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The triplets set off in opposite directions
One crowned
by fire One enthroned in water One in a halo of air
So thread
their maps
to
thaumaturgic
wish
Like Strabo --a mercenary of motion
The triplets can’t be identical though they trick you to
start
rivers
rumors
a raptor
among the migrating birds
bearing GPS
the paragogues look up
so light the wick
let quandary burn in the foundry
ash chronicle
Nouns drop out muscles slacken spasm organs prolapse tastebuds dim
Evidence collectors crowd around reading rings on fallen trees
An-archeaologic as taxonomy
skeletal locations minus viscera
The wish to be disembodied is the wish to escape history
Memoratz
…this feeling
that I is really the last person who reads or writes.
--Julia Drescher
Dark tourists of
Bessarabia
As for access my
faces
only imitation
slides on loose
scree
of mirror
neurons
Not theirs
either
river, creek,
not our portage
or your reply though I hear
Someone changed
their mind
Someone said no one’s home
hung up
inverted
the letters
skeletal
of those who
carry
does
recall
build
muscle
or
like a baby
switched
at birth whose
faces evade
relation
just like
we nocturnal and
diurnal cross
paths invisible
in light and night
bear, stalker,
coyote, surveyor
So
maintain
Days
Unstable
family a viscous
engine oil
fluid accusation
predator tales
Susan Gevirtz's books of poetry include Burns (2022) Hotel abc (2016) Aerodrome Orion & Starry Messenger (2010) Thrall (2007) Hourglass Transcripts (2001) Black Box Cutaway (1999) PROSTHESIS :: CAESAREA (1994, reissued by Little Red Leaves, 2009) Taken Place (1993) Linen minus (1992). Her critical books are Coming Events (Collected Writings) (2013) and Narrative's Journey: The Fiction and Film Writing of Dorothy Richardson (1996).
Gevirtz
works with Prison Renaissance and Operation Restoration as a writing mentor to
incarcerated people. She has collaborated with many sound, visual and
performance artists. In 2004 she and Siarita Kouka, Greek poet/restorer of
maritime antiquities, founded the
Paros Symposium, an annual translation and conversation meeting of Greek and
Anglophone poets. With Kouka and guest organizers Helen Dimos, Eleni
Stecopoulos and others, the Symposium has met since 2004. She is based in San
Francisco.
