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aw of matter carlos pardo translated by curtis bauer first published in the dirty goat 25 dance of life 2 artist anatol knotek questions about love from what i have heard of love people don t give their heart our heart flies from us and we can choose to follow or not from translations by brian friel i too have heard tell of love the stories speak of something solid something with body something we can hold tight against our frightened chests like a living heart other stories tell of love as blood loss or even war where some never come back babies never get born painful things not something i would ask for we must be born wanting this love business perhaps its indigenous state is other than what we ve been told perhaps it s like fresh olive oil cut crass cool dew or new wine that tastes of mango and lemon it could be the freak storm when the rain fell horizontally or sophia who flew straight through the customs barrier into my arms or perhaps it was the thick black clouds of sweeping swallows that circled my quiet house for days settling on the grass in the almond branches all over the roof as if the pepper pot had flipped over and then suddenly gone one morning i think love might be the fragment of a poem that comes to one while walking between spaghetti and ham in the market by the metro station and the rush to get home and the days afterwards of telling it over and over until it is right there alight on my fingertips becky d sakellariou earth listening hobblebush press 2010 followers artist lea kelley the end oblivious the holy man of god s voice unctuously tries to put at ease each desultory listener he lauds redemption at my somber obsequies mark how he speaks of hard earned paradise yammering in his sober self restraint deliverance from evil sacrifice effusions both of angel and of saint as if this earth were not the world to me despite it all it s all i ve ever known be slow to throw away my ecstasy of fire air and water blood and bone death may have come to hurl me heavenward yet love shall live and lie unsepulchered catherine chandler the hypertexts 2005 ca şi cum glissando departe de unde mã aflu pragul de fulgi arginitii cerne spaţiul stelelor cârcotaşe ca şi cum ca şi cum totul n ar fi decât o simplã ezitare de a exista sub globuri mãrunte adunate în luminã si mansarda lor un solstitiuce reverbereaza intr un timid glissando cu tonul unor ploi ce abia incep irina moga as if glissando far from where i am the threshold of silvery flakes sifts the space of crumbly stars as if as if this was a mere reluctance to exist below orbs of fused sunshine its attic a solstice that resonates in a timorous glissando with the tone of incipient make believe rains irina moga upheavals the february 27 2010 magnitude 8 8 earthquake in chile moved earth s figure axis by about 3 inches affecting the earth s rotation shortening its days and moving the city of concepción at least 10 feet to the west from nasa website the dire catastrophe the flood the quake the hurricane is hailed as breaking news but unreported wrecks the hearts that break more quietly those worlds of waterloos those galaxies of grief of x d off days outnumber each spectacular kaboom that shocks and awes and tends to paraphrase the terms of our unmentionable doom our children too will one day come to know that there are strings attached to happiness and to the puppets in the puppet show that subtle shift in rapture when they ll guess at something out there which in time devours the careful crust of uneventful hours catherine chandler the hypertexts 2005 copyright catherine chandler first published in the flea october 2011 too late to cr y artist lea kelley pond how it resembles a myth in its inner shining a little kingdom a sunken palace of weeds within its borders silence and the unknown you may enter it briefly if you stay you die kurt brown agni online 2008 three horse heads artist robert joyner horsemen of afghanistan flesh against tanks i saw them streaking across the tv screen the horses once the pride of the north butter fed pampered and prized bred for endurance and speed trained to be one with the chapandaz to excel on the field of the buzkashi a way of life a culture lost equestrian royalty used as antiquated tools of war to be sacrificed by terrorists imperialists and those of us who think we can offer a better way judi van gorder a knock on the door they ask me if i ve ever thought about the end of the world and i say come in come in let me give you some lunch for god s sake after a few bites it s the afterlife they want to talk about ouch i say did you see that grape leaf skeletonizer then they re talking about redemption and the chosen few sitting right by his side doing what i ask just sitting i am surrounded by burned up zombies let s have some lemon chiffon pie i bought yesterday at the 3 dog bakery but they want to talk about my soul i m getting drowsy and see butterflies everywhere would you gentlemen like to take a nap i know i would they stand and back away from me out the door walking toward my neighbors a black cloud over their heads and they see nothing without end james tate published in shroud of the gnome the echo press 1999 with permission 中秋節 我打開窗戶 讓寂靜逃逸 劉鎮歐 moon festival i open the window letting out silence chen ou liu published in ardea 2 1912 does it matter if it s been done before blue night chen ou liu published in fri haiku 2 summer 2012 war child artist michael d edens the start of the war through bare branches i spy on my neighbors houses spring evening the wheel of a troop carrier crushes a lizard young grasses a mountain bleeds from a helmet full of dreams dimitar anakiev abstrakt artist maria kondimäe the ambiguity of clouds never mind the clouds say as they drift above her never mind when you first heard as a child you thought they meant let it go don t fuss about it believing the phrase implied all would be fine if you didn t obsess if you didn t let things fester time has taught you another meaning death has taught you loneliness has taught you it s never the mind that gets you close to beauty the first and last of things or any of the wisdoms you long to know there s no word for what can take you there though it has something to do with the eyes of horses the body s workings whiskers sandpapering across a cheek a woman s laugh loud enough to bend a row of ripening wheat who laughed like that and when and where were you never mind never mind is it possible the clouds say that mindless as they are all if you can call them that cumulative and shifting shape mare s tails ephemera fish bones a lung bleached of blood an inky brain not thinking just folding and refolding all afternoon long sheets of rain they never mind lorna crozier published in small mechanics mcclelland stewart publishers 2011 ruth bavetta from rattle 29 summer 2008 four short poems slowly i eat up a spring day quickly dissolving single married single again a rushing river gnarled trees should i tell her what s on my mind drifting laughter the eyes of a street dog chen ou liu 劉鎮歐 beach shadow photographer bob arnold let there always be the bright juice of oranges sun on the kitchen tiles a small nonessential bird unraveling morning silvery snail trails blue iris the gopher the palm tree the goat that found its way into the house pigeons stitched onto telephone wires the clear sound of the sea a time when everyone is away a plate of milk a tin of strawberry j a m but never again the open gate to the empty house down the street the algae drowning the abandoned pool the man who stood by the edge beginning the dirge the still water the small blue shoe ruth bavetta antiphone issue 2 winter 2012 10 july 2012 featured poet series issue no 1 july 2012 poems and art by bill knott the rain effigy besides its breezes the play of whose yield is greater than day s we feel the sky as prior as pilgrim the cleave in our love leaves a field or bare place for where to build strangely energized by the windshield wipers animated by each stoplight s imperative by every presence other than our own grown so absent we drive toward the horizon that groveled traveler and we ourselves might kneel before ourselves if all our effigies hadn t crumbled decayed to a bare stoop pedestal that stance of us as we kissed was not as statuary as we had planned was it less foot less firm three short love poems the trafficlight on lovers leap never changes to red your nakedness the sound when i break an apple in half love almost always waits for its terms to become vague before it starts me you to a dead friend mourning clothes worn inside out would be white if things were right if opposites ruled if truth prevailed then me and you would be two instead of the one we ve become haiku raindrops windowpane i can t see myself wearing more daring outfits site echoes circling a tree with people to protect it from people to add another arc to its years may not suffice hold poems up as the bulldozers come claim your lines are rings nearing the core of a word for wood for all the earth lifts it will not suffice far from its aureole bole your whirl grows whole only in ground weeds in sleep we brush the other invisible moon its caves come out and carry us inside boy at the mirror a child emulates what he can t know is true a murderous dew that appears every morning to be his face but already it evaporates at a touch the lurking effects of the unity granted by night are never enough to maintain this ripeness called time this waking up to a cherub scope that looks back at him in the glass growth like hammerblows a devil checks off a list the routine begins so early and even the wattage of the womb behind him is too bright too ready to hale an unsought self into sight to live by work from the original toward the beautiful unless the latter comes first in which case reverse your efforts to find a model worthy of such inane desire even the mouth s being divided into two lips is not enough to make words equal themselves eavesdroppers fear the hermit s soliloquy wake up wound the knife said footnote all of us who lived on earth and all our loves and wars may not appear at all in the moon s memoirs painting vs poetry painting is a person placed between the light and a canvas so that their shadow is cast on the canvas and then the person signs their name on it whereas poetry is the shadow writing its name upon the person the cycle what s the use waking all night to write down truths which dawn quite easily refutes babblegate in early childhood an act consists of another act a multiplying chain of this and that cat windowsill sunlight they re all events instead of sights but eventually they too give way to the eye time distances the other senses until one becomes intent instead of intrinsicate that s why dimensionally i can only try to run toward the place i ve already passed squealing ba ba ba ba ba ba buh poem see the unicorn s empty sword how its lack takes place in a lack of place nothingness is its own niche unspeakable a comma is a period which leaks l id each time i blink is a lapse in my life each blink outlives me the one i was before the blink is never t he one i am after and the one i shall be desires me to cease quenched with each crease instant of the lids an eye juggled on the tips of its own lashes might see who i have been then my river the closer it gets to the sea the more it aches for its source the wound that sprung it from the ground questions before we re born we re lowercase and after we die we return to it only life renders us in capital letters every headstone ms should really be edited by clones of e e cummings life is caps for the usual reason an exaggerated sense of the significance of one s thoughts life is a beat poet upper existence or lower nonexistence i m sure the eye adjusts its focus towards either case but which is easier to read greatness or goneness headline or poem life or its foreword afterword mishap message i bandage my wristwatch to stop the bleeding of time but time is perforce the wound out of which space empties einstein s bag of marbles the greenie i shoot at its sister the moon the purey i bury with a note saying no the blue one weighs in my hand as light as sky minus earth earth of course is the last marble i like to hear it roll around my showerstall before i fall into the drain into that distillate of distance we call ocean whitecaps whitecaps beneath each of which a nurse bobs up and down cold fingers hold my wrist cold toes probe my throat is that my pulse i ask sisters is that my life is that the onomatopoeia of the waves words that jumble space with time laughter tumbling down a telescope words that turn to marble all i say white as my years they bleed they bleed away white but white as only einstein s hair is white or a note slipped under drowning doors the balloon that lived on the moon the lower gravity was kind to it it could bounce and soar higher than earth allows so the balloon was happier by far and soon forgot the puncture culture we perpetuate down here where the hate pins of our eyes skewer the frailest inflation the beadiest bubble is not safe but up there the bleak unpeopled landscape mirrrors more faithfully a balloon s own sterility and essential snootiness consider what a round object by its perfect nature excludes how its boundaries segregate the in from the out and show what is enough and what is less so when you think of the balloon that lived on the moon you might wonder why all its brothers and sisters because can t you feel how when one tugs your hand deft with that upward urge how much it resists your touch how endlessly you are not a part of it state dinner the diplomatic corps doles and controls these photo ops that show how treaty works their peace party pops with as many corks as it would take to fill the bullet holes in the bodies of all the people they negotiated away in trade today in order the dead you wrote about in order to forget about so you could write about the living are still living there where you aren t the retrieval in order to recapture the features of the one lost one must gaze first into nothingness in which the semblance encountered should be blank so it can flit across the screen of expectation and wither all the images there as we scan the past for someone any the same we see must be cipher enough to erase that old recognition which we hold in our mind the search necessitates losing the present to the degree we pursue its opposite the ratio may not be exact though and we may lose more time than we regain the numbers may not even out there can be an excess of loss a gap that greets us when we return to our senses clutching whomever we ve brought back to this void which can t be filled by the thus recalled person no matter how beautiful they hover here now in place in face of us summer days a butterfly with a sandwich bite out of one wing flies away from the inhabitoads of our shadow or tries 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