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Issue 1                Featured Poet: Stephen Ellis                   December 2003      ©TheRepublicofCalifornia.com

 

 

 

About Current Issue: New writing from Stephen Ellis' Opulence; poems by kari edwards; poems by Jim McCrary; poems by Steve Tills; poems by Brent Bechtel; poems by Catherine Daly; poems by Chris Murray; poems by Layne Russell.
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kari edwards

 

five Poems


maybe a tree is too perfect
             
(from iduna, O Books, 2003)


(act 1) k ten times ,, and {me} > > > > > 4-one of those special
lead  pipe    little  walks  . . .  a paused````````````````` then  some dissertation  arms reached out.’

       -‘ahoy! ahoy! !’

       - `But I’ve invented a different kind of . . . .?’


a moment off stage, a fat greasy occasion, every dot matrixed in personalized rats traversing the holy crossed origin, attempting a dreamy indeterminate hum of memory, from one pole to the
next.

      “I tried to say . . .
             and paused from its deadly brink.”

days passed -- not doing human voices! there stretched on a time
rag in my prison vain, a reaching phrase that grew a deadly brink, hidden in one of those crimson gauges. Low > > > > >lying in
definite  order......it appeared  to  balance  properly,  like  water
through the heather bright.  I drew up what fate I had cooked>>>
> > > >addressed  it  to  a  force  other  than  myself  to  be  sure. spasmodically  let  k  take  ten  times  and  hide  it  in  an  unknown hiding-place: k forced me to  a  wakening period.

      -‘yes, I saw time, and struggled violently -- then Like water through  the  woods,  I  went  on  holding  the  phrase:  I  might  be grasping  the  dungeon  in  other  things.  though,  I  do  not  know, maybe a tree too, is too perfect.’

              -’check mate!’
fin.


give back the number three

looking over


                          more out of
the vision thing


delicate in an uncommon good



either in the direction of

or step of


carnivorous familiarity



moments
transcribed in events


open to a question
grace without comma


blind sided by consistency

where we are all given

the number three

 

 

 

        
     

 

 

 

 

 

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