{"id":13145,"date":"2020-09-15T08:53:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T06:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=13145"},"modified":"2020-09-15T08:53:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T06:53:33","slug":"poems-by-jade-riordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=13145","title":{"rendered":"poems by Jade Riordan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Winter Carousel<\/strong><\/p>\n

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If I crack open an imported coconut<\/p>\n

& carousel horses stream out like gold<\/p>\n

embossed milk. If I sip the milk-paint<\/p>\n

from sunset hued manes, brighten<\/p>\n

my tuneless tongue. Bleed across<\/p>\n

the pale green saddle like my sex freed.<\/p>\n

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If moondust carnations bloom from polar<\/p>\n

bears\u2019 raw, winter-soft jaws like tundra<\/p>\n

kissing the equator. & I leap, cold &<\/p>\n

Arctic fox-pelted, between the teeth-<\/p>\n

haloed heads of half a dozen harp seals.<\/p>\n

Between the glossy, varnished borders<\/p>\n

decorating a partial world\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 map.<\/p>\n

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If I sand every remaining meridian line<\/p>\n

into smooth ocean. Clench my jaw\u2014<\/p>\n

all angelic, all fox. & tend to, am tender<\/p>\n

to a garden beneath the midnight sun.<\/p>\n

O, I carve a carousel from oven-warm<\/p>\n

macaroons, then ride a milk & wood pony<\/p>\n

off the map\u2019s edge & onto the moon.<\/p>\n

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Another Blue World<\/strong><\/p>\n

I sleep iridescent. Blink the spring
\nazure of my irises: hidden to star
\n-ing. Sky to twilight\u2019s glancing prey.
\nI pin the flight-wrought delicacy of
\nmy thorax to a simple cork board,
\ndisplay my aorta\u2019s small splay. I
\nconfuse myself for an extinct species
\nof moth. Pretend the dusk-dust
\ncan shimmer my imagined wings
\n& an imagined compass-less wind
\ninto being. Pretend the air doesn\u2019t
\nflake like rust\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ed yesterdays
\nin the hands of time. In the hands,
\nmy hands, pinning this life up on
\ndisplay. Simultaneous myth making
\nand self(less) forgetting. An endless
\nnon-REM night spent decorating
\nothers\u2019 rooms, others\u2019 minds.
\nOther(s\u2019) worlds.<\/p>\n

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Ornamental Rust<\/strong><\/p>\n

A sagittal plane, formed by, say, a mirror<\/p>\n

held perpendicular to the sternum, cuts<\/p>\n

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the gentle beast of my body into right &<\/p>\n

Latin\u2019s sinister. The vanity-bruised Yggdrasil<\/p>\n

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of my bronchial tree; the bent light of a punch<\/p>\n

to the gut. Every sunrise greeted by a first or<\/p>\n

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third quarter moon\u2014half woken, half wrapped<\/p>\n

in REM. Every moonrise the staccato envy<\/p>\n

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of a wound for the blood to rush & rust-leak<\/p>\n

back into. To ornament the body\u2019s sky like<\/p>\n

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bloodletting by leech made tainted reversal.<\/p>\n

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Architecture of an Ending<\/strong><\/p>\n

is blueprinted on iridescent beetle
\ncasings & the velvet listening
\nof rabbit ears. In the blue-black bruise
\nof squid ink & the ghost milk
\nof my left eye\u2019s vitreous humour.
\nDesign drawn to the scale of hauntings.
\nWindows like widows. Doors to
\naccommodate the dear & the damned
\n\u2014virtuous, vicious entrance.
\nFloor plan overlaid with secret passage
\n-ways, inlaid with secret markings<\/p>\n

directing one away\u2014skyward, dirtward.
\nToward the apocalypse of a utopia.<\/p>\n

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All The Little Hopes<\/strong><\/p>\n

like starlings or kindling or end<\/p>\n

-ling. Murmuration of lasting<\/p>\n

flame, last flame.<\/p>\n

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The embodiment. The liquid<\/p>\n

warble, the mouth\u2019s delicate<\/p>\n

pucker around combustion.<\/p>\n

Around the epilogue that tastes<\/p>\n

only of hunger<\/p>\n

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\u2014succulent suckling<\/p>\n

of bone marrow & dental pulp<\/p>\n

from the sly grace of another (self).<\/p>\n

Another (faith in) tomorrow.<\/p>\n

(In its trembling, its darling.)<\/p>\n

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