Tag: abstract

• Notes for a Poet of Many Names

  Abstractions of the self (best read on desktop). After Wallace Stevens, Robert Hayden, and others. For all who call me by my names.

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  June 16, 2024

  abstract, character, Chinese, concrete poetry, identity, language, names, poet, poetics, Poetry, self

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• Five Poems

  At Highland Park.
  
  1.
  I ask for an iced tea
  and she fills a glass
  
  with ten (eight?) ounces
  of water the color
  of a seedy pomegranate's
  
  bloody flesh, pours 
  it all over eight (ten?)
  cubes of glassy ice.
  
  "Here you go," she says
  as her eyes meet mine
  for just long enough
  
  to give pause: but I
  was already here.

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  May 29, 2024

  abstract, bedroom, dog, free verse, glass, iced tea, image, modernism, Poetry, pomegranate

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