Bruce Andrews, PERIL

[PERIL is my translation of 'Peril,' which is a French reworking of JEOPARDY {(Awede, 1977), with a condensed version of the single-word-line original printed in WOBBLING (Roof, 1981), & the original available on this Author Page -- done by translating the words & rearranging them to parallel the first letter patterning of the original.
(It was published online as P O T E P O E T T E X T T H I R T Y O N E by Potes & Poets Press, Peter Ganick editor, originally archived at http://www.burningpress.org/va/vaintro.html)]



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"Words
were
what
were
whole
what
wasted
words
want
waiting
whose
travel
there"
---
noise,
head,
necessary
birth
don't
level
pit
can't
not
order
one
speaking
direction
other's
known
coice
how
chest
combustile
elements
existed
needed
rest
tips
expected
have
clasped
hypotheses
could
come
suitably
having
enough
here
under
having
openly
almost
persuasion's
physical
promises
names
name
doesn't
shadow
one
things
darkness
order
hampered
throat
over
he
lift
bed
lights
matter
home
masturbation
threats
makes
me
hand
matter
means
often
threshold
sticks
similar
eight
unchanging
appreciate
address
beside
answer
anxiously
attention =
depths
advance
ashes =
sky
cried
call
hooks
conditions
hand
words
me
moment
long
instead
light
planes
pit
pronouns
place
passion's
rose
remark =
dream —
remembered
agreed
added
advantage
respects
begins
certain
certain
chief
confidence
connects
hardly
helps
outside
softening
whole
once
man
sets
blows
especially
alone
bleed
keep
feeling
thinking
solicitude
breath
four
when
some
during
doubt
empties
other's —
gently —
details
talking
direction
steps
door's
desiring
diverging
done
meaning
beginning
tight
graves
turns
noise
work
terms
trembling
roof
all
head
troubles,
everything
picture
always
air
enough
about
ambition
anguish
without
agreed
further
somewhere
which
something
someone
counting
choice
clitoris
clouds =
face
father
firmly
face
might
fashion —
thumbs
different
since
describe
distinctly
emptied
else
flat
flying
bending
mouth
fluent
found
fixed
back
friendly
space
eastern
events
offers
obscurity
notoriously
neither
brief
dark
many
here
implores
must
doesn't
he
messenger
avoided
strangers
everywhere
bowels
even
thickness
expression
fatherless
had
being
space
being
barn
information
have
here
intended
house
mute
middle
minutes'
lies
hammer
morning
precautions
place
phrases
problem
painting
looked
inches
shut
solid
sides —
casual
bent
blue
you
better
noise
you
fit
filling
talker
seeing
will
living
clothes
bicycle
would
branches
many
most
driving
first
expanse
halls
launched
big
memory
least
hand
me
manner
memory
nothing
didn't
opposite
one
as
attention
addicts
anterior
other =
english
assistance
denying
demands
of
say
devoured
delicate
dialogue
dealing
charming
definite
doubt
dilating
consciousness
even
expanded
smoke
shut
end
pass
pens
places
possible
plan
prevents
poetry
peculiar
small
nothing
order
obscure
sea =
presentation
places
perpetual
following
over
evening
alone
without
breath
sounds
something
somewhere
some
someone
skin
someone
follow
itself
overwhelms
still
known
nothing
reasons
first
pronoun
resisting
regret
what
reconciles
father
does
ground
frequently
skin
is
events'
filled
might
form
shut
putting
affection
flies
would
air
with
quick
groping —
acceptable
arranged
beasts
edge
attacks
associate
abandoned
words
damage
deeper
craze
disposition
devises
heard
accuracy
trampled
suppose
some
something
voices
what
voice
varied
questions
under
feel
waiting
reflection,
resolutions
awakening
rose —
restored —
murmuring
mental
less
hungry
associate
with
anxiously
abandoned
stars
suitably
speaking
more
draws
knowing
I
interval
passion
peevish
coming
never
what
never
comes
eyes
forward
child
bursting
always
teeters
if
sense
rooms
set
speculation
words
vanished
words
stop
know
smack
drawing
divisions
sky
cause
content
bodies
case
creatures
continuous
digression
duration
crossed
count
crumpled
can't
crown
ashes
doomed
calm
conscience
compelled
known
sky
falling
form
flight
again
boldly
end
cold
faithful
announced
many
associate
bent
door
verb
hairless
spot
sleep
selected
without
source
round
nouns
published
light
place
particular
sea
habitat
finds
nothing
laughter
less
I
jeopardy
I
deceitful
you'll
I
bothering
irregular
space
photograph
close
search
probability
respects
dream
behind
field
spared
many
describe
bursting
consequence
small
however
creatures
eloquent
exempt
while
is
associate
you
desired
surprises
spectacle
roof
hits
ending
voice
old
close
received
hits
rebukes
simulate
waste
meant
one
perhaps
it
shades
pretend
indefinitely
slides
beginning
accounts
suffering
finding
drops
chief
I
instructions
direct
confusing
desired
circumstance
suited
sight
swim
clouds
deserted
confidence
difference
becomes
uvular
called
curious
corresponding
anything
I
inside
light
leaves
mechanical
deprived
depraved
charging
find
matters
far
making
murmurs
pleasant
length
redistributed
fingers
story
capable
famous
everlasting
it's
see
strange
it's
bothering
invention
found
logical
forced
fatal
listen
face
floweers father
child
among
late
explanation
= local
should
must
behind
family
furnished
evolve
required
should
reminding
false
fling
see
before
ready
formation
ends
lucky
forward
stories
local
maim
moving
flush
exist
walled
miles
fire
darkness
official
end
remedy
fast
air
face
keep
latest
ratified
reference
recursive
light.