small books of poems.  minimal drawings.
recycle the bottles.  throw out the trash.
there is noise everywhere.  I can’t sleep at night.
there is a pause in reveal.
two points are aligned in the abstract.
please do not ask what it all means.
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books, art
the forms of restless
compose the list
cross-reference
research
into
the threshold of
throw off
running
lessons of
(I’m having a conversation
with you & you are walking
out of the door)
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conversations
nonchronological pencil drawing poems
dreams in blue reasons rectangles a canvas
a painting images objects ideas—shells
pinecones stones—transformation stages
uncharted black ink
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I catch empty white pages
restless the hours
rain imminent
the birds are silent
I must examine the wind
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between
the bird
&
the star
the paper clip
left
on the step
in the sun
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the library of sky
thinking furrow runaway oaks stories
past strength shadowed power
speaking bears fish owls
as if candor could delete the surreal forest
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[ disseminate impulsive ]
poems & characters
         [ exist ]
outside chaos
the slightest canvas theory—
         [exists ]
symbolic
illustrate maybe
Marcia Arrieta's work appears in The Last Vispo Anthology, BlazeVOX, blue & yellow dog, Osiris, Spittoon, Rufous City Review, and great weather for MEDIA's It's Animal but Merciful. Her book of poems triskelion, tiger moth, tangram, thyme was published by Otoliths in 2011. She is currently working on a manuscript of poems and line drawings, inspired by Emily Dickinson's "I dwell in Possibility." She edits and publishes Indefinite Space, a poetry/art journal.
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