1.
Of my
Soul a street is:
Preternatural Pic-
abian tricktrickclickflidk-er
garner
of starfish Picasso
thrombosis trees
hit
my soul
repairs herself with
Prioress of Shari mind
and Matisse rhythms
to juggle Kandinsky gold-exchange-standard
away from the grind gifted
muscles of Cèzanne’s
logic
Oho.
A streamer
There is
where stramineous birds purr
2.
Picasso
you give us Things
which
bulbous: grunting lungs pumped fulgurate of Shari They mind
you make us shriek
presents always
shut in the sump screech of
simplicity
(out of the
bizarre unbolted
Something gushes vaguely a squeak of planes
or
between squeals of
Nothing grabbed with circuit breaker shrieking tiger-eye
solicitation screams whisper.)
Lumberman of the Distillation
your brain’s
axe only chops hued inherent
Trees of Ego, from
whose living and bifoliate
bodies lopped
of every
preternatural
you hew form true time
The above two poems originally composed by e.e. cummings have been given the 5 up adjective treatment whereby each original adjective is replaced by the preceding 5th word in the dictionary. Normally this is a 7-up process but I like the number 5 better.
Image of painting by Wassily Kandinsky, Yellow-red-blue, c. 1925 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
