Marcia Arrieta

the ascent is complicated


Turning shadow into transient beauty
                                                  —T. S. Eliot


old pages of the past are thrown into the river

 
 
 

in the night


the recklessness of resemble  

forces beyond pattern  


approximate—


100 pieces of sand

10 goldfish

1 ellipsis




grounded


the road
in  
the 
water

to negotiate
chance
or
maybe
struggle

the broom
against
the 
pavement
 
 

 
 

porcelain & paintings


fish flower bird.   wind wave cloud.
the years.   the walks.   the lampposts.
violets & costumes.   to read another book.  
impatient the desire for illumination.

 
 
 
 
archive the disjuncture


the cross heavy

the surreal a wood


3 goats & a chicken


the angel visible

within the dragon


a green caterpillar walks across the street

 
 
 

misplaced


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poet  sock  artist  key

 
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casual complexity

contradiction

sunlight


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the process beyond subsequently



process


time lost.  impressions.  experiments.  intuitive evolution.
to paint & forget.  monarch butterfly in the garden.  apron in the tree.

Marcia Arrieta's 3rd poetry collection perimeter homespun is recently out from BlazeVox.

She edits & publishes Indefinite Space, a poetry /art journal--- and finds solace in her garden, as well as adventure in reading Tolkien's biography & her journeys to India & Nepal.
 
 
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