#jungftak

[lost-technology]

Okay, Everything is Trigun. I was just reading this entry on a blog I regularly go to, Slacktivist. (American Progressive Christian / Lefty political blog). Here, author Fred Clark discusses fictional books and fictional entries in reference materials as copyright traps and how it relates to having a non-literal interpretation of the Bible. Here if you're interested in such things, but entirely skipable to my point. Trap Streets Mountweasels and Made-Up Words. He profiled a word I'd never heard of before - one of these trap-words, something that has essentially become a real word - for a made-up creature. ____________________

an entry for the word “jungftak” which is a fanciful invention, a “Persian bird, the male of which had only one wing, on the right side, and the female only one wing, on the left side; instead of the missing wings, the male had a hook of bone, and the female an eyelet of bone, and it was by uniting hook and eye that they were enabled to fly.” That entry is fictitious because there is no such bird. ------------------------

And here I go flashing back to the end of Trigun Maximum / ending episode of Stampede where Millions Knives and Vash the Stampede are flying locked in each other's arms with one wing each... Goddammit. And I idily wonder if Nightow was inspired by this fictional bird, but probably not, because it is so obscure and it's copyright-trap made up for English-language dictionaries. It's probably entirely coincidental. Still... Dammit.

[waste-lit]

Jungftak

noun, a fabled Persian bird with only one wing that can only fly in mated pairs

He dawdles around across the forest floor dreaming of the time and space in which he will meet the sky. His waddle is like a metronome, keeping time to his awkward footsteps. The metronome counts the beats until he will fly. Wondering the forest floor, the jungftak creeps in the shade, waiting still as a statue under the gaze of hungry eyes. You can’t see me he taunts in his head. He comes to life in spring, aware that mating season has begun. If he wishes to fly he must woo a female. He inches into the sunlight to find presents to gift her. On the first warm day, he emerges into the sun-patched meadows to gather the brightest flowers for his mate. He tucks them into his feathers for safekeeping, like coins in a pocket. His feet keep the metronome beat going, a march in dedication to the moment he will take to the sky.

[specgram]

From the Archives!—Jungftak Feathers: http://bit.ly/1S4t2uD

[marchioness-of-the-flowers]

Jungftak [noun]

"A Persian bird, the male of which had only one wing, on the right side, and the female only one wing, on the left side; instead of the missing wings, the male had a hook of bone, and the female an eyelet of bone, and it was by uniting hook and eye that they were enable[d] to fly, -each, when alone, had to remain on the ground."

(Webster’s Twentieth Century Dictionary- an example of a mountweazel. Which is the term for a false entry in a Dictionary)

[jaxntp-poetry]

Summer 2016: Eley Williams publishes 3 poems by Jax NTP 

“Of Tendencies: The Body’s Relationship with Language” 

“Of Tendencies: Pin it” 

“Ante Meridiem V: NovelLust, MilkHeavy 

http://www.jungftak.com/#/of-tendencies-/ 

“From Webster's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (New York: The World Publishing Company, 1943): jungftak, n.a Persian bird, the male of which had only one wing, on the right side, and the female only one wing, on the left side; instead of the missing wings, the male had a hook of bone, and the female an eyelet of bone, and it was by uniting hook and eye that they were enabled to fly — each, when alone, had to remain on the ground.For a speculative fieldnote illustration of the same, please see below.” 

http://www.jungftak.com/about

http://www.jungftak.com/authors

[zarfpoetry]

our next poetry reading – we’re incredibly excited for this one!!

CA Conrad

Linda Kemp

& Calum Gardner

7pm, Monday 6th November 2017 Wharf Chambers (Middle Floor) Wharf Street, Leeds

FREE but donations for poet costs are welcome and there will be a book & zine table!

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CAConrad is the author of 9 books of poetry and essays and the latest is titled While Standing In Line For Death from Wave Books (2017).  He is a Pew Fellow and has also received fellowships from Lannan Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Headlands Center for the Arts, Banff, RADAR, Flying Ojbect and Ucross. For his books, essays, and details on the documentary The Book of Conrad (from Delinquent Films 2016), please visit http://CAConrad.blogspot.com

Linda Kemp’s poetry publications include Lease Prise Redux (Materials, 2016), Blueprint (2015), Immunological (2014), and an album, speaking towards (2015). As a free improviser Linda performs with piggle, soft architecture, After Lucretius, and in other formations and solo guises, usually to be found around Sheffield and its environs. They edit Enjoy Your Homes Press and co-run Electric Arc Furnace, a poetry reading series in Sheffield.

Calum Gardner is a poet, critic, and editor of Zarf poetry magazine. Originally from Glasgow, Calum currently teaches English Literature at the University of Leeds. Their poems have appeared in places such as Datableed, Jungftak, 3:AM, and Adjacent Pineapple.

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PLEASE NOTE: the venue is up a wide flight of metal steps. We are keen to put on events in fully accessible venues in future and please get in touch at zarfpoetry@gmail.com if you have thoughts on this.

Wharf Chambers is a members’ co-operative, You do not need to be a member or guest of a member to attend this event UNLESS you wish to buy things the bar. Joining is £1, takes 48hrs to process and is very much encouraged. http://www.wharfchambers.org/membership/

[wordsbyfern]

One of my shortest, oldest prose poems has been published in the first issue of the online literary journal JUNGFTAK, thanks to Eley Williams, a talented writer I met at my first spoken word event who is responsible for lines such as "the world tasted of tired mint." 'Ave a butchers.