tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49951099129351494222024-03-13T06:39:51.106-07:00AknathomiesMaia McPhersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05718408937290939460noreply@blogger.comBlogger168125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995109912935149422.post-86053569827745860392016-05-04T16:30:00.003-07:002016-05-04T16:30:53.550-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I undulate upon the dead grass</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Me, that slithering thing</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With skin and tongue</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Moving as the sun</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Peaks and wanes</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And dies jealously,</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and then Myself, ceasing</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Under the moon-face</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Me, made a crescent</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In its pallor,</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Waiting, waiting</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for a story. </span></span></div>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-51c37ece-7e1b-5113-7112-835542efdf96"><br /></span>Maia McPhersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05718408937290939460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995109912935149422.post-47162452405679114622016-01-23T11:42:00.006-08:002016-01-23T11:42:58.716-08:00UntitledI watched a slow fly,<br />
dying, tie-toeing over<br />
Daniel's Xbox controller.<br />
<br />
It made me think of winter, when<br />
everything is stilling, distilling.<br />
<br />
Now is a soft, thin time.<br />
I am not even a shadow<br />
angled and black on the ground.<br />
I am Without.<br />
<br />
<br />Maia McPhersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05718408937290939460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995109912935149422.post-53367849920580834992016-01-14T06:03:00.004-08:002016-01-23T11:44:52.443-08:00reading letters not addressed to me.Little papers, <div>
folded, unfolded:</div>
<div>
my mother </div>
<div>
signaling</div>
<div>
from behind</div>
<div>
a translucent screen.</div>
Maia McPhersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05718408937290939460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995109912935149422.post-80906589448253604082015-01-06T16:35:00.002-08:002015-01-06T16:35:14.373-08:00teacher
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all that noise:</div>
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having to shout</div>
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in a room</div>
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full of children, </div>
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hardly heard </div>
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over the old hate.</div>
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A new year,</div>
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interrupting</div>
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the winter—</div>
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a start </div>
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with no richness;</div>
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no sweet soil or birth</div>
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only waiting</div>
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in the silhouette cold. </div>
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<br /></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Maia McPhersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05718408937290939460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995109912935149422.post-73955947109889021792013-12-21T04:49:00.000-08:002013-12-21T04:49:05.971-08:00GoodnightCome to bed,<br />
and whisper word thoughts--<br />
let them staccato against my skin,<br />
let me breathe them,<br />
liquored in sleep.<br />
<br />
Many nights are finished<br />
here, in this borrowed<br />
house. And you, infinite<br />
miles from here, but still<br />
hinting at heaven, a clever<br />
riddle for the rest<br />
of my life.<br />
<br />
Am I a visitor in your<br />
quiet place? Amongst the<br />
scattered cards and books?<br />
Do I curl into your laundry<br />
like an tiny animal seeking a nest?<br />
Or slide into your mirror, as if<br />
stepping into the stillness of a winter lake?<br />
Will you eat my memory,<br />
when you haven't any food<br />
in the house?<br />
<br />
And do you hear me,<br />
fizzled in the ether,<br />
dissolved into celestial dust-<br />
asking you to please,<br />
Please come to bed?<br />
<br />
<br />Maia McPhersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05718408937290939460noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995109912935149422.post-16395260199692977122013-12-08T09:51:00.003-08:002013-12-08T09:51:56.267-08:00word conversion
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">My
mind is a great expanse <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And
I wander within<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">it,
this place. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Sometimes
it is a jungle,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">wet
and dream-breathing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">A
house with many rooms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Sometimes,
it is an ice river,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">cold
and whipped turbid, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">thick
with mountain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Sometimes,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">it
is a drained pan of a planet,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">stone-stolen
and lonely,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">seared
by the rip sun:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">wasted.
All, wasted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And
it has also been a salt-flat:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">miles
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">my
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">like
a moving fossil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I
sometimes <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">want
to lay down in it, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the
mystery<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">of
it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">My
body often becomes tired.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">about
ruination. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I
become a child with her hand in her mouth,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">and
paralyzed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">But
always, always<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">words
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">in
the soft murk of the bottom<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">edge
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">It
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">From
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">speaking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I
translate myself, again. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the perfect “O” of the mouth</div>
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making a well into which </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I fall,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
my body eaten by gravity,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
the swallowing of sound.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Into an abyss</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I fall into myself,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
falling forever in</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
the cylindrical darkness</div>
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like a piece of ash,<br />
remembered from<br />
the fire. </div>
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The winter</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> f</span>ull
of half breaths smoked</div>
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is the longest season:</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> a</span> whole life of cold.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The moon inhabits it</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> l</span>ike
a coat.</div>
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Takes its stroll in forever</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> s</span>treet
by street</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Between trees: the textured perfection of their skins</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Sliding on salt heaved sea, the brackish liquid</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
lucid and languid</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
jellied quick upon the world. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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tapping at tables</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
careening over half-eaten sandwiches</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
soggy from the plastic wrap</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
each student troubles</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
the space around them:</div>
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the world knows them</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
by the captivated noise of their</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
bodies, their cascading </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
thoughts, their tinseled throats, </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
their electric teeth. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
abandoned beside them,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
leather pouches burst</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
with scribbled papers,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
the clock calendars their</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
wet skeletons, beating time </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
with minute tickings;</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
they gyrate their jelly-muscles</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
reinventing the environment they eat. </div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A lion opening his yaw,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Wide and earth caven inside,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">holds the great pounding<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Of fire beat, that nagging forever<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">That made creatures crawl<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Shuddering and slime-solvent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">From the first still ponds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">And keeps them calling out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Relentlessly, for a new set of legs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">To take them ever farther,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">to make a distance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">But was there ever a little creature<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Who found the soft shore far enough,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">That found the sand grains wondrous<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">As they flickered moon-sharp?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The in-between body,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">the forgotten step<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">seeping all time through the ground<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">growing like fabled orchids<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">fertilized with god-voice.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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in the form of a squat column<br />
accompanies a photograph.<br />
<br />
The watery connection<br />
of black gray and white<br />
forgets color gladly<br />
and whispers the<br />
the truth of outline,<br />
of engraving:<br />
a face impressed on paper<br />
by light and made luminous<br />
by depth;<br />
the time before the shutter one<br />
of picture-birth.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />Maia McPhersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05718408937290939460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995109912935149422.post-71918073129293901492013-07-31T06:14:00.002-07:002013-07-31T06:14:35.881-07:00NYC
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Three years here, </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
battering my foundations, </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
the resolve gone to re-wake. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And I trip, trip, scrape </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
into the New Year. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
my thighs being my noise-maker, </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
my shuttering eyes confetti. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
In this place, my self</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
is the inconsequence </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
of moon heat. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I wane in an arc,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
my shoulders curved and wet,</div>
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And wax into oblivion </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
dripping, and sweet-smelling.</div>
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My dead mother,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Descending the subway steps</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
In Technicolor:</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
She waits for me halfway down,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Looking up at me,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Trying to see</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The ghost, following her. </div>
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<br />
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There is a terrible love</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And care, and carelessness</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
In the forest. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I will be swallowed</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
By the dark and wood-heat of rot</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Or I will be dissolved</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Into the infinity of paradise.</div>
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<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
red and uncovered skin,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
winter-stained</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
his face is the skin steppe of his life,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
the ground upon which</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
the sun has stretched and set.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Hollowed out by wind</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and work, he is the bulkhead</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
of a freight ship</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
with its heaving glide </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
through infinite arctic pools. </div>
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<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
Religion is routine,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Bringing gods into your apartment.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Their shadow forms dance on the walls</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
While you sweep and mop,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
While you clean urine off the toilet seat.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
These gods follow you and chatter</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Like children, they play tricks on you.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
They are good, troublesome company </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Knocking pens off the desk,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Fidgeting with costume jewelry left out. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
They pull the cat’s tail,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
They make the trash smell sour. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
These gods understand</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
the helpless; the absurd and ridiculous.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
They vaporize and inhabit us</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Joyfully. They are </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
cryptic, and spindly-handsome</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
they eat mood, and lick dreams.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
They are frightened at the movies</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And weep at funerals, for</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Only they know how final</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Death is. Gods don’t have voices,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
But make creature-sounds.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
They are at home always,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Travelers constant, thieving, and </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Generous with stories. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
They fly, they manipulate physics.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Gods know the similarities between</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Science and poems and necessity,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
They don’t need to read, or think,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Because their bodies are their mind’s eye.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Gods ransack confidence, add disease,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Pockmark our abilities, so that we see</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Our selves. They are tiresome,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
they make us brood. We benefit slowly,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
with bitterness in our mouths.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
But eventually, rescinding our</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
slavery to pretense, we appreciate</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
gods. They are not solemn: their noise</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
is constant, their fingers reflecting ours,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
playing skittish, brazen, haunting games.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Maia McPhersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05718408937290939460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995109912935149422.post-32486596458837307802012-11-08T05:56:00.004-08:002012-11-08T05:56:45.586-08:00boatman (Ori Gersht)On still film,<br />
the boatman is suspended;<br />
banished and paddled<br />
into the bareness of alone.<br />
<br />
the deep richness of gray<br />
painting him human<br />
like the whole layering<br />
of the world. And beneath-<br />
the meaning, the endlessness<br />
of meaning in his reflected body;<br />
him, himself existing, doubled, the doubling<br />
of this place and previous place<br />
a hall of mirrors, infinite. Maia McPhersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05718408937290939460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995109912935149422.post-56968166322535424922012-11-06T05:11:00.002-08:002012-11-08T19:49:51.427-08:00No room to paint in.crushing charcoal against paper<br />
the slide of acrylic in plastic colors<br />
pastels wetted and widened<br />
shaping and shaping,<br />
scraping and cleaning,<br />
the adding and subtracting<br />
of art is like breathing,<br />
like seeing,<br />
knowing the value<br />
of fog, the thick moisture<br />
of memory and touch,<br />
a translated text<br />
heard in its first language.Maia McPhersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05718408937290939460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995109912935149422.post-78683120364927824982012-10-30T04:59:00.000-07:002012-10-30T04:59:10.129-07:00fish bowl poetry II.The scare-crow is strung up,<br />
sullen in the bled field.<br />
He is bruise-packed; soaked and seed-shedding<br />
in the wet, tangerine night.<br />
<br />
The rain runs down fence posts,<br />
and collects in the road. The dog<br />
sleeps on the covered porch;<br />
somewhere, the cat listens.<br />
<br />
The grass around the driveway<br />
has grayed and bends low,<br />
The tractor like a tin drum.<br />
<br />
A torn, disintegrating tarp<br />
in the rafters of the barn<br />
moves in the wind. <br />
<br />
The children have left<br />
little things:<br />
buttons, a thimble, bread crust, rust pennies<br />
in the scare-crow's pocket,<br />
the keeper wordless<br />
of the un-bound earth.Maia McPhersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05718408937290939460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995109912935149422.post-57028220739226945942012-10-30T04:25:00.000-07:002012-10-30T04:25:00.552-07:00fish bowl poetry I.Cupid prayed!<br />
-ugly and round like a trampled peach-<br />
that love would come his way.<br />
After so many affairs started-or ended-by his arrows<br />
Cupid had created a confrontational love-world, little islands<br />
of doubt and playfulness.<br />
Cupid hoped, bursting from the window into his new life,<br />
that owning himself would be sweet and selfish.Maia McPhersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05718408937290939460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995109912935149422.post-47929937602595946302012-10-10T17:51:00.000-07:002012-10-10T17:51:23.151-07:00s p l i n t e r i n g t h i n k i n g
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<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
why do I feel dead; or a hundred</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
people at once, </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
a hundred stories</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and a hundred feelings.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
did I already live?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
A hundred years ago, </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
with white hairs like thoughts silvering</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and thinning and burying themselves beneath </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
a heaving and sheltering earth.</div>
<!--EndFragment-->Maia McPhersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05718408937290939460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995109912935149422.post-20213910475540943892012-09-10T18:01:00.001-07:002012-09-10T18:01:40.059-07:00welcome, autumn.binded black-tied<br />
into friday night<br />
I gallop in streetlights<br />
like the cooled sun<br />
sunk into the folds<br />
of my coat and seeping<br />
skin deep<br />
until I am night-warmed.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />Maia McPhersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05718408937290939460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995109912935149422.post-66016173050306690922012-07-14T07:22:00.000-07:002012-07-14T07:24:25.764-07:00VI.<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do not want certain things:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do not want the sharp shapes of
sick, of dying, diagnose me.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do not want leaving, and being
left be at the center of me.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do not want all the bitternesses,
the second guesses, the stone</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of
experience without post-script consuming me.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do not want to want calm without
clarity, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> the city beneath the soft salve and
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I want to lay in a whole chapter, a
word-hoard of sense.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
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choosing of sound or soundlessness.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I want my sameness, I want some
sweet alienation-</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> enough
to make moonscapes out of leftover moon rocks.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I want a language that ripens in my
lifetime and hums in my family’s throat.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I want to see everything, over
again, first, last, and future. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I want all the suicides of a day,
the syncopation of thinking, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> the fullness of arriving.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>Maia McPhersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05718408937290939460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4995109912935149422.post-91043418661138364742012-07-12T03:33:00.002-07:002012-07-12T03:33:37.294-07:00V.Our ship<br />
slides warm and wasted<br />
into the sea.<br />
Now, a new hovel built<br />
by mud scratchings and the whip cold<br />
keeps us here, howling;<br />
kept and waiting tongueless<br />
in the tangle-land.Maia McPhersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05718408937290939460noreply@blogger.com0