Two Poems

 

by Daniel Y. Harris

 

 

 

 

24/Discomfitures 

 

1. this round table project shift towards a general corpus
2. the Greek grammarians of allegoria and hyponia
3. only two of its chapters have been edited
4. Indo-European cultures of suspicion
5. nature, the ocean, the rustling of trees, animals, faces, masks, a skull
   and crossed bones, all speak the semainon
6. gestures and diseases speak
7. the notion of resemblance
8. deciphered cosmology, botany, zoology and satellite notions pivot
9. the convenentia standing to the body as animal stands to vegetable
10. emulatio, Porta’s explanation that the human face is, with its seven
    distinct parts, the emulation of the heavens with its seven planets
11. signature of the invisible
12. for sure the cogito and the divination resting upon the dissension
    between God and the Devil
13. baconian and cartesian critiques within brackets
14. the shock effect, a sort of wound infuriating interpreters with a play
    of mirrors
15. descends from apes in the distributional space in which signs
    can be signs
16. renounces as invention
17. descends along a vertical line of thought
18. in search of the underworld
19. uncovered and then buried
20. a canopy rising higher 
21. spreading visibly in contrast to Perseus
22. the bourgeoisie platitude
23. sick via morphology
24. refuses the Robinsonade

 

 

 

 

24/Mythomanias 

 

1. a schism in the ailing body of empire
2. its own brand rivaled by a new Byzantium
3. diffuses the buried talisman which was conquered
4. suppresses forgotten histories of heretical sects
5. to serve as a frontier garrison
6. missionaries in the wake of heretical knights
7. reappearing in Florence in Kabbalah, Neoplatonism, Egyptian
   mysteries and the cult of Mary Magdalene
8. the mask of Cosimo Medici
9. statues, temples and manuscripts
10. naked figures, smooth columns and a pleiad of young artists
11. looking for a refuge for their tradition
12. denigrated and rejected bias
13. compiled a lexicon for unification
14. in Lunel, Languedoc, a theurgic De Divisione Naturae
15. tropes of expediency, existing to the anxious edges
16. the carbon dating of pharonic dynasties 
17. the cult of Horus and Akhenaten’s solar monotheism as aniconic
18. this battle led by default to a truce
19. the daughters of Danaos brought to Argos
20. Thesmophoria sitting on the ground
21. holy emanations from Sirius and Orion which vivify gods,
    men, cattle, and creeping things
22. fathered some alien but esoteric source
23. savants driven by release
24. looking back altered the same

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daniel Y. Harris is the author of Hyperlinks of Anxiety (Cervena Barva

Press, 2013, forthcoming), The New Arcana (with John Amen, New York Quarterly Books, 2012), Paul Celan and the Messiah’s Broken

Levered Tongue (with Adam Shechter, Cervena Barva Press, 2010; picked by The Jewish Forward as one of the 5 most important Jewish poetry books of 2010) and Unio Mystica (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2009).  He is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee.  Some of his poetry, experimental writing, art, and essays have been published in BlazeVOX, Denver Quarterly, European Judaism, Exquisite Corpse, The New York Quarterly, In Posse Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Poetry Magazine.com and Poetry Salzburg Review.  He is online at danielyharris.com.