Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Spectrum by Susan Lewis


birdsong
            or stressed hinge,
                        sigh of angels.

sprinkle of bright hairs
            (notes igniting the curved ear)

sprinkle of raindrops starring light.
            slow fluid seeping,
                        (lost potential)

mineral tint of breath,
mouth fruit waiting for the crush,

throat willing to hold too much,
nerves set to suffer for their pleasure.

            wind whispering orbit,
            wind urging wide relation;

the bodied mind lost
the bodied mind hungry

            (no excuse)

something demand
                        (lost gaze)

in a blink                     or any guise

the germ in the fluid blind as any bud
                                    pointing to its future

(no wrest for the wary).         

            say yes to sequitation,
            say yes to the strange pain—

—moment of sacrifice,
                        font of artifice
                                    (inhibition given over)

                                    give over

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Besides my work as an editor at Madhatters' Review, I'm the author of “How To Be Another” (Cervena Barva Press, forthcoming, 2013), "At Times Your Lines" (Argotist e-Books, 2012), "Some Assembly Required" (Dancing Girl Press, 2011), “Commodity Fetishism,” winner of the 2009 Cervena Barva Press Chapbook Award, & “Animal Husbandry” (Finishing Line Press, 2008). My work has appeared in many many venues, including Berkeley Poetry Review, Boog City,  Cimarron Review, Cross Connect, The Dirty Goat, Eclipse, Fact-Simile, Fast Forward, Fourteen Hills,  Fugue, The Journal, Kitchen Sink, Lilies and Cannonballs Review, Lungfull, Monday Night, The New Orleans Review, Ninth Letter, Other Rooms, The Otherstream Anthology,  Pool, Phoebe, Raritan, Seneca Review, Snow Monkey, So To Speak, Sycamore Review, Verse (online), & Verse Daily. My collaborations with composer Jonathan Golove have been recorded & widely performed & my collaborations with artist Melissa Stern have been exhibited in New York City & Seattle. My website is www.susanlewis.net.

                                  

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