New poetry from Mark Sargent |
by Mark Sargent |
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SEVEN PATHS FOR TEARS for Nikos by Mark Sargent 1. Steal those rays of sun. From a cloud of tears reach beneath the stage and finger the biology of secrets woven in quotidian fabric.
2. “Google translator doesn’t understand the ko-NEH.” But without it you have nothing but doors without handles and inside phones are ringing but nobody answers.
3. “The teeth of Poseidon gobble the rocks” Crunch it into gravel into sand, same result on the mind of man whether sprawled on the beach or pulling the living out by hand. We just want a life without socks.
4. Love for the weeping ones is shallow, the earth is undisturbed, and the ants push their pure energy over fallow and fertile, there is no circumstance, event or alternative to the life ordained, all being brought to bear maintains.
5. Not defined by what brings them all streaming or in one glacial drop a linger on the cheek, hesitant to fall. There’s no measurement no formula to calculate, only their magnetism drawing us in with a flesh tug pop.
6. To bawl. No one has ever been saved by tears, save in our myths’ melodramas, the weeping mother before Solomon, Pharaoh distracted by a whimper; though Stalin, untethered, was known to be impervious. O, the path beyond tears is paved with trembling bubbles of redemption that no one can travel without destroying.
7. Fear is a preliminary stage, the first act in a long comedy strewn with subplots and tough previews, strikes and tempestuous players, and a Yeatsian ending things, falling apart, the center in collapse, periphery a glow with the improvisations of those making do with invention.
3 May 2013
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