from chiaroscuros — VIII, The Grammaton Series
Irene Koronas
15°
Lime and cheese
mix to fix and sketch
the thigh bones
gelded lambs
vermilion
dioxazine purple
and burnt sienna
the indurated stare
choosing to trap
the blank
the throne next to theory
halfperson halfcalfskin
hidden in trope
scrape the lay bole
to burnish and temper
then stampor punch the panel
or ooaona or secco or cuttle
and stir the ground up bone
with saliva or sage
from the second joint
the foul wings or capon
make ashshade
wrap the blunt
dropsim with ink
on carta banbagina
slit the hemlock
and hold the sharp nib
the pipkin over fire
skin the horny tint
and fasten down
the hematite turnsole
or terra verte forms
found on page 34
the cognitome
is a houn drab
in fish glue
and the barbed feather
sweeps. The charcoal
blends the dark fold
white lead peppered
with spindle yolk
nigrum et album concurrant
equaliter ad compositions
coloris medii et tunc erit
equedistaris inter extremos
ut rubedo. Inter album vero
it rubeum non possunt esse
nisi duo, unus magis albo
et alius rubeo. Inter rubeum
vero et nigrum erunt simi duo
in porringer shape
the rind on three
finger boards
slabs in a jar
makes a fat color
fatter than vine twigs
burnt and quenched
condenses in a mass
soot drowns sinoper
as cinabrese does more
for flesh when worked
up with saint john’s white
countenir on a wall
16°
The mudshoe
soiled with chartreuse
its dumbrat chatters
hackred
for the floptronics
are carbon aniline atoms
and benzene rings
on the refractator index
laces eyelet feats
the enigma a crotch
before flex
before mix
bind murals
with the naif and kinetic
debrains on a cartface
with tawgrays
a somod of fanatics
and earcuts
who wear bib erections
meant to sanitize
and bootleg tractors
benton and wood
hymn the bayonetcuss
the asp yellow
whiff flicks chalk
on a blowhard
17°
Musselmann sensor the corpse
as bones pass through
a prurgatoric prism
ash the empiric blend
580 yellow nanites
620 red doxers
520 green semas
the patch
on the palette
the semantic cremature
has its alchemy
in a witchboard
hangs a squinty
a whiffcreep
in dystopia
a yellow star stripteases
on barbwire
red vertical piles
in unequal slices
an orpiment
soaked by a kapo
the pound pigment
smears
pig bladders
on the pinprick
brush
Irene Koronas is an extreme experimentalist. Her The Grammaton Series includes gnōstos, Volume VII (BlazeVOX, 2023), siphonic, Volume VI (BlazeVOX, 2022), lithic cornea, Volume V (BlazeVOX, 2021), holyrit, Volume IV(BlazeVOX, 2019), declivities, Volume III (BlazeVOX, 2018), ninth iota, Volume II (The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2018) and Codify, Volume I (Éditions du Cygne, 2017). Her extreme experimentalism has been published in Alligatorzine,Argotist Online Poetry, BlazeVOX, Buzdokuz, Die Leere Mitte, E·ratio, Graphic Violence, Hyper-Annotation, International Exhibition of Surrealism Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Marsh Hawk Press Review, New Mystics, Offcourse Literary Journal, Otoliths, perspektive, #Ranger, SPAMzine, Stride, Sulfur Surrealist Jungle, Synchronized Chaos, Utsanga, Version (9) Magazineand Word For/Word. She is the Publisher of Var(2x). Her website is irenekoronas.com.