Selected poems
The sky
Floating on a pasture of sound
lifted sine curves entwine,
touching with the mind before contact,
still awaiting proof that the
unbelievable happened
all spun into a interwoven sculpture of
the fantastical.
The dipolar opposites unite end to end
before entwining.
The energy spreads out long tendrils,
stepping across a doorstep of time.
Researching the future.
The sound reflection of a shape, burning
and sizzling with a chemical reaction
As the resonance changes the birds come
uncomfortably close
Within an chamber with tributaries of
chambers
crags of rock leak, creating dendrites
between crystal faces, compressed to 60,000 atmospheres.
Intervals of atmospheric density alter
the velocity of a traveling sound wave,
creating a new sound as the musician travels through matter.
unfurling across the eyelash just before
then.
in a transcendent euphoric daydream about
our waterfall.
Of stars
The infinite space around
The silence that floats through your finger cannot be divided
to eternity.
Bottled whispers opened by the sparks in the night, the phone
that revealed a hundred years of solitude.
A reflective memory breaks in half at the duality, before
flying up through the past.
Towards the light of tomorrow.
As the earth shakes, the volcanoes breathe too quickly and
melt into the sea.
A distant flower, brushed up against the passing legs of a
traveler,
Left behind
The inside of the mind was a sanctuary for the brook and the
bee,
The continual strengthening of the consciousness,
Uncovering the goals of the unforeseeable pendulums.
The magnets combine creating resonance with an abacus carved
from physical laws.
The octaves of color twist into a helix within a helix, spun
together in opposite rotations.
Magnetic resonance fluctuating in and out of position as the
spirals meet and release.
Periodic motions interlock with numerological
determinism
so thoughts and motions will increase their rate
exponentially.
Each step a calculated Motion,
distanced are doubled,
halved
Night
it scratches the carbon teeth of a bulldozer.
The mechanical pressure breaks a ton of bricks like butter
The equation for love has endless facets.
The midnight hours mediate between now and then, the breaking
point, a space beyond the
backside, around to the underneath of an inside out bottomless
edgeless terrain.
Jon Axelrod 2008-2009

Scratches
of photosynthetic fingers
Screen through the trees.
The night air evaporates the memories of daylight
With the path of a star.
Ancient turbulence resting way down below the crust.
Kimberlitic Tubes crushed by eons of gravity.
Partially melted
Stretched out wide.
The core
The outside of a dream where we cannot remember.
The edges of thoughts,
The thoughts that are of the memory of a thought.
When an idea is remembered because of the time
when it was created.
The most beautiful gift must disappear.
A pinch of
light crumbles before an expectation.
It wobbles around a central core.
Philosophers
decompose their theories
into a crucible of uncertainty leading to progress.
Wasting away the eons in a crystal cave that swept up the
edges of humanity.
The dark corner of a babies crib falls apart.
The
particles rearrange their order with out touch,
12 materials, each with a different resonance.
Each is carved by the wind and rain into a shape
unique to this resonance.
Their vibrations are pendulums above Galileo’s mind.
The earth broke down, tears leaked out across the Solar
system.
A million degrees imagined by the ones with eyes closed.
A million
eyes touched the cliffs but nothing came of it.
Just some anxieties scratched into bluffs with sharp stones.
Just a mathematical map of the things at hand.
drawn with tears and sweat of dirty domesticated animals,
shackled against the cold exterior,
awaiting the future of crushing grain into fluff.
The powder
of a dirty cloud one astronomical unit wide
might one day light up the sky for them.
They perfected their flight plans to accommodate for the
shadows of other birds.
With broken open light cups for eyes that are blinded with
rapture.
As all the birds watched.

A thousand
dreams in a glimpse.
A charm that is edified by time, an infinite jewel like the
atmosphere.
A woman
She fell
from the night, Dark
But lit from beneath by glowing embers of reflective ice.
A lip that sends out language.
A dark
lingering chill outpoured the gem that is unthinkable.
The most beautiful thing cannot be comprehended, it causes
instant unconsciousness.
The idea that is darkened from sight by an intense brightness.
Please dream
of this,
One thousand billion lights bunched up into your arms.
The heat melts the stars and the universe stands still.
The Galaxy churns and clutches her delicate atoms in
collections of protected envelopes.
Matter and
the wind are one.
Liquid air
Chilled, distilled.
Into the evaporated moon sculpture.
A dream pathway into another dimension of sensitivity.
The arms of the world embrace.
Draw the moon through glass etched by a mathematical series.
A working space dedicated to the unknown; there was no plan,
just an objective.
It was dark; there was no moon, just many dark stars.
A rush of tears, bent over the mountainside, climbing higher
with each octave.
The patterns interlock with a new dream approaching.
A flood, an iceberg in the
The psychophysical manifestation of a bad dream measured in
calories.
A new idea
edified by looking long enough.
To walk across her path,
Stopping the work to transform into oil boiled for hours.
Walking backwards breaking the coastline.
The ground was shaking when the heart was lifted, the arms
weakened.
The world forced open the mind of a walk way.
A pathway that works inside a whirlpool
Outside a black hole
Inside a galaxy.
Jon Axelrod
Jan 2009

I dreamt on a moon of Jupiter where I saw the electrodes
crackle on the tops of the cliffs, the gravity dropped us into
new dimension of time and space. Missing places bent by light
residue. Brown light filtered through tears of rain on the
equator of earth, the rim, where the bulging mass of aqueous
particulates surge with the centrifugal. The tops of the
mountains dull with the south eastern winds. From the swamps
to the valleys the tendrils swelled at the base before
entangling the nymphs and larvae. Bunched up on a warm rock,
fallen from the tree limb over the oceanic sandstone bluffs,
the tides stained her ankles and left behind something very
unfamiliar.
The
Unfamiliar was remembered again. Still curious on the outside
of speculation, in the middle of doubt. On the evening of 2009
the salts will crystallize into a pattern of orange and blue
frosted crystal faces. Each one pointed towards the same
direction. 92.3 Degrees south East. On the rim of the moon
keeper, who blinks as the oceans crystallize within the shadow
of an eclipse, the particles condense into a planet of
moderate size, one Au from a small sun that was golden. The
secrets are still out there. On the backside of a comet that
just rained past a colony of corals below a white sand beach.
The broken tree limb attained four barnacles every 3 moons.
3,000
crickets signaled the beginning of November. The last ant
queen was the center of their universe. The sky was beyond one
inch from the basin. The slope sent flower pollen into the
mouths of chinchillas. The sky suddenly darkens when the
cougar casts a shadow that curves across the trunk of 300
pines 400 feet away. On the slope of shale that is the
remnants of an undersea land slide. The Burgess monstrosities
of nature, unsuccessful asymmetrical invertebrate organisms,
they click their legs to signal the coming of the equinox, a
shadow watcher, who draws the cosmos with a projected shadow
sent through mammoth slits in granite stone walls. The fringe
was a fuzzy uncertainty; its color also was irregular, beyond
the spectrum, the equipment broke down. A kilobyte of memory
was lost. Missing equations convex the stratus clouds by
tossing blind travelers into ultra sonic bliss, agitating
molecules combine into protein, the falling drips send rhythms
through tubes of matter.
Less mobile
objects feel the warmth of a thousand years in the desert,
concentrated 300 times focused onto a sample within a glass
chamber. The findings indicate uncertainty in the possibility
to find absolute knowledge.

Eyes partially closed, suddenly open.
peripheral vision extending beyond the past.
The sadness of awakening
from the best dream
The ideas aren't gone
They crunch up just behind the moment.
Bursting within a blink, behind a blink
After a blink it was all there.
Remembering the potential noise.
Listening to the sounds of water
breaking its molecular bonds.
Amplified by a hollow.
Lining up fractions
splitting time
Opening Dynamics.
Uncontrollable surges of life force,
Spasms of thought explode
unleashing the unknown pathways.
Noise that suggests inertial torque.
Mass of unbelievable scale and precision,
arranged all in order to topple down
in a perfectly organized sequence.
To begin again, in half a second
Rebuilt to be
Redeconstructed
Fit together
With a hundred clicks snaps and rumblings,
Coming to life in a symphony of joineries.
Smooth cartilaginous interconnections
Dampen the acoustics mechanics of life.
It cries, thrashes about in the swamp, breaks branches.
It listens to its own reality and reacts to a reaction.
As it grows it gains intelligence,
sets the rules and extends order into the silence.
Matching the end with the inverse of the beginning,
The song is alive within the observer, now in multiple
Reference
planes.
It took too much force to move with that speed,
to close to the blue violet tip of a light wave.
The sound was impossible but there it was.
To create that musical pattern one would have to move
too close to the speed of light.
Necessitating more energy than earth receives.
We had to wait for it to reach us, but it was there,
we had to translate it
through a dolphin brain
to understand it.
To feel the forces of the invisible periodic.
To listen to the changing sound of more or less silence between sets of single wavelengths.
It interferes with itself in the future and splits into an exponential spectral wave,
with millions of perfectly arranged dynamics.
All the notes had the same sound,
the same carrier wave.
But it was distorted, brought closer.
Into
a
muse that is a ratio of the same emptiness.
The greatest movers are guardians of stillness
with borderlines carved into perturbed matrix.
Theoretically, the stable elements are harmonic oscillators.
There is a half life because it is slowing down.
It speeds up or takes quantum leaps, it gains shells that are patterns of motion.
It doesn't exist, it is mass created solely through wave movement.
The
end is stillness, the motions dampened a dark star.
July 2008
that
will
never be washed away. But the day became lost, reflected by a
moon,
projected down into tomorrow. Only to begin again.
She opened the box, it has no limits, it opens with he morning
and awakens urgency.
Only to fold up again and start back over, sewing together
thousands of opposite bits.
The sky waits.
The pandas have to wait until the mountains lift, multiplying terra firma into a new dimension.
Igniting
the
flux of life itself, exploring what the light touches first
because every thing is a reflection,
un moved in motion.
It was impossible not to meet, nestled through our time.
She was reflective also, born out of paint and unaware of it.
she saw the shade draw rain shadows that get smaller as they get closer.
When they touch the shadow will be gone.
The course through the clouds made them vanish.

Through cloud light the whispers reach us,
Within the whirlpool of laughter my eyes liquidate her
When the florescent life snaps into my recollection the
Winds chill the Cliff side, and the trees mangle themselves against one another
As
the beach sinks down and up with every phase, the scattered
static of a dilapidated
world effervesces the existence of a future on earth.
The chalk cliffs are ancient Caribbean sediments
microorganisms that were
buoyant as outer space satellites.
We
lift, with all of humanity a select and precisely organized
arrangement of minerals in order
to build platforms far above the air. Creatures
willing to risk death in order to help humanity
separate itself from the earth. The
collective task of ultimate freedom,
In the face of the slow and gradual pull of gravity.
We will live long within the spaces between stars.
As protection from the unforgettable pain of
nothingness, the saturating void of eternity.
The relentless force of gravity wants to pull the dimensions
back together again.
The
wild fires burst oxygen canisters and implode the artificial
canister of earth. Inaudible
vibration and perpetual motions degrade the living capsule above
nocturnal hourglass watchers.
The humanoid earth beings have evolved,
Now
they are unrecognizable on the forest floor, tendrils for hair,
spots on a skin rough with
leaf litter. The strength of
harmony from all sides, heightening the levitations of babies
with
twinkle eyes and purple teeth.
A chance for blindness with eyes open. Who
could leave the soil behind.
Rabbit face
cloudy because Scattering Electrodes.
unknown
out
come of drawing the unknown became rift between now and soon.
light refracts
from eye glasses painting spheres of optical analog
malfunctioning through the wind cutting
branches from sucking aphids, enormous herds of protected bug
juice farms.
Eyelid harmony
Split stream through Montana thunder back coldness.
Avalanche of clouds billow above equatorial peninsula.
Harvest of Green sapphire beads of liquid crystal, forged by mechanical goblins thrust into wind chimes
Dredged
through
pastures of jubilant fertility, worrisome flowers destroy
crystal invisible people dressed in
nighttime,
flown into whirl winds of metallic organs.
Glass eyed nurse, stretched by ladder
into Everest blood.
Flown into a pocket of light by vegetable organisms
that thrust my cerebral optics into a divine impersonator of
celestial mechanisms.
Contrasting forms implode under the pressure of an infallible void. Marks from a invisible machine
Speeds
of
expansion create forms, modeled by the friction.
From the velocity of matter.
October
21
2007

The landscape is perturbed
Firebugs
are
now underwater,
bacterial nymphs, larvae poured
through crystal screens of crushed
flint shards garbled half submerged in
near freezing temperatures
Recorded in long sequences of amplified volume.
Unearthly
In
its barren disregard for social significances,
the informal act of mythological story telling
melts into the mechanically assisted recycling engine.
Spectrum analysis equipment
Destroyed by overloaded dynamics
Beyond our range
Satellite
dish
face
talons crunching the fibers of a wooden scaffold.
Soft dust
Sawdust insecticide
On fire
For no reason
December
2007
The
sky is night
The fire tears liquid from the eye.
Glowing about the pond edge
Born after the golden void
with voids within the limits of a void.
It spirals into an empty belly chamber
nestled in
A fictional poem about freedom
The pretty birds forgot how to sing,
The other birds are shy of being seen
Nature divides the two.
Mesopotamian animal style artists
Don’t know the meaning of ecology
It’s the notion of an empty niche.
Found between the spiral arms
of a rams horn.
Filled with dung beetle eggs, crushed
beneath the heel of
an Antelope
stretched out between the teeth of an
cave bear.
Mashed between the toes of an ape
Doused in rainwater evaporated from
equatorial glaciers.
Bright green nighttime fog cascades
along nightmares doused in fear. A
Whirl pool
dislodges itself, and travels in the air above the core
of Jupiter. It releases powerful
electromagnetic energies along the path
that build up strength for hundreds of years.
inciting riots among the creatures
millions of miles away.
Space as we know it could be
meaningless.
The movements from here to there are a fundamental
condition of all matter.
Not everything is composed of matter.

The fires inside are a long scorching chasm
between.
The moonlight is sunlight,
on An evening such as this morning
The sky rose and bent in the center.
20 extraterrestrial encounters in one evening.
Through the barriers of society the ideas explode
through gates separating an endless number of contexts,
a world of millions of gateways through portals of every
ecological niche,
searching for the missing niche between
that allows for consciousness to have
A form that dissolves under the hands when you most desire it.
A memory lost but some how inflated due to
the mystery if its design.
The most tangibly real thing has become the most unknown.
Falling sideways more and more until the wind flips us over onto
our backs to watch the sky burn around our entrance.
It was the equivalent of six thousand rhino dreams.
Which required 1500 lbs of rhino brains cast into a bronze mold
for remembrance.
The descendants rubbed it for good luck until there was nothing
left.
Who mutated against a boiling sea of obsidian glass
spilled over the swampy jungle lowlands.
A purple flower mashed into the teeth of a koala,
Instead,
morning light
becomes layered with yesterdays air
Overlapping stars with tears
Rain from a cave,
From the darkest blue green
Tulips that drank
Number logic.
Sent out into the imagination
As a hundred numbers
Each with a bar above,
Into an infinite division between
Hypothetical information.
The split, the edit, a slice,
A division of space time
That becomes a metronome melted
Into the background

Opalescent metalloid mountain pond
below storms of crackling thunder that reach directly Towards
the
Magnetic shield spun into audible mechanical hum of the earth
sped up 8640 times.
Elemental substances resonate harmonically pure tones so as to
orchestrate music with the essences of matter and reality
itself.
Composed by the flux of cosmic radiation that creates
modulations of energy,
Potential music composed by the different kinds of cosmic
energy. X-ray, protons,
electrons, and magnetism, colliding in the atmosphere creating
unique orchestras of instruments wider than the solar system. Collected by Satellites, linked to
live web data feeds.
Time opens
substances in a unique way revealing the internal structure,
telling stories with missing places.
The auroras of chord relationships
linked into a string coiled around a point in time.
A quartzite mountain lost in the
mountains.
A vessel that clings to the edge of eternity,
continually perceiving the world for the first time every time
with every blink.

Highly plastic
perspectives of poetry, funnel of energy wound up till gravity
unfurls twisting mineral beds stretched and pulled by the sea
floor.
Magnetism designates polarities.
Purple bits float near a moss covered wasteland;
giant yellow
spores clog leaf cutter ant walkways.
Strawberry
rubber melted and solidified into islands of ink, oil blobs
and gigantic glaciers obliterated by everything.
Cascades of
buzzing
between bamboo shoots.
Rabid animals
engaged in mortal escape gatherings.
Preparing for circular dialog with each other by moon beam
photo.
Slices of
flesh flake and fall off the reindeer carcass as boiled,
Fungus is squashed into neutrino lavender gifts for the
travelers.
Silence
emanates before and after everything.
Silence reeks
Stone faces divide red flesh and sour tropical venom that
floats above the air creating the mirage of movement, mirage
of life force.
In between the stones the young bugs shed their skin, and
swell up in the moist damp soil. The
wind carves artifacts and fluid shapes out of rocks, eons pass
and the significance of the alive is lost.
Time is a living phantom of shifting invisible and
inaudible emptiness.
Oxygen curls
up around everything and oxidizes the surface, time pulls the
world apart. Objects drift and
erode into the ground; the soil.
is the wide
tongue of the earth. Absorbing
everything under the weight and piles of the future, creating
heat and pressure to be melted or even folded.
Everything is falling into the soil right now. Life is that which can resist this
force or perhaps move with its help. Life
can climb above. The dust that
blankets everything leaves behind a history of stratified
layers. Drifting fragments of a
once whole compound are spread out across our great curved
abyssal plane. Geography is what
was left behind after the noise of erosion. Rivers of the
fallen tips, chips and bits, wish to return to their whole,
They must wait
until the universe contracts, reversing all actions back
towards the point of origin.
Fossilized
Dinosaur tongue entangled in poisonous vines.
Fallen life
matter finally touches the ground
embedding bacteria into the flesh, between the shifting
plates.
Organized movements send shock waves that initiate breaks
in the lithosphere, sending cascades of trees, flying down
the mountain on fire.
July
10
2006

Rough split
steel moves in the wind,
The sky becomes torn
I can now see
A time when the world wasn't finished yet,
When prehistoric creatures were the carpenters of the clouds.
Walking backwards, grabbing thoughts through the eyes.
Now experiencing a completely new emotion.
A new secret
My eyes are open
Tears rush in
Causing me to sit very still.
Before the
carnival came, my eyes were quiet. Now
my legs spin until they grow larger. Reaching
the
limit. My house complains of my
big toes and shaking knees.
So we decided to individually follow lights.
We reached the same destination,
Yet we each experience different sensations.
My home complained of loud sounds,
And urged me to close eyes and hide the expensive furniture. But it was too late,
The first one to enter was laughing and
kissing the ceiling.
Soon they were tattooing the windows
And making nests out of small plants in the corner.
In return I would listen to years of silence.
Unfortunately, most of the bolts didn't talk, except
for one, which seemed to be preparing to speak.
I want
to breath;
To watch awakened children
gather their thoughts and climb up towards
A
Fallen
Thought...
Upon hearing
this, I decided to take it with me. I
don't know why, it was smaller than my fist but,
Heavier than my eyes
It tasted like underwater plants? Yet, the words reminded me
of my own image reflected by a large bubble.
The sun was beginning to open
Intensifying her projection.
I could hear the faint breath of my home.
I had forgotten
I closed the windows.
April 28 2004

The sun and clouds do battle.
Blood pours across the sky
Providing an orange glow that did not exist previously.
Now fading, the sun burns up.
For a moment I can see lights of unimaginable wavelengths.
A crisp white split by the red blur of a sparrow.
Fading upwards
The tops of the clouds radiate like the prism, which is a woman.
Below this long purple cloud
The furnace of the sky radiates anger.
Never before have I seen sunbeams so low to the earth.
If I could only touch white velvet sun rays
And pour purple dreams into your ears.
My anticipation leaks out into the monotone blueness of the sky.
A dark cloud protects my desire.
Exploding into innumerable lines and dots, which float.
I watch the water, which is a mirror
Bend and roll over
Distorting a sunset, which has begun to loose its fire.
Cold blues and purple mix with every object.
Creating a color and environment unique to this moment.
5-31-04

Creatures
Raptor claws that bristle and spin
radiance through a camouflaged bone yard organized into crystal
rings of overlap. Metamorphosis with
detailed ridges and furrows of worry. Strength and
determinacy of observation when a turquoise beetle with gigantic
eye spots on the pedestal falls. Wing examinations reflected by
water in the air and furry insects that protect us, useless
against the miracle of flight. Venom that
floats and vibrates the helmet of a war beetle. Hairs
that separate openings and extensions. Fleshy
exoskeleton that is still fresh, while curiosities watch legs
separate and flatten. Transparent text
spikes and curls into its nest. Beauty and growth coils of flesh
keep warm within biome potentials. Pollen grains compress
gravity in the dark and termites create intricate fractals of
traffic and chamber iridescence. Opened body display and albino
rarities burst reflections off of black night sticks that spin
and radiate danger specks flecks of cold are young and closed in
the sun. Owl scales elongate and hide
color, into coils of vine illusion, crab filaments unfurl and
collect yellow and black. Red wing stems and baby parasites turn
red and black or flatten venom packets and implements of
suction. Eye full emerald egg shell
particles that curve gently. The impatience for the leap into
the void of awareness, total sensitivity to each body part as
a tool for movement. Floating moon
mirrors ascend.
April 13 2006

Turquoise fern pasture, buried
beneath quivering leaves and moaning clouds that pour shadows
into the eyes of bewitched children playing on the ridges of
Everest. Watching the world slip thought the spiral
arms of the universe bursting with, gravitational delicacy, as
the fires inside the celestial send shock waves move across the
sun of blue green flames.
Fantastical
lizards
equip their egg helmet parachute gargoyle for underground
surveillance. reindeer hemisphere attached to outer
space alien observatory, extreme lights boiling
synapse,until daylight leaves a planetesimal's dark side
blue with cosmic life indicators. Baby brontosaurus's
eyelid heavy with crystal flowers freeze dried and dust in the
wind. pounced until woozy plus upside down
sometimes. optically bizarre Nightingale pronounced
unlimited. Wind less helicopter spreading ocean currents with
down drafts
August 17 2007

Grumpy thunder sequence
Earth quake foam
And startled parrots
that occasionally
fly into caves
Is an unraveling fountain substance
and relaxes the non-living
Dance apparatus.
?Feed glowing triangles
to the skeletons of macaw birds?
No---
Reassembled Macaw
structure to
describe
aerial misfortune.
Space explorations intended
To discover the invisible
Within
With volcanic spices
Cleave, Sing
footprints. - weak crunch
humming bird feast
2005

Rubber band honey, dipped in marmalade whiskers of goose bumps
sending waves across the ocean of a belly burnt, warm, pink, and
brown eyes dreaming through the sand on a beach that equals the
number of stars in the skin. sky covered pineapples,
squished between toes for luck near the beach cliff.
harmonious memories tingle between telepathic angles of 360
degrees around the sun with electromagnetic sails that protect
us.
Red oak bouncing on
iron deaf barrier several times, when copper tubes rattle back
and forth breaking time into a exponential sequence until
silence. The ocean hisses static across the screen of
terra firma, an evolutionary big bang interference signal
speckled with melodious mutations. Arrow wings float
harmony between spheres interlaced between thread on a bird head
rest. a perpetual awareness device, the interactor of
cosmic scale to uncover.
August 2007