from, ‘soma synthesis’ – poetry & spoken word by Sean G. Meggeson w/art by Robert Frede Kenter

A visual poem violet field with white swirls and asemic writing left and right by Robert Frede Kenter (2025)

Gould-hum   Sig toon ditty

map skip   oceanic affect    clip clip
old-timey coffee thumb   Viennese volume bean
point zero open   maritime mouth   med cascade
sickbed found    wave sign bound

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sweet kitty Pier Paulo   whiskers    runes   33 wars
Edipo Re inter-ritual   whispers   35 mm clank clank
trauma color cut   ancient woos    tinderbox boos
mama pasta   fat ball   football into sleep
soup pup    Diadora lip gin tears    body emptied
hermeneutical bully flops    body plentied
stool find   arc reject    blue kiss
Petros    Pino   Pietro    hello    gin men
erase boo kid    subject desire mark    Camero & Maserati
unfold southerly canvas Caravaggio & Giotto    Alfa Romeo
Gould away plucks    bird bottom

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San Lorenzo stain   sit    read    runes
interpretation distance lapse   jank bird
ear ritual    listen    dark-eyed junco squawk
Mamma Roma monitor lick    Lotta Continua
CIA lynch pit    back bent    mouth lipped
leather sole de con    oil stiletto
handsome man turtleneck    mist muscles
rose not rose    ear dome    ants
sadism champion flag bod    doze
Gould toes Bach    rubber band slow    forehands    steam
waystation    desire arbor zip-zap
tin cups  gin balance   Jon    June    jetsam
’70s Citroën SM    smoothie-cum-hydro pop
falsehood floor   barbershop    back page porno prom
more than more    home    pit punch    chlorine dong
Toronto toasts Cronnellini crushed ice    gin    little Bella   Bice
Italian Camusean drama   Li’napsoi Zone
lone Brit git quaffs    gin    compu face
purdy Botticelli   gin glasses    menthol beauty
Cronnellini Bauhaus    psyche blot    4 one 6 travel gate
alley piss    sparkle gin    dye guts

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Szechuan seduction   smack travel lug   Soviet Simona sucks video drone
café nub glass   hot medium    St. Clear   burs
hot mediation    lark pulls    blam history dunce wakes    holds
mat on Broadway    Celtic ohm    hovers   homlo   ology
Dotonbori overhang    ermeneutica teppismo   circle tent x
monkey see   monkey boink    jello   job
green glow   violet hum    hums    jib
warm woo-woo   woos   bib    liography    comma shoes
on call    lit escort groove moves
nameless street in Provence   grove    under Cypresses
lost sons by ashes held    by fire lost   flirt   coma
x = x    night    epitaph   ology
bough   word gang fairies    powder
Zorro’s woods now    lurking   chasuble    filthy bellaology now
unconscious comm    oneiric bar removal    ology
coup de marge   now    now    now

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placebo tender   named tenderly Saline   sis of Bella   bird brow
soma core    hum-hum homology
Zorro rage    mask tender ology    intimate act    hated streets
intimate morn peach    weep sheets   twin rest   porn song
leave   ask    speak    mourning
fire ash    fish axe    thief noiseless cocked

Gould-hum   Sig toon ditty  – Spoken Word Version by Sean G. Meggeson


Sean G. Meggeson lives in Toronto, Canada, where he works as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. He has written and lectured on such topics as Lacan & James Joyce, neurodiversity, and interspecies intersubjectivity. His chapbook, Cosmic Crasher and Other Poems has been published by Buttonhook Press, 2024. Meggeson was the winner of the 2024 League of Canadian Poets Spoken Word Award. Poems forthcoming in antiphony press and #Ranger Magazine. Twitter: @lippykookpoetry, Bluesky: @seangmeggeson.bsky.social

Art: “asterisk” an asemic poem by Robert Frede Kenter (c) 2025. Twitter: @frede_kenter, IG: r.f.k.vispocityshuffle, Icefloe22; Bluesky: @rfredekenter.bsky.social

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