perimeter homespun

Marcia Arrieta

BLAZEVOX[BOOKS]
Buffalo, New York

perimeter homespun
by Marcia Arrieta
Copyright © 2019

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Printed in the United States of America

Interior design and typesetting by Geoffrey Gatza

Cover Art by Marcia Arrieta

First Edition
ISBN: 978-1-60964-338-6
Library of Congress Control Number: 2019930786

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incognito

shake the martini in Memory of the road & Spanish olives

[today there is a yellow butterfly in the garden & everything is

dreadfully calm]

add hypothetical disarray.

[enter the art gallery]

primary colors & a dragon’s gaze

[refuge Pleiades]

history appears in the guise of an introduction

[unravel civility]

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a poem in the notebook of dreams

thoughts like
hieroglyphics—
in the womb

la mar las olas

opus dimension

(apart from)

a premise escapes from the mouth

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faraway

embroider the sadness the grandeur

the tiles of time designed like a lake
or hammock suspended between two pines

the woman is thinking too much these days—

lighthouses, meadows, squares on canvas,
Mirós studio, Monet’s garden at Giverny

the language of art unwritten uncontained

silent footsteps outside the rooms
unlocked

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on the threshold

the library the moon a blue handbag a wolf

the map the sculpture French to be translated
a box without two walls the idealist the recluse
murals & the sea

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meteor showers

she finds 3 compasses hidden

behind books in the library

ginkgo leaves fall

in summer wind

she draws an expedition map

(Frost sat at the kitchen table and wrote)

the birds fly

from one tree to another

she remembers awareness

green spaces, light, focused

she reads about Joyce’s

weapons of a writer—

silence, exile,
& cunning

the owl observes

the lion

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unrestricted, unlimited

the nobility of
rhetoric
Wallace Stevens

transcribe
the language
of the pine

outside
the
circle

within
the
wind

arrows
into
clouds

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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

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and therefore in such controversies

where the question is put, who shall be judge? who shall

decide the controversy?

into the forest tumbling [dreams] iconoclast redemption the

garden
in the desert awaiting answers [dreams] to know the wilderness

structure the room indivisible walls rectangle triangle the night

[dreams]
hours & pages recurrent catalogue scraps detached occasional
trembling

inquiry never a day in august the flowers drifting watched

illusions
as if they knew their daughter

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today I weave

the unexpected with time travel

clocks & telescopes & bells

the childhood of invent

the childhood of survival

costumes & masks & boats that sail

the pencil, the book

outside the box of intimidation

The Flutist—Remedios Varo

plays me a song of towers & skies

a key to the ancients a key to the magical

spirals, fossils stars, shells

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