{"id":13023,"date":"2020-06-14T07:36:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T05:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=13023"},"modified":"2020-06-13T21:55:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T19:55:43","slug":"poems-by-patrick-hurley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=13023","title":{"rendered":"poems by Patrick Hurley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Non-Euclidean Shapes]<\/p>\n<p>picture tides and<\/p>\n<p>crowded landscapes<\/p>\n<p>of isolation<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the flag of the desultory<\/p>\n<p>conquerors has fallen<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>insects of chance and<\/p>\n<p>empty space eat away<\/p>\n<p>at the remaining fibers<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the unnamed portion of the night<\/p>\n<p>invites all manner of phenomena<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>discarded objects are mapping<\/p>\n<p>a surface where no surface was before<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>moving across a stable crust<\/p>\n<p>seeking airy corridors\u2013\u2013<\/p>\n<p>we gamble on another<\/p>\n<p>elusive structure<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[Positive-Negative Primate]<\/p>\n<p>a fissured blackness is expanding<\/p>\n<p>the fissures are delicate and<\/p>\n<p>appear white against<\/p>\n<p>the black background<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>they two will expand<\/p>\n<p>grains of rice in a heap<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the misgivings of<\/p>\n<p>a comically named monarch<\/p>\n<p>may be driving this farce<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>a boulevard of dead trees<\/p>\n<p>is a deserted street at midnight<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>appropriated concepts<\/p>\n<p>tick their half-lives<\/p>\n<p>into repetitive digressions<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>uniformed primates troubleshoot<\/p>\n<p>these myriad devices\u2013\u2013<\/p>\n<p>who devises alternatives?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[Blue Hubris]<\/p>\n<p>this black fire<\/p>\n<p>travels up the spine\u2013\u2013<\/p>\n<p>pain is a lush<\/p>\n<p>tropical plant in bloom<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>some await the vectors<\/p>\n<p>of colorless storms or<\/p>\n<p>crawl across shifting<\/p>\n<p>indigo surfaces<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the tragedy of human ingenuity<\/p>\n<p>reprogrammed the oscillations\u2013\u2013<\/p>\n<p>another worn out mechanism<\/p>\n<p>from another era rusts harmlessly<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[Memory Implant]<\/p>\n<p>dubbed reflections disintegrate<\/p>\n<p>into white particles\u2013\u2013<\/p>\n<p>now will peripheral<\/p>\n<p>movement be prohibited<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>nylon banners burned<\/p>\n<p>by a dying sun unravel<\/p>\n<p>leaving behind a<\/p>\n<p>substitute memory<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>implanted urges subvert<\/p>\n<p>performance in another dimension<\/p>\n<p>for all but short bursts though<\/p>\n<p>some adepts work toward<\/p>\n<p>a mastery that remains unspoken<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>synthetic quadrupeds are<\/p>\n<p>draining the color away\u2013\u2013<\/p>\n<p>their rechargeable snarls<\/p>\n<p>are meant to keep us<\/p>\n<p>from kicking them<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[Broken Monitor]<\/p>\n<p>this vision underneath\u2013\u2013<\/p>\n<p>as a tree might be reflected<\/p>\n<p>on the surface of a lake<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>lost or undiscovered<\/p>\n<p>a misspelled goddess<\/p>\n<p>wandering her densely<\/p>\n<p>wooded fastness<\/p>\n<p>amidst rolling hills<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>this is nature stuff<\/p>\n<p>not pixels or raster<\/p>\n<p>or even chemical creams<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>some bodies may only<\/p>\n<p>be glimpsed for an instant<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>a static storm or<\/p>\n<p>digital tempest<\/p>\n<p>blows in\u2013\u2013blinding<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>try not to see through<\/p>\n<p>but watch the images<\/p>\n<p>dancing across its surface<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Non-Euclidean Shapes] picture tides and crowded landscapes of isolation &nbsp; 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