Lucintite™
by Charles Potts
$8.00
Butcher Shop Press
Lucintite™
Charles Potts is a fixture within contemporary small press. He was the founder, publisher and editor of The Temple for many years. He has expounded his poetry at numerous readings throughout the Pacific Northwest, and has been widely published in poetry journals, mags, zines and thought provoking, stimulating outposts across this nation. Write to Charles for a complete listing of his many books published throughout the years by various outlets. The title, "Lucintite TM" was actually the wrap-up and final conclusive poem in this slim volume. "We must learn to write/loose and tite/ Upon which our reputations/will ultimately depend. "A tite grip on the theme and subject./ A loose goose on the language./ Lucintite"
Lucid and tight. Concise yet flexible. The element of electromotive force, a horizon, and locofocos. Perception meets pathfinder, scorpion pops sinew, passion is the current mistress of imagination. Charles Potts searches for wider horizons, chooses between limbo of hesitation, love and friendship, uses recovery via loss of innocence, then executes a dazzling hopscotch around a picaresque view of academia, political and private lives. Comprehension claims immortality.
"Pounce upon a time when war was the cure for this nonense. Now this nonsense is the war/and everybody's homeless." (Konichi wa is the Japanese way to say/ Good day or hello. What Co-Nietzsche Wa/ might mean is anybody's guess." "Where do you get your energy?/My reply is geoversal-- I get my energy from the sun." "Hello Adam (for Adam Perry) Addressing the first man like this brings on a god-like intensity/Coupled with the cosmic rush of need/ing to get it all spit out before the subject and the object/sluice out the door into the clogged streets of a different/desire. "You can only belong by giving up/The individuality that propelled you here in the first place./To arrive in other words is to disappear intact. "Always work on the most important thing you can, Otherwise you're wasting time/And time, as illusory as it is, is either where we are or all we've got." "We're the cattle in the fields of theology/ All desire and no pasture/More elaborate than the come/ We're driven to explore and splash."
"If your answer is to live in a hostile universe You are reduced to defending your self and your belongings shrinking to the status of victim hood."
Semantics? Rhetoric? Everything polished in time and place. A little too much emphasis placed on sexuality..."sperm sale, Dykes to Dick With Caution; Dicking the Rabbi's Daughter; Christian Orgasms; Dicking the Rabbi's Daughter (Take Two); Dicking the Rabbi's Daughter (short take); Dicking the Rabbi's Daughter (A sequel leading to a sequence (3)); Dicking the Rabbi's Daughter (Part 4: The Joe Leiberman Story)" all seem a redundant part of a pathetic fallacy (humanistic as it might be). If meant as passementerie trimming, it detracts, rather than adding to, the poetic content. Radio frequencies can emit low or high; the same might be said for Charles Potts' "Lucintite TM".