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Poems by Marcia Arrieta

Marcia Arrieta

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22 / credit: d. enck

and therefore in such controversies

where the question is put, who shall be judge? who shall
decide the controversy?

into the forest tumbling [dreams] iconoclast redemption the garden
in the desert awaiting answers [dreams] to know the wilderness

structure the room indivisible walls rectangle triangle the night [dreams]
hours & pages recurrent catalogue scraps detached occasional trembling

inquiry never a day in august the flowers drifting watched illusions
as if they knew their daughter

 

to keep the balance

translate the indefinite into the voice of a child, trains, & an armadillo on the road
postcard & stamp collections, ships & the sea, farms, ranches, & a thousand globes

Every work of art tells a story of perspective (Pinsky), riverbank, two birds in a field, the mail continues to be delivered, Miro constellations, as wood sustains fire

the bear walks across the continent

 

manuscript the unknown

bemuse impatient

capable in the wake of destruction

plow essential

nurture imaginative

trace the impossible

ethereal tangible

books, art, chickens, flowers

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Marcia Arrieta

Marcia Arrieta's recent work appears in Word For/Word, Barrow Street, Eratio, Osiris, Synaeresis, Icarus Anthology, Clockwise Cat, Lines + Stars, Shuf, Daphne, and Of/With.

She has two poetry collections—archipelago counterpoint (BlazeVOX) and triskelion, tiger moth, tangram, thyme (Otoliths), and has a chapbook forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press.

She edits and publishes Indefinite Space, a poetry/art journal.

Author: Marcia Arrieta Tags: poetry Category: Poetry August 11, 2017

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