Ten Poems
Marcia Arrieta
fragile the reality
uncover order
or maybe disorder
evasive music
idea emotion
emotion idea
see.
“read without remembering”
—Gertrude Stein
lighthouses
& wind
configuration
seclusion
or the hawk’s flight
irregular melodies
of time & place
the sound of tumbleweeds
or cliffs silently eroding
connotative
the enchantment of the
imagination
mail trucks deliver pine trees
we plant them in clouds
blue moon
blue light
Kandinsky’s triangle
O’Keeffe’s philosophy
the stability of the land
the vision of trees & mountains
the garden in flower
after reading Hildegard of Bingen
cross-bearer of the mysterious
cadence formal training into enlightenment into humility
the psalms as consolation dream through tribulations
consecrated the sanctity of continue—harp & staff
blue sculpts syllable passageways into interiors
architectural vision music
on the threshold
the library the moon a blue handbag a wolf
the map the sculpture French to be translated
a box without two walls the idealist the recluse
murals & the sea
vacant field
endless the necessary dressed
in emotion detached experience
movement forward radiant
time borrowing reality
observing night geography
resemblance themselves
gathered without limitation
metaphor’s journey
the epicycle
transforms geometry
into an ibis
or
luna moth
the phenomenon
like
faith
or
versatile
a walk
in
transpose/
transpire
slowly we make our way
the lake is a tree is a hummingbird is a dragonfly is a sail
is a timepiece is a heron is a memory
art times music times poetry times philosophy
the compass & the river
shoreline
garden lights
airborne
we mend the holes
bury denial
dismantle daylight
sit by the fire
the golden fish swims
Marcia Arrieta’s recent work appears in Otoliths, Of/with, Stoneboat, Paper Nautilus, Wicked Alice, Moss Trill and Barrow Street. She has two books of poetry: archipelago counterpoint (BlazeVOX, 2015) and triskelion, tiger moth, tangram, thyme (Otoliths, 2011). She edits and publishes Indefinite Space, a poetry/art journal.
