Marcia Arrieta





assembling

the spider’s web       pieces of charcoal       the old wooden desk

Berryman’s Henry          Thoreau’s cabin          O’Keeffe’s bookroom

full moon         stopped clock         & within parenthesis         ;

temporal grazing


the field   the woods   the garden   art   writing
quilts     rafters     beams     the house quiet




between marshlands & tides & music


the fences are fragments
we scatter seeds
the owl observes the mountain lion


nearby the sun & dirt in harmony






the coffee cup 

slipped from her hand    &     in the design there were
eagles & tigers & roadrunners      pyramids & water & meditation
a dictionary of ideas & miracles          a labyrinth       an oak

imaginary meaning reality


crumbs           monsters            sand             feathers

Dickinson poems     palm trees     Bach     numbers

essays        sofas        measuring tapes        thimbles

cigars           shells          daffodils          playing cards




everything was in disarray—


although the hummingbirds were happy in the garden


we are the verbal invaded
the houses destroyed

to understand the ideological
we escape to the minimal


shift to the unbound







stratum 

the influence of solitude  the vision of the Mediterranean  no perfect definition
no organization  two chairs in light  & the presence of water

Marcia Arrieta's recent work can be found in BlazeVOX, Claw & Blossom, After the Pause, Hole in the Head, bee house, Otis Nebula, & Word For/Word. Her latest books are perimeter homespun (BlazeVOX) & vestiges (Dancing Girl). She edits & publishes Indefinite Space, a poetry/art journal.

 
 

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