Presenting engagements (including reviews) of poetry books & projects. Some issues also offer Featured Poets, a "The Critic Writes Poems" series, and/or Feature Articles.

Saturday, May 2, 2015

SHE, A BLUEPRINT by MICHELLE NAKA PIERCE with SUE HAMMOND WEST

PEG DUTHIE Engages

She, A Blueprint by Michelle Naka Pierce (text) and Sue Hammond West (image)
(BlazeVOX [books], Buffalo, NY, 2011)

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A Bronze Waltz
[a found poem: all phrases from She, A Blueprint]

A sweet floor
might not be needed
where cerulean meets ink
if the space between disappeared
if the outside were the disappeared
lacquer deteriorated

normally this would have been the end
but
this strain for something
cannot continue
knots
jolts
furniture
paradise




Visibly Part of a Ghost Effect
[another found poem]

Inked with Sep-timber
she cannot bear rest
she made lists and more in secret
she is not as sound as a continual puzzle

the light
projecting a trapezoid
sets in on the slats

she drinks
spit
her vacancy
coincidence in color
a deliberate attempt at never

when she moves
take back the fence post

a flicker
a matchbook
the cut floor
city avenues
out of bounds
the catapult of particles

this is an instruction manual



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Peg Duthie is the author of Measured Extravagance (Upper Rubber Boot, 2012; http://tinyurl.com/MeasEx). She mops floors in Nashville.



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