Marcia Arrieta
the poetry of navigation
the mind hammered
the mind made of stars
(peasants & wanderers & hermits)
we cover ourselves with forest
the sacred a field
remake
the house the circle the hours
into a country of old books
sometimes the pieces need to be
gathered, rearranged in the silence
taping the book together
past present thought memory now
branches wind water light
precisely listening    the owl   the bear
she contemplates The Dictionary of Modern Painting
*
distracted wisdom truth
molecules of paint
or a winter storm
particles of tradition timeless
*
…image and symbol, direct perception and ideal interpretation
*
within the margins
fragments of constraints
pencil currents
transitional minnows
*
Nevertheless, there is a strange contradiction…
*
the words—
leaves, flowers
adapt to the sun or moon
variation
pain
beauty
order
waves
in wings
concrete
concepts
calculations
the paths
the sanctuary
Tower by the Sea
               Klee
prelude
*
(hand-painted)
the orange nasturtium & the narwhal
prelude
*
fugue of the elements
(hand-painted)
Marcia Arrieta recent work appears in Barrow Street, Eratio, BlazeVOX, Daphne, Shuf, Of/with, Clockwise Cat, Osiris, and Great Weather for Media's The Careless Embrace of the Boneshaker. She has two poetry collections—archipelago counterpoint (BlazeVOX) and triskelion, tiger moth, tangram, thyme (Otoliths)—and has a chapbook forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press. She edits and publishes Indefinite Space, a poetry/art journal, now in its 25th year.
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the poetry of navigation
the mind hammered
the mind made of stars
(peasants & wanderers & hermits)
we cover ourselves with forest
the sacred a field
remake
the house the circle the hours
into a country of old books
sometimes the pieces need to be
gathered, rearranged in the silence
taping the book together
past present thought memory now
branches wind water light
precisely listening    the owl   the bear
she contemplates The Dictionary of Modern Painting
*
distracted wisdom truth
molecules of paint
or a winter storm
particles of tradition timeless
*
…image and symbol, direct perception and ideal interpretation
*
within the margins
fragments of constraints
pencil currents
transitional minnows
*
Nevertheless, there is a strange contradiction…
*
the words—
leaves, flowers
adapt to the sun or moon
variation
pain
beauty
order
waves
in wings
concrete
concepts
calculations
the paths
the sanctuary
Tower by the Sea
               Klee
prelude
*
(hand-painted)
the orange nasturtium & the narwhal
prelude
*
fugue of the elements
(hand-painted)
Marcia Arrieta recent work appears in Barrow Street, Eratio, BlazeVOX, Daphne, Shuf, Of/with, Clockwise Cat, Osiris, and Great Weather for Media's The Careless Embrace of the Boneshaker. She has two poetry collections—archipelago counterpoint (BlazeVOX) and triskelion, tiger moth, tangram, thyme (Otoliths)—and has a chapbook forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press. She edits and publishes Indefinite Space, a poetry/art journal, now in its 25th year.
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