3 Poems

by Penny Newell on June 22, 2016

INTRODUCTION...

INTRODUCTION
Sestina (Altaforte), vis. the unwritten poem.

I did not expect to see
a skeleton green
behind the ash-fall
of colours

Sestina (Altaforte), vis. the unwritten poem.

Introduction.
INTRODUCTION
        Early one morning, words were
        Subsiding transport had
        May God forgive
        Or, as we said,

Thebes is slow
goings on
to eyes to lids

Introduction.
INTRODUCTION
Sestina (Altaforte)

I loved the day
that ruined itself
upon the wind.

Beech

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I – INPUT: / OUTPUT:

To my many young and beautiful friends
who used to be lovers:
and the rest: who work
now work to pieces of people
at computers: to all
creatives: never the lesser ended
great use for these eight fingers,
to fear the momentum
of stack-handles, to feet on the slight
of the roll-along floor, the
skin-pocked carpets of our future
barred to the door, to make love,
I reckon
in pixels, only
only to each other,
in the basement of a library.
Against the days-numbered decimals
of Aristotle:
ΠΕΡΙ ΑΙΣΘΗΣΕΩΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΙΣΘΗΤΩΝ.
(trans.) I feel young, benumbed and taut together.
Those unwarranted, unexplained
capital letters.
Poems as rigid, too, as rigid as those letters,
the lifelike mnemonic of time
blending two past lovers,
my mind estranged by the law
that water is the thinnest of all the liquids
more difficult than oil even
to cup in the hand.