Article 11

Marcia Arrieta


to hold us together


in a room up the stairs broken pink edges counter blue upon blue branches stones
inadequacies repetitious echoes research the tree or maybe fire

Joan of Arc wanders in the garden the margin is an open window&nbsp  allusions climb
the ladder&nbsp&nbsp  the cab pulls up at 2 am

advice—who really listens?&nbsp  Freud intones the past development in incongruity
a chimney&nbsp  a portal&nbsp  a hyacinth&nbsp  pieces of tape&nbsp  invisible tape&nbsp&nbsp  identity&nbsp  identities

the net & the sea&nbsp&nbsp  it is easier to draw than write&nbsp  we mirror the idyll&nbsp  the song thrush
guards its eggs&nbsp&nbsp  synchronicity—the lion & dragon&nbsp  we cut strips of reality&nbsp  hands worn



in the silence


we reverse our fates

paint the clock

the clouds a backdrop

a convergence of salvaged paper

the postcards—

abstract concentrated

birds

maybe

roses




minima


.


to

trace


.


sunlight

expanse

pines


.


recovered

imperative

sacred


.


portfolio

serious


.


somewhere




new moon


*

within
woods


*

owls & hermits
gather


*

stone
labyrinth


*

around
the
inside




flight of the ordinary


*

seaweed & sentence

adrift

in

a

wave


*

liberty

is

a

stone

tower


*

gravity

steps

through

fiction


*

the caboose

is derailed




Marcia Arrieta
 
 
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