Midland

By Quillan

"FOR BITTEN LIPS AND SUBTLE SLIPS
OF SWOLLEN TONGUES
ARE SOLACED BY OIL AND WINE,
AND BY SOIL AND LOAM"

MIDLAND

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Nov 30, 2011
• ISBN: 9781462060146

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Contents

Nonet I

Kept Wraiths and Wishes

Libidinous Hues

Coitus of Fingers

Thin Ditties and Dirges

O’er Tips of Lusty Oaks

By Cull Pro Concord

A Lovely Breach

Her Thighs’ Tattoos

Nómadas y Trovadores

Nonet II

Fondling the Romanza

Without Words

E. A. Poe

Damn Gambits

Sounds of Hammered Coils

Rome à la Mode

Diaspora

Las Palabras Sobreentendidas

A Love de Trop

Nonet III

Upon Midland He Dances

Libidinous Hues, Hideous Clues

Interceding Smithereens I

Interceding Smithereens II

El Catafalco de Rosas

Doors to Her Sixties

The Dulcet Autarchy

Homeless Harlequins

Transcendental Intercourse

Nonet IV

Wizen and Wax

Los Diez Cantos

Bangkok in Memphis

The Human Syntax

Il Sesso e Niccolò dei Machiavelli

Arabesque

Lettered on Epic Pages

Her Prague, His Berlin

La Languidez Surrealista

Nonet V

Lounges of Ataxias

Scratch

Cadaverous Discourses

Sniff

The Dialectic Stones

Chronicles

Solace as per Sun-Fucked Seas

Parasol and Carrousel

Nescience’s Gaze

A Goddamn Trilogy

Hinterland

Midland

Heartland

Nonet VI

Hamburg

Gouache

Vomit

Time

Line

Line II

Gardens

Country Empire

Proverb

Nonet VII

Anapestic Arborescence

Freesia

Bullets and Bricks

Aspires Mid Spiral

Grind

The Miracle of Peace

Regarding Peace

Despoil de Novo

By Note, Lyric, and Flame

Crystal Chairs

Nonet VIII

Hispaniola

Falcon and Dove

Hastening to taste her latter dew

Thence Envy Strangely

Toqué La Luna Callada

The Anguished Face

O’er Nudities the Damselflies

The Damselflies Dragoon Airily

Damselfly Wings

El Libro y La Rosa

Nonet IX

Stimuli a Posteriori

Cannon Fodder

Mimics of Subconscious Magic

La Ciudad Fronteriza

Copulations and Martinis

Messina’s Moist Loins

Gypsies

Valley of Vapors

Fingering Poetry

Slow Rains of Vicious Haikus

Afterbirths

Revolution is a Fuss

All Things Random

Vagabond Shadows

Mid Ambulant Twilights

Fragments

Twenty-Five Verses on Silence

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Editor / Photographer / Back Cover Designer

Megan A. Carlson-Reed

- Pennsylvania -

Artist / Front Cover Designer

Calvin Morris

- Tennessee -

Associate Editors

Whitney R. Hale

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María Belén Lassus

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Fanny Palacios

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Julian D. Rothschild

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Alexander R. Schorr

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~ Books by Quillan ~

Epistola

December 2001

Epistola II - Forever Dance Naked

October 2003

Epistola III - Soul Wanderings

September 2005

Commentaries by an American Poet

December 2006

Passionate Lucidity

March 2009

To my uncle and aunt for being compassionate listeners as well

offering timely words of encouragement.

David W. & Mary M. Campbell

To my three very tolerant daughters.

Rox, Jessie, & Aly

And to my youngest brother and friend… he is missed by many.

Bruce Andrew Stone

(1964-2010)

Midland

mid-land [mid-luh nd]

-noun

1.   the middle part of a country or region.

2.   (initial capital letter) the dialect of English spoken in the central England, also the dialect of English spoken throughout the southern Appalachians.

3.   (initial capital letter) the mid-south region consisting parts of Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi with the city of Memphis as the geographical center (for this book only).

4.   an approximate mean spatially between two or more ideological ends (for this book only).

5.   part of a woman's anatomy (for this book only).

The rise, the sighs

The breath taking sides

`Tween musk and mist

O’er tips of lusty oaks

The tryst of ridges arching

While moaning low

from O’er Tips of Lusty Oaks

Nonet I

In pith of her crux lithely lurk the gestures

Her writhes of body entices his mirth

The living myth of dying lore

Now erotic apothegms of eternal slurs

from A Lovely Breach

Kept Wraiths and Wishes

23 August 2009

Location: Meeman-Shelby Forest (Millington, TN)

Note:

Came across a pile of garbage while hiking today (fuck it). Still, the park possesses beautiful wooded areas, surprisingly unknown to many… continued at Walnut Grove and Racine (Memphis, TN), modified on 26 August 2009.

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Crowfoot (Blackfoot orator, 1830-1890)

Frozen antiquities on the grassy gossamer mounds

Heaving from sounds indigenously concupiscent

Coffee grounds and cans round on aqueous slips

Transported by intrusive ships upon held planes

Fried voguish piths and chichi cellophane arrayed

Deranged, where are the green fuckin’ machines

Of intended consumption, sucking refuse and shit

Where’s gumption of mind, collaboration of soul

All lost at sea of Self, the masturbated end of want

Castrated is the savant’s agility and perspicacity

When prowling the popular orbs and lifeless planets

Banal magnets of bromidic works by ferine canines

Artlessly sniffing their own malodor claiming chic

They sing, save troubadours, `tween blood-mantles

Her crimson cheeks exhort the passion thirsted after

While pendulums suspend down cruxes and thighs

Lift high the ambrosial skirt low the autumn squall

Veracity in rain, simply stained on betrothed hips

Lips so closely avowed as lovers repose to brows

Vexed by Morrigan’s fury, writhed while mounted

Amidst emotive flurries to swirling visceral eddies

In midland, her fervid river that fondles his shiver…

O Breath a breeze, the other’s air, burgeons the zeal

And heals abysmal feels of kept wraiths and wishes

Libidinous Hues

29 August 2009

Location: near South Main and Pontotoc (Memphis, TN)

Note:

Written while listening to Jane Birkin’s album Enfants D'hiver.

Therein the cool of her eyes

And warmth of her voice

Lies deeply allayed in solitude

The woman's nakedness

Herself unadorned, unclothed

Raw beauty manifested

Mysteries revealed, inured

Brushed with libidinous hues

Never suffered by gods

Her skin the artist's canvas

Penned with ardent locutions

Never uttered by mobs

Her soul the poet's