Signs of Electricity
1) Capacitor (stores charge)
On the way to the store a delivery truck collided into a wall, behind which a group of men were throwing javelins, many of which had thocked into the truck-rammed wall with the violence spilling out of the throwers' hearts.
2) Variable Capacitor
(stores varying amounts of charge)
On the way to the arcade a truck carrying a fake mummy skidded on some spilled iguana skins and veered sharply just shy of a wall behind which a woman was wringing a great blue cloth with a creaking winch and much of the dye is splattering onto the concrete floor along with the water, though the woman is considering letting go of the winch handle and watching everything unspool.
3) Diode (permits current to flow in one direction only; can also be used to convert a.c. signals to d.c. signals (a "rectifier"))
We are all of us gathered here today to witness the joining of two lovers one of which is a bit larger and more lusty than the other, when a boy on a moped screeches into the gathering like a blasted organ pipe, upsetting the bride and crashing through the huge Achilles shield the man has withdrawn. The bride turns on the groom she was about to join in holy matrimony, realizing the whole thing was wrong in the first place and could have been avoided. The smoke and dust which had risen in a mushroom cloud calmly descends again like a peaceful yet debilitating ash.
4) Light Emitting Diode (emits light when current flows through it)
After lassoing the hawk, hauling it down, twisting fireweed about its ankles and setting it free, after the bonfire had dwindled down and the last of the sirloin had been eaten, the barbecue sauce rubbed into their jeans, Tina and Sam spread a bearskin over the outcrop which overlooked Diamond Lake, the moonlight streaming and the stars straining, everything seemingly happy with everything else, Buddhistic almost, with the diatoms on the pond buzzing out luminescence like the selfsame elements comprising the lake's name, and fucked each other silly.
5) Thermistor (converts temperature variations into current/voltage)
In my little chopped hat, my mask and club, nothing escapes me. A ray slices through and is thoroughly cut up and absorbed like a wolf in a mud patty or like a man obsessed with tiny books and pocket encyclopedias running into an oversized library. An alligator has closed its jaws over a cluster of fat chickens. Thunder, tyrannosaurs, trephination; no, it's about entering a sphere and being spun about, shot up, shot down, flushed down a drain to emerge in one piece so wet, so new.
6) Aerial (converts radio waves into a.c. signals and vice versa)
The cannibal's charm. Go ahead, it says. You're young, excite me. Three tall fires were puncturing the darkness. They shot out from the tip of an icicle. A trifecta-ed lion. An old man slides down a mountain, his legs splayed to the side. An old man wielding the leg of an extinct bird, shouting "Quack Quack!"
7) Microphone (converts sound waves into a.c. voltage)
Two spikes were rammed into the ovoid door of a cave. Behind that door was another door, a flat one. Behind that who knew.
8) Loudspeaker (converts a.c. signals into sound waves)
Flat box shapes rule the land of lost totems.
9) n-p-n transistor (amplifies electric current and turns it on or off)
A boy has entered a region of meditation, landscaped with elegant grasses, sleek, lunar stones, and thrashes around in it. A state of confusion, very lost and unusually shaped.
10) p-n-p transistor (amplified electric current, and turns it off or on)
A small furnace has broken and a young fire has broken out in a health care facility. Oxygen rushes in like a funneled spear. The era for sailing ships is no longer a ballad but a swift march to the sea. A man in a green robe looks like a prism of filtered fright. He dumps water on the fire, a single pail, and shoots into his fate. It is an electrical fire and no one in sight can stop it. Until much later along in the unhurried day.
"Signs of Electricity" appears in Sentence: a Journal of Prose Poetics with images of electrical symbols.
Used by permission of the author.
On the way to the store a delivery truck collided into a wall, behind which a group of men were throwing javelins, many of which had thocked into the truck-rammed wall with the violence spilling out of the throwers' hearts.
2) Variable Capacitor
(stores varying amounts of charge)
On the way to the arcade a truck carrying a fake mummy skidded on some spilled iguana skins and veered sharply just shy of a wall behind which a woman was wringing a great blue cloth with a creaking winch and much of the dye is splattering onto the concrete floor along with the water, though the woman is considering letting go of the winch handle and watching everything unspool.
3) Diode (permits current to flow in one direction only; can also be used to convert a.c. signals to d.c. signals (a "rectifier"))
We are all of us gathered here today to witness the joining of two lovers one of which is a bit larger and more lusty than the other, when a boy on a moped screeches into the gathering like a blasted organ pipe, upsetting the bride and crashing through the huge Achilles shield the man has withdrawn. The bride turns on the groom she was about to join in holy matrimony, realizing the whole thing was wrong in the first place and could have been avoided. The smoke and dust which had risen in a mushroom cloud calmly descends again like a peaceful yet debilitating ash.
4) Light Emitting Diode (emits light when current flows through it)
After lassoing the hawk, hauling it down, twisting fireweed about its ankles and setting it free, after the bonfire had dwindled down and the last of the sirloin had been eaten, the barbecue sauce rubbed into their jeans, Tina and Sam spread a bearskin over the outcrop which overlooked Diamond Lake, the moonlight streaming and the stars straining, everything seemingly happy with everything else, Buddhistic almost, with the diatoms on the pond buzzing out luminescence like the selfsame elements comprising the lake's name, and fucked each other silly.
5) Thermistor (converts temperature variations into current/voltage)
In my little chopped hat, my mask and club, nothing escapes me. A ray slices through and is thoroughly cut up and absorbed like a wolf in a mud patty or like a man obsessed with tiny books and pocket encyclopedias running into an oversized library. An alligator has closed its jaws over a cluster of fat chickens. Thunder, tyrannosaurs, trephination; no, it's about entering a sphere and being spun about, shot up, shot down, flushed down a drain to emerge in one piece so wet, so new.
6) Aerial (converts radio waves into a.c. signals and vice versa)
The cannibal's charm. Go ahead, it says. You're young, excite me. Three tall fires were puncturing the darkness. They shot out from the tip of an icicle. A trifecta-ed lion. An old man slides down a mountain, his legs splayed to the side. An old man wielding the leg of an extinct bird, shouting "Quack Quack!"
7) Microphone (converts sound waves into a.c. voltage)
Two spikes were rammed into the ovoid door of a cave. Behind that door was another door, a flat one. Behind that who knew.
8) Loudspeaker (converts a.c. signals into sound waves)
Flat box shapes rule the land of lost totems.
9) n-p-n transistor (amplifies electric current and turns it on or off)
A boy has entered a region of meditation, landscaped with elegant grasses, sleek, lunar stones, and thrashes around in it. A state of confusion, very lost and unusually shaped.
10) p-n-p transistor (amplified electric current, and turns it off or on)
A small furnace has broken and a young fire has broken out in a health care facility. Oxygen rushes in like a funneled spear. The era for sailing ships is no longer a ballad but a swift march to the sea. A man in a green robe looks like a prism of filtered fright. He dumps water on the fire, a single pail, and shoots into his fate. It is an electrical fire and no one in sight can stop it. Until much later along in the unhurried day.
"Signs of Electricity" appears in Sentence: a Journal of Prose Poetics with images of electrical symbols.
Used by permission of the author.
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