[…]

cer­tain­ly, most cer­tain­ly, I have for­got­ten that friends and par­ents… no thing… no thing
they frame oth­er friends and oth­er par­ents and so on and so forth;

come, come: the resolved ambi­gu­i­ties of the present
safe­guard against a mere­ly dra­ma­tized incep­tion, is that not so?

[…]

post­card 1: breath­less woman incir­cled by damp goth­ic buildings,
2: red skyyel­low hous­es­black water 3. vio­la da gamba

while, in bor­der­line states you crave for all or nothing
you pre­fer to dis­cuss your­self and that

in the man­ner in which that will imi­tate both you and itself!

nev­er­the­less, you can­not find an escape from aton­al reality
(a bosano­va sway for your brim­ming eyes)

with a redemp­tive rhythm: you will be wound­ed unless
you con­tribute to the high­est art of the open ended

where you do not wish for the poem to come to an end
but for it to come as it goes in a per­pet­u­al ending

to cir­cu­late as a holo­gram in your garden
gath­er­ing den­drites from mat­ter and anti-mat­ter invari­ably well watered!

poet­ry can­not be only what­ev­er evades the word:

(your extrem­i­ties have already begun to paralyze
the unaes­thet­ic a riv­er flood­ing you

while every­thing around you becomes curved your mis­siles are parabolas

for you to see to say to do to make appear the final vision
that you do not have time to inscribe

— your dis­lodged self next to you dismayed
watch­es you fade away and sim­ply whispers:

“for­give me but it’s not my fault that we are part of some oth­er part
and that you inhab­it this naïve reality

you bred your mys­tery and brought it to fruition”

to state it face to face would be absurd: don’t say it:
that we, poets (what we? what poets? be that as it may)

bear real­i­ty inscribed in our nether parts[…]

 

 

The poems möbius, 0→1, ♪,  O2 belong to poet­ry col­lec­tion Bel­la Boom (Pub­li­book 2011) and have also been pub­lished in Hel­leni­ca: Nov­el­ty With­in or Beyond Lan­guage: Anthol­o­gy of Young Greek Poets, (Athens: Gavri­ilidis, 2009)

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