full moon
a sense of symmetry by
unsayable things
idle circles (set with stars and)
naïve fantasies of a woman,
by landscape
with the lights off and
once you were and at once
altogether
(a hair’s length, but no further)
such bodies as in pictures
stiffened
more flowers than in ink
slow hands and daffodils
the great open fracture of
eternal sunshine (dogged on our
tongues and rising but
never softer than i for you)
the lament: twelve lines of stillness
but beyond and breathless the
blurred edges of a newspaper
supposing the
milky air of our arrival
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10 responses to “Woman, by Landscape”
When the occultism became fashionable in Paris, Victor Hugo, Lautréamont and Verlaine among many others, filled their novels and poems with adjectives that suggested the magical, the stellar and astral. Subsequently, the surrealists were great at finding and replacing whatever adjective could lend themselves to poetic speculation about the ghostly, mind-blowing, mysterious, convulsive and dreamlike. I don’t know where to place the adjectival of this unique poem of yours. Perhaps it could be compared with the existentialists, who preferred them more concrete, simple and direct… But it’s just an impromptu comment, and surely wrong.
Have a nice weekend, L. 🙂
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Well, I don’t know if you’re wrong or right, but I appreciate your comment nonetheless. I wanted to do something a little different here. I have a vague sense of some ways I’d like to play around with language. This is an early attempt, I guess. Have a nice weekend, also, J. 🙂
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For sure it’s different, that’s why I thought it wasn’t necessary to highlight it. In any case, I liked the poem a lot. 🙂
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Thanks very much. And upon further consideration, I think your analysis was probably correct. 🙂
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According to the Law of Total Probability, the possibility of having been right in my opinion is close to 0.07%. Not bad for a guy who is always wrong in life. 🙊
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Oh! Mon Dieu! My poor wic who is always wrong…😥Thankfully, your luck is counterbalanced by that of Paul Hislop, who is always right.
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Yes. Paul has always been a lucky guy … but not with women. He’s so fucking ugly! 😉
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That’s not what I hear…I’m just saying, Melinda told me once you get past those eyebrows… Oh là là! 😍
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Thanks for defending me!
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Anytime 😉
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