{"id":9331,"date":"2012-11-18T22:24:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T20:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=9331"},"modified":"2012-12-30T22:40:13","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T20:40:13","slug":"poems-by-marc-vincenz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=9331","title":{"rendered":"Poems by Marc Vincenz"},"content":{"rendered":"

click aici<\/a> pentru versiunea rom\u00e2n\u0103<\/p>\n

Continuum<\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

(previously published in Altered Scale<\/strong> in the original English)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

We multiply best<\/p>\n

             in open bodies<\/p>\n

                          with low mass indices<\/p>\n

             swarm and flock<\/p>\n

cluster and conjoin<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

             in dances choreographed<\/p>\n

                          by mysterious natural<\/p>\n

             forces undeciphered<\/p>\n

faithless phenomena<\/p>\n

             but orbed ringed<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

                          swerved or hooked<\/p>\n

             collectors congestors<\/p>\n

of congenital immunity<\/p>\n

             diplomatic border-busters<\/p>\n

                          eye upon unwavering eye<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

             one as many as<\/p>\n

many as one collectively<\/p>\n

             as right to civilize<\/p>\n

                          diversity as right<\/p>\n

             to arithmetic mutation<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

towards adaptation towards<\/p>\n

             conceptualization towards<\/p>\n

                          definition and tradition<\/p>\n

             solidifying in constituents<\/p>\n

of a periodic table<\/p>\n

             as yet uncompleted.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

                          They prisoners<\/p>\n

             of a singular atomic vibration<\/p>\n

high mass index inclined<\/p>\n

             confounded to expansion<\/p>\n

                          of the straight and narrow<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

             strive through surfaces<\/p>\n

beyond the own layers<\/p>\n

             in the closed exoskeletons<\/p>\n

                          of their own devising<\/p>\n

             matter being matter being<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

eye to eye too<\/p>\n

             without critical observation<\/p>\n

                          nor mysterious compunction<\/p>\n

             but for degenerative<\/p>\n

deconstruction that rubble<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

             may build rubble<\/p>\n

                          may build rubble again<\/p>\n

             each succession wired<\/p>\n

into the value-chain<\/p>\n

             of being and non-being<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

                          that a creator may<\/p>\n

             draw strings and each and every<\/p>\n

last one may last<\/p>\n

             beyond the great oblivion<\/p>\n

                          at the end of all things.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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 <\/p>\n

Ivan Screaming Blue at the Sea<\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

(previously published in Altered Scale<\/strong> in the original English)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

That seething you, that Ivan beseeching, teasing rubble from random rock,<\/p>\n

  words cleft in your bones & then a pulling like worsted steel from stone,<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

this stressed strata, this layercake of humus, crushed shell & cartilage, & here<\/p>\n

 behind the wall\u2014stretching desert to detritus coast along the backbone<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

of the once muddied now ossified earth\u2014<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

in the mind a crowd still clamors (& with all that finger pointing, spitting<\/p>\n

  & pouting), the sing-song of the String Him Up or, Stand Him Down!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

He who inflicted, who switched off the Perpetuum, he who burned<\/p>\n

  bodies like flat tires (you could see the smoke on the horizon for weeks),<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

he who sterilized for the sake of the children\u2014<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Oh you Shylock, Ivan! foaming in the surf here at the wall\u2019s coccyx,<\/p>\n

  the sea calling you straight you into her arms & sand up the nose,<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

sand spitting up flies & here finally, I\u2019m yelping over the roar,<\/p>\n

  I\u2019m trampling the sodden debris. You can shout all you like!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Even the wind can\u2019t hear you\u2014<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

You who never squandered, who padded your shoes like nobility<\/p>\n

  & in the end, who was painted with the priest\u2019s even breath,<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

as if immortality might save you from yourself\u2026<\/p>\n

  tonight the sea whispers below the wind & the feral moon smiles<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

& once again, in a dimly lit outline of life\u2014<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

you bend down, picking up the threads that worm in the sand,<\/p>\n

  you, Crowned King of Seaweed, Ivan screaming blue at the sea.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Imago<\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

(previously published by Connotation Press<\/strong> in the original English)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

&withintheheadwithintheheartwithintheskintherearenowishes<\/p>\n

                                                                                                      Alltheflavor<\/p>\n

haslefthistongue&anythingworthhavinghasbeenburned<\/p>\n

                                                                                                      leavingnothingbu<\/p>\n

tsingednerve-endingsthatmildlyhumwhenitrainsor<\/p>\n

                                                                                                      when<\/p>\n

alightningstormisapproaching&inthatmomenthetossesinhisbed<\/p>\n

                                                                                                      wraps<\/p>\n

hisdampsheetsaroundlikebandagespresseshislegsintohischest<\/p>\n

                                                                                                      untilagainthemo<\/p>\n

mentpassestheairbecomesthin&heslipsintohispupa<\/p>\n

                                                                                                      waitingtoawakeni<\/p>\n

nhisnewhardshellprayingthegodswillgranthimwings<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

click aici pentru versiunea rom\u00e2n\u0103 Continuum   (previously published in Altered Scale in the original English)   We multiply best              in open bodies                           with low mass indices              swarm and flock cluster and conjoin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,77],"tags":[1161,1123,954],"class_list":["post-9331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egophobia-36","category-english","tag-egophobia-36","tag-english","tag-marc-vincenz"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DakB-2qv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9331"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9413,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9331\/revisions\/9413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}