RUS KHOMUTOFF
Rus Khomutoff (US). I have been seriously writing poetry since 2015. In 2016 I published my debut collection Immaculate Days(Alien Buddha Press) then in 2019 I published a chapbook called Radia(Void Front Press).Last year I published Color Poems(Orbis Tertius Press)Over the years my writing has appeared in X-Peri,San Francisco review of books, New Mystics, Proprose magazine & Silver Pinion. My personal blog is radiaworld.tumblr.com
UNDERTOW
Annihilating the real
venus impossible fathom lines of
a mystery front
in a forever empty vein
satan tango anthropic wildfire
correct wing answer addiction
instamatic endlessness
transformative astonishments
dominion fragments that proclaim a rupture
spitfire ragged edge
children of the decadent pause
on a scatterbrain pedestal nevertheless
FUTURE MEMORY OF MINE THE NOCTURNAL OPACITY OF THE RITE/VOIDWALKER ANALEPSIS/FESCENNINE UNBECOMING GHOST OF MEMORIES OF FALLEN AFTERHOURS/INDUSTRY OF CHROME SYCAMORE PASTICHE/MELANCHOLY OF TRIBE CANICULAR DAYS/TO OVERWRITE THE EMPHASIS SKELETON KEY REVIVAL/SAD CAFE IMMORTAL/MUSCULAR INTIMACY OF DISTANCE & CROSSING BONE/PRIMROSE LEISURE WORLD/THESE BASTARD COUNTERPROOFS CHAMELEON CHARADE STAR CODE CHALICE/WONDERMENT CYCLORAMA/I AM YOUR WORST FEAR, I AM YOUR BEST FANTASY/CALENDAR OF MARBLE REINCARNATION LIKE AN ORANGEHEX FLOATING IN THE AFTERMATH/LATE NIGHT FINGERS HOTLINE HAPPENSTANCE PENDING/INTO A SPHERE OF YOUTHFUL SYMPATHY RIDES THE THIEF OF YOUTH ON THE FLOOD OF RECOLLECTION/HOW IS THE FORMLESS GIVEN FORM?/VISION LOCKED IN STONE/THERE IS NO ESCAPE FROM THIS AXIS OF DUPLICITY/STRANGE FINESSE NO MATTER WHAT THE MOOD/NO SOUL TWIN NOTES HOTEL IMAGINE-
MIME THE ARCHAIC HOURS UNCONTAMINATED BY REASON CRYSTAL ICE DUB LAMENT ACHROMATIC MANDALA OF WEAPONIZED MELANCHOLY SLOT CANYON HIGHBREATH ABSENT LOGIC MOON WHISPER NETWORK SYCAMORE PASTICHE DOWN PERISCOPE DEACON ANARCHY UNTITLED CHILD/TENOR SHIELD INCONSEQUENCE MYSTERY SCHOOL TURBULENCE ONE MAY REMEMBER OR FORGET/ THE GAZE OF THE AMBASSODORS TO PAUSE & BE ALL THINGS IN ALL TIME NO HONEY BUT ECSTASY, NO DESIRE BUT FULFILLED, NO PASSION BUT PEACE THE MECHANISMS OF YOUTH OR THE BLESSED WORD HAS NO MEANING/ FEEL SOMETHING CROSSING AVENUE PERSPEX TENOR SHIELD INCONSEQUENCE RETROSPECT MIND TRANSPARENT STAR WANDERING FIRE THIS FACE IS A TRAVELING SILENCE/RED NOTICE HYPOSTASIS GLASS ANIMALS LIFE ITSELF/THE REAL UNREAL EXOTIC PULSE LIKE A HALO & THE HIGHWAY/PALOMA STEAM DEEPFEEL LAVENDER KITE PEAK RING PROXIMITY WHO WILL REMAIN/SOUL OF SERENE PRAXIS UNDERNEATH MANIC SEAS/AUTUMN CRY OPULENCE TENDER SYMMETRY LIKE A TRIANGLE & A DUEL SOULSTORM INSTRUMENTALITY MIDNIGHT MEDICINE SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS CHAMPAGNE SUPERNOVA FETISH PLEDGE SKELETON KEY REVIVAL TRIOLET HYMN OCEAN MACHINE SCREAM OF SWIFTS
MYTHAXIS
I was hand, body, liquid ruled by the dark seas/rapture honeycombed in flesh/crosscurrents of understanding/horrorotica mythaxis grind/describes what the new normal is like/streaming eye of syndication/this is one of those moments when everything coalesces/conversations with the light/wishpenny inflections/give a heart across a hundred evenings in the sire of the battle cry/blood testament life/marathon premium stay true machine sympathy stigma to status story ritual burying the cruel truth/sorry,not sorry celebrity news/what we are doing is harboring the savage point/master of metaphor decium riff/one does not dream, one is dreamed/wisdom in the foam sword words equidistant/calm over everything just like the unspeakable word/and these questions they give us no rest/one indivisible and forever/arm of exuberance, shore of elan/tale of the loop/orbit dance doctor tomorrow/howl of the deranged protocol infinite terrain spawning infinite game/noise of the crimes between us/theartifice.com/override the remembering gain/street fever decennial hybrid mind embrace/jettison the feel phantom drift assuming the mask. Overthrow the self/an airborne disease, a beautiful thing that never happened/glistening in the rays of a distant supernova,mercurial staff take your breath away/pirate blood/nautical dawn/wild blossom/intercept canvas redux,church of trees scream in silence.There was superimposition & worry at a certain hour of the day/hyena season genesis grasp secret psalm in search of duende/this eventuality’s carnival row exit in memory reclaiming time with unexpected grace notes/vagabond of the margins/burning up the green guardian/assignations crestfallen between music & silence/carnivalesque Xerox & infinity/ dimension horizon stasis leak everlasting/cherub chance the undying matter anticipating nowhere/theramin cost victim of illusion priceless channel /follow me into the reprieve best private fantasy times two/taste of holiday gross hesitation/to dance in the dark without fear/imperial violets distant shore/venerable plight/checkered koan/the other side of no tomorrow/the lost symbol/ naked reflections complex crossed/prism walls infolio segmented balsam flex/new letters renaissance hum/a guessing game of infinity/ fastpass body everything/a painted sea of semiprecious stones interrupted by the illusion of time/sentimental rove the beginning/depthcruiser hour of pearl wayward son dispatches/ skin of wind, skin of streams, skin of shadows, the secret of numbers unscrambling the distortions/infinite perimeter/melancholy body sacrilege/tattoo highway insomnia punk/passion post of the absent everyday/venus endeavor ministering blithe spirits/wonderment cyclorama/lost in the omnipresent origin echo unlimited/mirror for mankind/thorn exhortation
Welcome to your afterlife hollow point arrive unfurling a gaze/valorization of open as opposed to closed/pain superimposed on silence/inner parliaments and/of shadow- a liquidjewel pretty forever going any other way distancing itself from the combine/spire of deliverance on call/if there are mirrors they can be found in plainsong/what magic is/ god bless the renegades he said/episodic on oxygen court monologue/wayward son dispatches/smash addition soot/splintered enamel extravaganza/allow us to think masquerade weekend/ways of conquest radio nonplace/what I invaded has invaded me/white morning vixen/there is no other immortality
Overthrow the self/ an airborne disease, a beautiful thing that never happened-glistening in the rays of a distant supernova,mercurial staff take my breath away, moon merchant riding the wave, pirate blood/ nautical dawn wild blossom/ intercept canvas redux, church of trees scream in silence. There was superimposition & worry at a certain hour of the day/sanguine cold blood/hyena season genesis grasp secret psalm in search of duende/this eventuality’s carnival row exit in memory reclaiming time with unexpected grace notes/vagabond of the margins/mantic flame burning up the green guardian/assignations crestfallen between music & silence/carnivalesque xerox & infinity/dimension counterpoint face anything/introcut prestige music box/ noise & debris brouhaha/marigold showstopper horizon/victim of illusion blast scepter/excite/erupt/exclaim/stasis leak everlasting/cherub chance the undying matter anticipating nowhere/theremin cost victim of illusion priceless channel/follow me into the reprieve/best private fantasy times two/taste of holiday gross hesitation/to dance in the dark without fear/imperial violets distant shore/venerable plight/checkered koan/the other side of no tomorrow/a tiny island of confined electric charge/its bionic heart beats like the real thing/one nine five/less is more
CALENDAR OF MARBLE REINCARNATION METALLIC TASTE OF ASHES BURNING FEATHER THIS SECOND HE….THE UNMISTAKABLE EROTIC LANGUAGE MUST NOT DECEIVE US/REACTION OUT OF MY HEAD/AUTUMN CRY OPULENCE LIKE A TRIANGLE & A DUEL/NEW ARCADES BECAUSE OF BECAUSE WINDOWSPEAK PLUM NUDITY & NULLITY/STORYINSOIL EXPRESS OF SEMITONAL DOORS OPEN SOMEWHERE IN MY HEART/IT’S BETTER TO TRAVEL IN AUTOMATIC PLEASURE/BEHOLD THE MATERIALITY OF THE CLOUD/CHAOS CROP BASS NECTAR SCARECROW NAMELESS DAY/PEAK RING PROXIMITY WHO WILL REMAIN/MELANCHOLY OF TRIBE SAD CAFE IMMORTAL PALOMA STEAM DEEPFEEL LAVENDER KITE SENSEFALL CAMARADERIE/A THOUSAND & ONE CIPHERS JUNGLE ASTER/SIMPLE MIND RELIIC MASS EPONYMOUS NIGHT DISCRETIONS/SERVANT OF THE SECRET FLAME CATHEDRAL LABYRINTH EXOTIC PULSE/SOUL OF SERENE PRAXIS UNDERNEATH MANIC SEAS/CANAL BREATH SUPERSCENE/CONTENT MERE OASIS SINISTER MYTH FOREKNOW/EXPERIENTIAL MODE MODERNE HOUNDS OF LOVE/SOLASTALGIA REMAIN/OCEAN MACHINE SCREAM OF SWIFTS/BY REWARD ACCENT ROAM TECHNICS & TIME THE FORCE OF THE INTOXIC/CYCLE AFTER CYCLE/YEAR AFTER YEAR/WORD AFTER WORD/CREAM TERMINAL SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS RHAPSODY PINPOINT/TIME’S FLOW STEMMED/TALISMANIC IDENTIFICATIONS & GHOSTLY DEMARCATIONS/VERMILLION DEEPCHORD GLOW THERE IS NO END
Imminent Connoisseur of Heavens and Abysses
to Jean Luc Godard
These are the days when anything goes
christ like capitulation
daggerplay cherub sly suspicion onto
chronic twilight foxrock demands
new beginnings
beneath the gravity kill supreme soft cartel
a black menace
gestalt wicked rainbow benediction
these violent delights
in the nameless city of waiting eyes
a fossil of unreason
the sprawl of new immaterialities, interruptions
ruin, allegory, melancholy
annhialating the real
venus impossible fathom lines
of a mystery front
flux, disruption and emergence
the future is a wound
heavenpunk of shadow’s stillness
WANTON ENGAGEMENT OF THE GHOST OF YOU/FAITHLESS INSOMNIA DREAMFLESH/FLOWER OF FLESH & BLOOD/TRANSFIX THE MARBLE REINCARNATION/PIRATE BEYOND ABYSS CLOUD ARBORETUM/VESSEL OF LIGHT GROOVE ESPER SURFEIT
BOUNDARIES
to Jean Baudrillard
Hyena season genesis grasp secret psalm
in search of duende…
this eventuality’s carnival row exit in memory
reclaiming time with unexpected grace notes
vagabond of the margins, mantic flame
burning up the green guardian
assignations crestfallen
between music and silence
pledge of presence afterfall
operative x knocking on the sky-
vacillations of xerox and infinity,
images in vogue
amber soul sieve of moments preserved
cascades of desire and nostalgia
forming an umbrella of infallible truth
new rules incubating in the absolute room
in order to break free of the shadows
the rupture of word and thing
IMPOSSIBLE POISON, EROTIC BIRD
to Omar Caceres
Try not to understand
impossible poison, erotic bird
immersed in your forever thing
a synchromystic voyage of death & divinity
who speaks
engrossing, selfsame, directionless karmic traces
the permissable anapests anywhere
glass mountain obscurendure voxx
purloined destiny in unusual extracts
obsession of the day
suppose the inevitable, incarcerated chaste
to Scott Weiland
Arrest this lament
this false flag of endeavor
parachute of the midnight aplomb
splendor soils christened by an exorama
defouled by a parasite cancel
who are you in the liturgy of night?
nameless index
of heathen imperial purple
no margin, no reprieve
augur of ceremonial reimagining
of unnoticed thoughts
searing in erasure
murmur of accidental day
a chastised saucerful of secrets
eviscerator heaven on call
SONG OF FREEDOM OASIS
Usurp of the jonquil intervoid
happenstance arrival pending
a severing of the apparent encore
distant cries and
blossom bones enduring eternity
a face of genius in
full measure of the spectacular now
the explicit nevermind
of bulletproog passingness
always unfinished
song of freedom oasis
buying exits