Steve Timm have published 3 books of poetry: This's That (There Press, 2016), and Un storia (2010) and Disparity (2006), both with BlazeVox. He teaches English as a second language at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Steve Timm also a performer of improvised sound poems (e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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1. “Proxumal (Nearest)”
I feel the unstrangle fiddle the flance longe profellant
idledove stardand fell fane
fair
and fat tint
ofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofoofofof
shedgerdemands
thet fuckfence stent flensile
morbly deg vile man her middle hance
hidlious envature of the Theythers
it
means we are mader than we’d like or thought
the
estrangeneities sweevetile savethoughers
enthoughtened
lightery
trill
trickestal alivering makenth aye me this i refwashed and fervenched
strolls me ears and thrall
isosonasymmetral
zeal ont, my lithely honnery be
suswunged
whatty matters
badpressy dentublakhan bankerpasture as he was aka’ed
cozeneded
vercure tethyeh bluzes verities
theewankenda
volunteery munge tarry-eynd focusear
<inneedlepaused>
isincutane ligzuriant dastened a commæ’ forpennance
psyzing
cuneifutane zooks riancy tolerancid acneifumed macaoan naif forplent
that ’d ’o
’t
kazoons and bonebows
briccuppy
stribbon gudders
cluds
and zades, dures and ursts
huzzle accountenancers bindal secorns
ieties
and titudes
—doozy’ll’n’t mean i wickened cuttend
zoundly
fedated and hizomynous ashrayamn
de-am
fiantal aver’cordex pliample
throbless
lessheart butilely i stillgone
ruttingly
tingleroutined
tyrironannically
acutened to thentish touchédes
vernstal
thessuno the miso soltychs plaindeent tossine
surcrive
antelse?
or gaveline gravules the lands aims
slaymants
vergains virogynes
gyrumphant
glooker cungelics quive as mowl
thate
aches acks acts as morrire
there
is none of the riffical
T HES E A RE MO MEN T S !
foredamnitted fecpurls stidgings
spanchings wrengs terribulencies
ove vorters
di-gnoscient achtenders
migh
chai tessage sautosteal
vamooserive
cahootuant shebangatural hootenants
vortering
onces dabout
viperants
and culperants
burst glass vibrants, stiff urgents
stavory
versivals
valce inflements ifles and disiguremands
chi’
gures iced-ingurds
stinge-ers,
jumblestigms, stitalmerchers
loansy beadsm jiltrens, yone gode’s
sundlikedly to merge to your sight
so lie on you’re the ears
and
them fingers was captīved
cuz
de mains
<track 2>
see they hear ı mean and that can can make
heard
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2. “Tellurian (Pertaining to Earth or its
Inhabitants)”
Swelt bathural dauber drumcan
tore folds of the stuff
blump stunane middled
with zerosures
side
language glosh distillent moned wet awking slamblance
see
jodge me not yuntless your guilt i spussect
it is a order a crayontle jeyuzzus
fraycontile
abscondrite vermortant
a
scrapebyer no very send
widged at the hintgarture a saesan or so a
half
suckling blue a saffringe’d sigh
a liearner anafliance canny vermember was
it uh or nuh
fly
forns aches semmitch thrivelling brattards
well-accuss
me, Moy-Wa-Ha
dazz
lay fizz wattlesy pleampole do say do and donor-siló
glitch
mad rife diggledy
so c’here’s a wolofian joge, moanin cheriflefy
pasture
knog woes
dare cy born site leper whoon satellite of lunve
rue
lead aweigh far wankler
thelemin
i emmeant, self nighed fellar anter
it is the nowhere i like the abouts off it the verineverine lander
no
play like laund of loamsome deedle auder
laund
o’ deeds, yezzerine shamesifter and maychant maneer
thaint
a starretter cuddledove braked me the twoer
oaten
woe silkicon levee patter denauster
murmil
of pother pards ons as deferench uddive youen due
flowappency
wind-doin’s shunter touthingk
inic trivuals murgsy mes do i count as firming echo quary
i
splen’t as i clou’n’t de swee churchric
seeder
sewn
in the sewerd’s nepths a worn totherwise
insurd
a nocle-on that’s the placent
we limp in sorbital tryin’s
survivitive
amcumbrents
loam
lettors sloyal tilitands
delaver anyme emny time you sowed
zealirette
i’
dissue i luhshorned, sweath
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3. “Alumo”
Stanking
deluzial full lisional provenids drast astasy
fetodes on the jeround
wingsaway of a culipers
why fescent the lips the sound cremates
well la-di-loint, lackajaunter, a fit
taint your loiter clawth
culowany curucis glandy vernile the
knacker’s chest
thumpersand awegains
reumphirant sessoul
yowely rattenloyr
one
i picks ones mIddence pore and weasel
why did you liegen
your suffer tassel slantern fall idled
to
aumnal revities i sung lumb musses
zint even that you think butchery dew
braille
we shaker mundcomity as / tends,
padrens, urnest unhelderings
renitic
plunduition, cirrhence, thrombonesc chivers diapers
fricalent tattirers take a spense a contáckaviral
hen mercies plung veridualities a
cot, lessy
thenged
ceramies dorn a loont fracacidehooed kiln cowce? wide anmitous azoo
key
roud pluctongue thether jully dinge dange the oughtré ganglemar
the
furrique ash cue winch
what
if they was was they
they w
panths
afearer fings be unsetted azimighth
a mutey sconcrel sour loden
peelray
aimeners predu
comvercialants dull digestence dunned adin
joinet
strugendure suggendival itch wend
nont mwah nwah flim genter anonly mesonite
macerable
emesobi that’s motherfucker of course
forstoont
aphid
daint its depids rudition for
spart claved c-lavids shoodowette
when simply you are cleft to you er use
um
no
hezzes here, honorous wuns
jumps the plent ruth the terivable
avalencies
chouce, baymbe, the resurrectures of pense
the
bewievabiw astunts befornous
bear
noose and trickle serk
swedged
oh favorissimism
sweazy tug nativalist
scapeglow
smatter gorgeantic beaugeous tattampanillery vamoozer
what clother would you want
what fan or fenal veent
reet
a go-ran-ranrandiantsemilly
is
it as so?
temb
do devide, latently late empt
sembliers
untine the crowffers abd cobers
een whean unknownests compline is gard powr statuskics matindonts
offknow
dude, the thame
and, deed
very inces ensers zealures
woll
did them fuckandras sore fauned
tore
folds of it
scenced scrapertules unwot er helftolled
ziens
of simmery of cameras unsbled
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4. “Tayassus Pecari”
<with
intrenchance tuppauce afforcesought>
Arterry masked assel flithe at the
combinatorium
whatrins this grostle a friest sarked azoly
hello
dere uncle stigpin
do
howled yoodoo, tefforizer
fetentioner and
lexicautioner
to take care menses to care
of tha test
cautments meandt
andeur
glanted
fascive errogrance suporstangeal
frigatives and quilids, stubs and wovels
the woundsands of lozzed
unslaced, incondrolible, ensconded
terr me dorn laterive off your whiskency
the davel
dreckonian coddlements fellaw-bonaed the
unfeeance
singely beloned,
canst aslide, ratirical monister
agents
poligumes so chuste terrivals as birds eh
or lingure porricks at their shities
muckensing to freeroam the vulgerment
what the glove ate? i nask a youer who than
you’re, yon glan splant
lemmings way sow bud sawved i mean a
sowbug a flavor gadgeten
thronly sanings suddowing gackside
ornithing
napture ratiently
<thissèd
whear>
who cun wan a gazer finder gripler tanxter
f-f-f-f-f-f-f
strop!
marvelent! what metals the future
pone
limpers dentate their unciliance their ancivile assiloence
scrope!
drang feerls scavern tabenges
you
donut canowble dust cha
frames!
lack of curbs!
you
wondern’t naiven copse hooyure
did
you strafe your fidzeal to the rupeen
grazed
pirates! gracious grazies
stoll
mirants attacadge midstle pernposes biancoming
saze
forange
chaze
the murmutes clozz the fenizon swea
it’s the likeliest liken, smades oonce
cousers
commonal
wan coman
<zumd>
impareil
whatwhat rapprotch emendary but they when a did at froms toothed
cowl’embacks drab street caul as ensigns pirants diddates mobual betach
szawsz
at the quenges sgorrose finids
reloom
fortunatous
certains make of a dipes stain to
toolerance
inspeculmined tads flutternost
earbringearbringer, clod-bleling
swanthud
reticumules at the grengemiller’s bald assoaring roaratives
sweatgapes
pundleboyerds gazzasawdruth pidgesloppen
what
a what a getwill, whithle ya?
stamswer
and swiles
whadda
the likes the loofs twikelying
stammerpod
piebaldal ascentives dizzy sackers tonin’
coffinouned
deverberent neverend striper
puling bullet resononder
death
pulls a dart
the sick wells in their whency
the other gull word a tonna ponk to
brivato ta or tuh
teeutteredy parrel ingiter swoons happen to triremes
dungsies
enjark ombunksmane swordy
idolecty
deeked
infarctune sheart
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5. “Peat”
Waitressing the wadders
was
spools norminal div wases wasats
iswads and wadwhats
to
sich engerained figns
ints
dovecoted endrence to a viaisible criaving
tooken
a took token to vedelired
rompises and prompletons
rapaced busual thrungs of cowders
you hajjed your pratifles to korage your
clingids
well
i said you,yunneled catbagary
baseclank bill of heans and sheites
vortal martyr diese at the repesode
hanjure
nighny outréwah sathes a sequetion
you
wouldn’t now you were wrong until you dideye
woundoo of woe slabicles of sowor gyrf-anon
stern-to-snuds
growed-agon
hathet
rhoymes
<brick>
foot hinder hind aliomimeo allorhiny dread
stinny lossal fwords worn aegean
nandlecoot
secclusioner common nail chirr folliscle
eyefoaled
wotter pinies foncer
sluttile detend slendral dentillas
this
is forty neighther a vuh
kohldern
loplop, forwent i dewritcha indewickatime siccenine
that’s
suckletash in a flawvored tonegue
gutetainting
it, abbituarntua?
welsure oddrock owin’ tree
finesen
zenperch sommyside countrup assayed semipissy virer
jigglaufry
selloff reacheter calvastry
die
pain gehilla if yoodamy anjel yadoo
best
poke porxy swineire sostyne-a-wail
syndalla torcets, dixem puppet
stragule vee strangule, shutteruggedler
pedan
saddenistra felth andily laise, fair lasso aferal asslehoe
tangent me where i pleige lick me flazebok soot ferished cherooq
chumped
consondands ashored in tiren volefleace
fanging
shoures atuite zeffryn soowery prillains
squat
for raince
feal jahooded
javeline
sconcy ally usten sposible
yammy
refuse stange meer the
noosuelle
we
acknause aweal
we
dually fluffiles of doty unthers as wheedle we-dom
i
corrent let allele lone i
pale
drum proadge
grimuyana
knees flect