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the roaring

Posted in poems on December 11, 2010| Leave a Comment »

the roaring

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fifths

Posted in poems on December 11, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Fifths

 

1/  it was a far cry

not being mean

 

A quick search and

 

it’s astonishing

 

A fictional portrait:  we are all preoccupied.

 

The ritual:            follow this grain.

 

ever-this

 

ever-this

 

ever-that.

 

 

2/

 

we paddle out

bobbing

 

In the background:                          time-shifts

 

 

Lift this flap:_______________________                          and this: ____________

 

 

and this : ______________

 

 

Denote this as:                  background.

 

 

A quick search shows:                    a tangled truth

 

 

3/ a revolution:

 

we try

 

(we never try)

 

*

 

But         —             I tried

(I did)

 

I couldn’t be mean          —             (ever)

 

 

The ever-line blurs; bleeds; re-seeds.

 

 

In a true-to-life portrait:                I’d be a saint

 

4/ there’s the rub

 

oh, the irony.

 

Denote this to:  empty

 

low

 

any number of “NO’S!!!”

 

 

 

5/  no

when you said “no” to :

 

what didn’t even have time to happen

 

time-shifting time

 

to the background

 

to the ever-lineated

 

 

From a child’s view:  you let go.

 

 

All that bobbing / all that paddling

 

*

 

The days are tangled in me now

 

 

I am the ever-present.

 

 

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Noir

Posted in Uncategorized on December 10, 2010| Leave a Comment »

 

 

Noir

 

 

This is how memory works:

 

Layers. Colors. Clusters. Spots. Vibrations. Epigraphs and the dead.

 

We are the mother of invention:  the dream, the romance,

 

                                                                                                 A place alive.

 

*

 

 

Let’s make this subterranean:   we carpentered it all out.

 

Nail by nail 

 

I:  wanted to spend more time with it.

                                 

You:                                                   

 

                                                                                                            well….

 

 

*

 

This too then will pass – a little thing.  We will learn to understand the difference of echoes and sound.

 

 

*

 

                                 Did you know the word “aye” used to mean forever, as in a lifetime, as in continuous, but now it just means the singular self, a pronoun or self-sacrificing appositive.  Of course, I hitch myself to the Middle English– as I do to forever.

 

*

 

 

This isn’t precalculus.

 

 

 

© Umansky 2009

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