time is transparent
as though I were an
empty street
or an empty sheet of
speechless paper
arrested
by scenery
as the plane takes off
subdivisions look
like crop circles below
distance
this dance
of dislocation
there is a sequel
to these events
odd
numbers
silent
letters
the
local sense
of
things
two
images
blocks
in space
achieving
nothing
to distinguish between margins and boundaries
no longer sleep
just inertia
to protect actual truths
as much as lost opportunities sometimes it is necessary to forget the difference
between the possible and the possibilities
the
unpainted pier
on
the distant shoreline
the
smell of rain
moving
in
a
steady light now
scattered
in time
another
moment
for
reflection
the shiny surface
of direct objects
the fiction of
history
what
eyes conceal
of
voices that will not be denied
of
choices despite history
of lives that have
taken place
every representation
is a distortion
a
change of tone
built
up in absence
of
speech
what space
is for
for what
space is
for space is
what
what space
is for
vanishing
on waking
images
hard to retain
to construct
a refuge
of
incongruity
an artifact
constructed
from
fictions of youth
summer and salary
time is solid
rain hangs
in the air
everything that is
is as blind as the rain
_______________________
See Brannen in AlteredScale.com 1 and AlteredScale.com 2.
Jonathan
Brannen is the
author of twelve volumes of poetry and five books of visual literature. His
most recent collections are this is visual poetry (this is
visual poetry chapbooks, Kingston PA, 2010), a sequence of full color word art,Mona
Lisa (Avantacular Press, 2010), a sequence of visual poems he created
combining computer constructed images and photocopying between 1975 and 1982,
and Deaccessioned Landscapes, a collection of technically
innovative sonnets (Chax Press, Tucson, AZ, 2005). His poetry and fiction have
been anthologized in five countries on three continents and translated into two
languages. He grew up in Florida and currently resides in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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