POETRY – 5 Poems by Marcia Arrieta

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priority landscape— a woman creating
within the pages of a manuscript—
Bilbao to Los Angeles & back again.

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the convent is a sanctuary.  candles lit.
the voyage is a boat across the canyon.
we re-establish the river.  we design the art gallery.

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within the desk there are a thousand cranes or maybe drawings.
the globe spins.  a plane flies overhead.  somewhere by the sea
a bird stands on a volume of poetry & looks beyond the sky.

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we climb
the castle walls

the collage is a bird

configurations force us
to imagine

we live in a forest

increments of torn paper resist

we sleep in the border
of revolution

the mail continues to be
delivered

blue beads on a wrist

books & numbers
& intervals

the collage is a portal

blue bird in nest

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the path to the moon

contemporary on canvas ancient drawings snow falls in the forest
we are warm in the cave ambiguous the seasons of the intellect
between geometry & black holes what will you wear today?
molecules & windstorms    to remain calm like the oak
the poem a drawing a miracle abstract sun in spring

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island the spring

island the idea of spring manifold roads deserts disconnected the paths are crosscurrents are the wings & spirals inside the silence unwinding vernacular fire & stone perhaps it was all a dream alone in the surfaces/forms i attempt to understand when the letters fall off words & the birds disappear in snow

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imagine

the present
with words/worlds/wonder

bravery as narrative
narrative as romanticism

to understand Jeffers’
“Mysticism of stone”

resource
a white index card

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the poem in
a crevice

casual
unmasked