Matina L. Stamatakis
[From Moments: Movements: & Vapor]
Like it sliver back the backlash. Tokens of yowling in the eyes. Many sun-lit your
luminous. Many plays the salt. [Him] spiriting away like a pallid gypsy. Books on Greece
& the moon. What happens in flesh supposing soil has been sifted. A far Gauguin we
chime. From the reconstructed rushes of you. Thrusts you. Spins you on its rotorous
cuff. As bring. We
back the gather.
[Were Ethos not Candelabra]
But a bathed-in flicker full of undressing. Or comfort devils in our blue. And we. But
were stars blossoming metallic pentacles. & talismans such. Would we white-sheeted &
pray.
Beautiful things into them [?]
[No/& Birds]
Not to calmness. No sketch we can't. In dance we tongues rescue poem. In dance we
pirouette the means. & dream or have dreamt. Or have been. Rather by accident. &
spill out thicker music. No. Take not calmly the grouse. Or you can't in the gut deliver
violence. I've palms scattered in the brush. Toes here do not matter. No/ & then.
wouldn't touch what happens to frayed edges. Or what. The misdirection of waving
wheat is unbearable. I reckon. Certain of my body to this.
[Reawakening & on the Verge of Gasp]
Perhaps this moment orgasm rife with. & wet. Where burst hymen flesh
with. Purple-rooted & shudder. What with gristle & nothing honey yet. My
first animal soul's eternal. Let's not forget not this. Troubles me. & comes learning
absence as
the Lord in every wound.
[The Obscure Designed as Exquisite Tapestries]
-I am writing these lines after twelve days
and twelve nights without sleep
-Cocteau
[What] is ravaged & awakened. As such. Turning up wing-beat & urgency. & thereness
among us carcass tapestries bathed with. & etch the silky vacuum of our kiss. These
weathered architects of the muscles know. The merest trace of gloss slips bone between
us. Even the soul withholds something apocalyptical. This could demolish the precipice
just. Source the burning.
Beyond periphery.
[After Ecstasy]
& she reckons it. Lips like lizard lips. Or aching in the desert's spent-&-sifted sand.
Drown salt & wild-eyed. Survival epiphanies laced with. Knowing parch. She knows.
Embrace without arms. She expects the obliterated pavement [& reckons it] cold &
shallow. & she. Her premonitions. As an earth-haunted face. Her hair nettles & blisters
full of Aztec blood.
Need of atl.
Author's statement:
The process of which by form The fragmentary slivers of incomplete thought to complete a thought. Each fragment works by itself, or in a group of fragments to complete the whole thought. And yet there is a hint of what is unsaid. Also a hint of what could be if one rearranged the lines, took out pauses, took out the spaces between. What is there to be found? I ask myself this question when I begin to write, and when I have completed the poem. What is there to gain from the fractal? Riddles layered upon riddles, upon riddles. Matina L. Stamatakis currently resides in upstate New York. She is the author EoS (Oystercatcher Press, 2010), Metempsychose (Ypolita Press, 2009), and ek-ae: a journey into ekphrastic poetry (Dusie, 2007).
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