Eratio


 

 

 

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.

 

 


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