Thursday, May 6, 2021

Prathna Lor : Three poems

 

Tetrahedrons

To make philosophy a living

Corner the world of basics

Consent to unskillfulness

Strategize without debauchery – Why?

Infiltrating blockages

But does a line have a shape?

Does it know it has a mood?

Does it know it makes a face?

Does a line think? When you are unmoved?

Never mind that there is landscape and weather

 

A poem for four hands in progress

It stills pewter, and makes a bane of romp


 

Uncircumstantial

 

I am at a clean remove from fate and sickening

The robust tercet disqualifies me

So I mutate, transfigure

Excuse myself from the brutality of the stanza

I did not know rhyme’s history could be ablated

I sunk in

Gorged on whisper

I became slick, goo

Ring-like and opportune

I listened for deviancy

Was it fog?

Or just happy?

The present is an affection

And knowing that secrecy is best kept open I flung myself on the pyre of speaking


 

 

 

For no other reason                                                   in it to be cryptonometer

than to belong                                                           as in waking animalia

          piously indifferent                                 the severance of titillated mood

fangled lachrymal definitude                                     make waxing cum

                                                                        make surreptitiously loud

meaning defiance + attitude                                      again, divide

it is the woodworking soul in                                    figurines the walk

that most braved form                                               quite expletive although never on time

                                                                        it is a fitting remark to be gay and indolent

here to deny the twilight speech                                I am more hiveranal more

since I was never childlike only                                 testimony

                                                                        if it is in conjugations only

                                                                        that define appropriateness and touch

                                                                        I wring out the mark

                                                                       

 


Prathna Lor is the author of two chapbooks, Ventriloquism (Future Tense Books, 2010) and 7, 2 (Knife | Fork | Book, 2019). Their writing has also appeared in DIAGRAM, C Magazine, Jacket2, and Canadian Literature, among other places.

 

 

 

 

 

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