2.
face down
blithely you thrust
category: container blue
lid to the serene sepulcher
door threshold hearth
twirled instant of
two breaths not mingling but
sideways shattering
i cannot launder silence
chapped gashed leaping
cryptic flung at dusk
fire in place of who
leaves them for you
as if perfect and kindled?
glittering in nitrous looms
every chair every table is not
abutting clay-red burn here
you are quartz and softer
incinerated by some wall
wound up, through
opal hook of space
fingers contort with
traffic but to get there
enzymes resound in light
printing blandness streets
leaking their pulses whir
pathways puddles
some outer beam resisting
hovering as wave and particle
what happens is
not happening fourteen fathoms down
say until
concentric seams between these
garbled currencies
sew themselves reflexive ponds
creek-worn against violet
dangling in vermilion charred
you hissing the not-blood of “I am”
face down
blithely you thrust
category: container blue
lid to the serene sepulcher
door threshold hearth
twirled instant of
two breaths not mingling but
sideways shattering
i cannot launder silence
chapped gashed leaping
cryptic flung at dusk
fire in place of who
leaves them for you
as if perfect and kindled?
glittering in nitrous looms
every chair every table is not
abutting clay-red burn here
you are quartz and softer
incinerated by some wall
wound up, through
opal hook of space
fingers contort with
traffic but to get there
enzymes resound in light
printing blandness streets
leaking their pulses whir
pathways puddles
some outer beam resisting
hovering as wave and particle
what happens is
not happening fourteen fathoms down
say until
concentric seams between these
garbled currencies
sew themselves reflexive ponds
creek-worn against violet
dangling in vermilion charred
you hissing the not-blood of “I am”
posted by Scott Glassman at 7:38 AM
2 Comments:
I like the idea of calling the whole set "helixes" and simply numbering them, and under each number we use a sub-title if there are two or more sections. The one we did from 30 days, can we leave that as a separate poem? -- I feel like it doesn't stick together as much(groupwise with these) as the last two weaves we've done. I like the title style you came up with too "word :: word" and would love for us to do a series of those (of which the blog poem is one). It could be separate series, or collection of individual poems within our chapbook. But "helixes" I think is going to be the main work, I could see it going into the teens. You know what's nice too, is that a simple numeric label for this poem really contrasts beautifully with the headings of its sections. How does that sound?
Sounds great. After taking a few days off and coming back to read this, as you have so nicely laid it out for me, is really amazing. I think this is really an amazing poems- some really amazing moments and an amazing momentum. I'm super excited and ready to get back to work! What's next. . .?
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