please note. a list of postings after january 12, 2012 can be found here
bare
for Cecilia Vicuña
Their books were loose bundles of string.
-- Charles Mannjust
aboutdone
here
dressed in
rags~
story
ofyr life
stringall
balled up ~
in
the endtelo
meres&
spindle –some
children’s
book~
all those
cellsdi
vidingthere
you are~
want
to ask those
chromosomes
why
~
such a clever
molecule
making you
not so ~
-- all those
hydrogen
bonds& you’re
stilllonely?
~
there it
goesagain
that
codon~
all those cells
dividing& you never
feel a thing~
get
tingtoo
big
foryour
brit
chesthat
mo
lecule
~
take
allthose
mo
lecules
tie
yourshoe
~
still
lost in that
tangle
ofinter
stateroads
last night’sdream
a thread~
some molecules
dream up pictures that are nothing –
there you go~
you pick
that knot apart
& then
what? –tie it
again?
studyits length
in sun
namelynothing --
or just
the sun?-- johnmartone
summer 2012
[note. Both John Martone and Cecilia Vicuña have appeared several times on Poems & Poetics. With Martone my fullest accounting of his work & achievement as a poet was in the posting of his poem “geometry” on August 18, 2009. I describe him there as “our greatest living miniaturist,” an appraisal that holds for me into the present time. The new book from which this comes, Molecular Lament, is ready for publication from Martone’s own imprint (samuddo / ocean), along with an on-line version on his scribd page, http://www.scribd.com/john-martone-2968. (J.R.)]
[note. Both John Martone and Cecilia Vicuña have appeared several times on Poems & Poetics. With Martone my fullest accounting of his work & achievement as a poet was in the posting of his poem “geometry” on August 18, 2009. I describe him there as “our greatest living miniaturist,” an appraisal that holds for me into the present time. The new book from which this comes, Molecular Lament, is ready for publication from Martone’s own imprint (samuddo / ocean), along with an on-line version on his scribd page, http://www.scribd.com/john-martone-2968. (J.R.)]
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