday complies though I am not following What of it stop it Though I am not following or what of
it stops • What if it stops? Whelm the field— Whelp it Whelm the field Yr
face ok’d My shame & by it Help it |
PROFICES
• Driven to no tone • what is all that shit you have figured out credit-lapse time-score • Neither put forth as a specific soldier My face surprised / by the hand that put something in him My mouth surprised by the hand that
put
• This way it won’t be for very long Not for much will the flayed be sucked up thru a straw Not for much longer Whther
or not I have a sense of it, young history, I hate it. |
PROFICES
• The day felt it was an event. The last is only imaginary but there is speed without your time. • Their ill to believe everything
issues from flesh the bells dry bones the
wind breath fouled by the corners of their mouth where they keep how she feels about herself. • Soon it would be less easy for him to contain what they aren’t in what he said. Survivre,
the sun soon allied to the wound, the word to the gesture the living conceal,
the living conceals the end it protects • I shall come to rest in the crotch of the tree Jesus thought of God as I the Internet because i
know myself God cannot be a man you guys and what else not everything takes great effort right and is in my nature to be wrong and redeemy
even wrong about lord somebody else’s most fundamental beliefs so i’ve
given up all your gentleness for you try hard to take it back, for when the dead equal all created and the archive lives for itself and on what decays the map of decay, and though all my feelings just go about and
like I just cannot or it is too early to
try to feel anymore how it is so late or simply I am that way, weird, how things seem ways, how some pleasures are not good for
you, work. |
Jane Gregory is from Tucson and now lives in California. Her first book, My Enemies, was published by The Song Cave.