Marcia Arrieta
Marcia Arrieta recently journeyed between the houses of Pablo Neruda and the land of the Moai, and finds herself reading the biographies of Agnes Martin and Robert Frost, and Anne Gorrick's An Absence so Great and Spontaneous it is Evidence of Light. Her current work appears in Anastamos, the winnow, Hobart, Whiskey Island, Osiris, Empty Mirror, Parentheses, & Eratio. She has two poetry collections: archipelago counterpoint (BlazeVOX) and triskelion, tiger moth, tangram, thyme (Otoliths), and a recent chapbook thimbles, threads (Dancing Girl). She edits and publishes Indefinite Space, a poetry/art journal.
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the center holds
we read books. consider decimals. imagination wrestles duties. the trees are portals.
Frida Kahlo. Octavio Paz. Einstein. the invisible a ship. waves. sandstone. light.
articulate
the interval between space & time the forest & the meadow
how we seek the desert the rocks the sky
to contemplate/sketch an existence—
a Benedictine chant a Kandinsky painting a Dickinson poem
the ridge of distant
sea spirits & chains
the furies are snowdrifts
hollyhocks & larkspurs
the fire a tide
instant of survival
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daffodils emerge
Athena becomes a tree
harbors the owl
a mask is found
sun & moon
etchings, echoes
herself
a resistance
a fish
a chrysanthemum
to stray
bulldoze the lines perceived as ordinary anywhere
sometimes toward sometimes away
complete the tasks
personify the lotus
or perhaps the mud
the wind comes fiercely
Poetry should be silent, unread, invisible, inconceivable.
The true poem can never be written or heard.
Charles Bernstein
footnote the painting
slight the momentum
the air is indiscriminate
I travel
covered in seaweed
or maybe reticence
walking in leaves
looking for clarity
or maybe solace
seamless
Marcia Arrieta recently journeyed between the houses of Pablo Neruda and the land of the Moai, and finds herself reading the biographies of Agnes Martin and Robert Frost, and Anne Gorrick's An Absence so Great and Spontaneous it is Evidence of Light. Her current work appears in Anastamos, the winnow, Hobart, Whiskey Island, Osiris, Empty Mirror, Parentheses, & Eratio. She has two poetry collections: archipelago counterpoint (BlazeVOX) and triskelion, tiger moth, tangram, thyme (Otoliths), and a recent chapbook thimbles, threads (Dancing Girl). She edits and publishes Indefinite Space, a poetry/art journal.