Four Poems by Landscape Destruction Company

debwage

sunken-in fixed rate
unbreathings

palmy hiking up the coast line
of snowy tumeric phglemed
egrets

regretting
water
regretting
air

student-hospital-
billed flying
anchored down
thrown
&shaking

dung lung
quaking

on strike quacking

GENERAL quacking

barri-gliding the
(river) banks
no money (back)
forgaging through
foreclosures
&nesting

cresting overturned
dusks
&inhaling flips
of micsol
crust

n    r
o        e
i          s
t          t
a   r   o

creating every absence

skeeding fibrorous
soilings

muddy flapping
entwinings

SPURT

but offacuet lurkenings

clogged dumpings

neck-heavy crusteceans

snipping

loudly SNIPPING

(O)ccupy

stranded horses
violet n-(s)landing
circle backed
en-smallings

fingers tracing
cement-mixed
carton habits

&crinkly
creaves cuffed
&puffed into
atmospheric stuffing

clocking into
smog-based friendships
downward facing wog

collapsing
&apps sing

as blades drip
sawing &yawing

towards each outbreak
of outlaw
togetherness

rows of roses
canoeing
petals of
submarine yellow
unfolding flamings

&smelting
rings
&rings again
around broken split chantings

ONCE

torched ochre oceans

steamy
grazings

clash-lict fleshings

con-meldment
in the destruction of
agon-structuring

struck down settlering
wagon-grips
wheeled around unground
until sparmist en-chix-ings

melodic hatch sings
b/w petalands

less bound leapings
already leakin 
     ggg

leak&leap

Misanthro-types

piles of trash all abandoned and lived in
car wash bandits sling one more toxic margarita
it has magnet graffiti the push and pull of colors
reclaimed over local business misanthro-types
working for you deciding who is responsible

honestly dump your dog-truck
grooming is dirty, it smells

owners who wish they were transients
living in quarters
living on quarters
washing machines been homeless encampments

you know nobody local tattoo shop owner
two guys with bikes stick and poke
a hole in the fence with better technique than
your vacant car work-droppings

the bad more people you know
the bad reputation we bunch together
forgetting that that they shouldn’t breach

consuming drugs corner tunnel outside-inside
cool waters been filing and sealing
code enforcement case containment
assigned officer should within guiness records
show the most entered agreement on out to the car

their plans make locations soapy
bubbly statements bring value through maritime jobs
new location final stages cars anticipate the end

coin-operated county bash coming soon meanwhile
avenue crayfish boils into hope moving in amongst
the leftovers


sparkling heat transforms area
(they keep it clean) clean
clean had been always really safe
bring that nothing else no one else

wave round rhythm drowning

“Desire...-the sea in which we are drowning, and which gives us birth at the same moment.”
-Kajsa Bergh

wave round rhythm drowning
         repeat what you love
create/lack burst desire
         love what you repeat 

web dance sparkle crash
        move what you love
step in/out step
         love what you move

moon shatter tsunami beauty
         dream what you love
irises wild sweet silk
         love what you dream

comfort storm terrace bound
        destroy what you love
self scroll eviction romance
        love what you destroy

infinite amber galaxy touch
        create what you love
sing chroma wind refrain
        love what you create

wave round rhythm drowning
        repeat what you love
create/lack burst desire
         love what you repeat

Landscape Destruction Company (LDC) is a project on occupied Kumeyaay land (so-called San Diego) looking for a poetics that understands land as relation. A poetics that actively pursues the derangement of captured language. Their poetry has been published by Blood+Honey Lit, and they have more forthcoming from Paraselene. Their multi-media work can be found at https://landscapedestruction.wordpress.com/