Marcia Arrieta





minimal


distraction underscores studio
beginning    serious     direct
understands anonymity enough


walks in sky    carries doorknobs
incorporates bookmarks
questions feathers  stones






intrinsic skies


light as language
escapes the confines

acorns & 
chestnuts

supplemented by
the unconscious

a nasturtium
of thought



torn red paper sun

     after reading Calder


ladder
to
window

desks piled
easel empty

spirals & more spirals

yet the land remains 
ready to plant

 as sculptures arise
from the sea






i made a canoe of bark

                           sycamore & oak & pine

i drifted through the clouds & water






indefinite


the spaces
between trees

the i
 
a flowered
tablecloth

a worn
baby blanket

a prayer card 
a cross



reflections


in old windows
after the lightning storm

clouds 
& sunflowers

the wooden door
& walking stick

the earth calls






an elixir 


of sky & clouds where memories do not fail
seconds defy language & nothingness takes on a new meaning
we do not disintegrate

Marcia Arrieta’s recent work can be found in Word For/Word, The Inflectionist Review, Osiris, The American Journal of Poetry, The Meadow, Big Scream, Spectra, & Borrowed Solace, among others. This year a book of her collages & poetry through time waves (Arteidolia) and her fourth poetry collection within sky (BlazeVOX) have been published. She edits & publishes Indefinite Space, a poetry/art journal.

 
 

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