“A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
Showing posts with label threads. Show all posts
Showing posts with label threads. Show all posts
Sunday, May 17, 2020
Laundering
Where does one begin
to unpack the suitcase of grief?
While it may be nice to throw it all away,
or donate these shreds,
I find it impossible to imagine
never
wearing those favorite jeans again,
the perfect bra, the stained shirt,
the holy sleeping attire-
I have no desire
to wash and fold and put away
for the 235th time
these obligatory articles.
I sense that grief starts with the smell
held between the threads
and remember distinctly
the quilt my grandmother made me
that fell apart
completely-
like family...
Long gone,
I ponder the scraps
and marvel a few moments
at all the layers we carry
and feel a sudden need
to give the shirt off my back
only to see
how I was made
myself again
woven with only
the softest flesh.
Painting by Aristarkh Lentulov (1882-1943) 'During the laundry', c. 1910, Public domain.
Sunday, November 27, 2016
Thick Skein
Have it together?---Hah! What poet does?
Fight this way, blistered paws
limping along by prosthetic ego
battered by submissions...
battered by submissions...
I could go all day,
with myself
uncooperative, self-ish sot
& yet I say I simply need more
time (alone) to not distract myself; (space) place to dwell, to go to
deeper than time (allows)-and vow to get itthe first Time
...All...withdrawn
Well...further from form-to gather to-gether
...All...withdrawn
Well...further from form-to gather to-gether
the
scattered thoughts
I strew all about, coins and alms, the book of changes,
I knew no doubt
and yet could never finish (the plate, the bread,
butter, indulgence, opulence and chance)
butter, indulgence, opulence and chance)
what I never began officially,
a la carte (blanche)
a la carte (blanche)
Poetically, I prose with white
which shows where will weakens voice
which shows where will weakens voice
I'd have to pick up the line
later where I left it
loose and
too long,
unraveling
at the slightest pull.
How it is all made
Full
of nothing (itself) is something to undo
(& make it knew) reuse and refuse to cycle
So it is sown into the soul
bereft I be
seeking sustenance in vowels,
lighter than care and ever aware
This is All...
of nothing (itself) is something to undo
(& make it knew) reuse and refuse to cycle
So it is sown into the soul
bereft I be
seeking sustenance in vowels,
lighter than care and ever aware
This is All...
Painting By Samuel Lovett Waldo, The Independent Beggar (1783-1861) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Tangled
Second attempts do not require as much effort as first tries.
Thirds are not charms or wheels.
We have all tried to glue back together a broken
relationship, shattered heart
and found the seal wont hold water,
err go-blood must be thicker.
And if string theory pulls through,
we will never undo
these tangled webs we are weaving,
and worse-believing.
Staying connected and on top of,
is anything but breaking free or standing
on your own ground.
We all know that replaying past episodes
does not require a live audience.
Who rote these lines
that we know by heart?
And which is my part?
We can always re-adapt the story line, besides
history is always true in monologues.
Improvisation is life or death. Kill it with kindness lest
the ripple effect, or butterfly analogy
works with wind and waves impartially.
It is really more of the same, unwinding our twisted terrain,
re-threading disconnecting together.
Picking up pieces or carcasses
Unraveling all
that we are knot.
Image credit By NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Image detail info:
English: This view of Jupiter’s moon Europa features several regional-resolution mosaics overlaid on a lower resolution global view for context. The regional views were obtained during several different flybys of the moon by NASA's Galileo mission, and they stretch from high northern to high southern latitudes. Prominent here are the long, arcuate (or arc-shaped) and linear markings called lineae (Latin for strings or threads), which are a signature feature of Europa’s surface. Color saturation has been enhanced to bring out the subtle red coloration present along many of the lineae. The color data extends into the infrared, showing bluish ice (indicating larger ice grains) in the polar regions. The terrain in this view stretches from the side of Europa that always trails in its orbit at left (west), to the side that faces away from Jupiter at right (east). In addition to the lineae, the regional-scale images contain many interesting features, including lenticulae (small spots), chaos terrain, maculae (large spots), and the unusual bright band known as Agenor Linea in the south. This view is an orthographic projection centered on 5.53 degrees south latitude, 214.5 degrees west longitude and has a resolution of 1,600 feet (500 meters) per pixel. An orthographic view is like the view seen by a distant observer looking through a telescope. The mosaic was constructed from individual images obtained by the Solid State Imaging (SSI) system on NASA's Galileo spacecraft during six flybys of Europa between 1996 and 1999 (flybys designated G1, E11, E14, E15, E17, and E19). Date 25 February 2013, 17:55:34
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