We are all possessed
by the impassiveness of things that drift by in the psychosis of our minds of streams that flow of winds that drift from the terrains of long ago winters reek of wrongs summers seek the solace of storms in the heart of all these things we are all possessed by the impassiveness of broken strings. © Jaspreet Mann
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“It’s necessary to write terrible lines, awful drafts, half-hearted poems. Write ten in a row if needed. Throw pencils, get mad, take a walk. Swear off poetry, read a chapter of a post-apocalyptic novel, wash the dishes. Feel better? Back to writing. Repeat as necessary.”
—Karen Skolfield I eat in grandmother's crystal plates
specially imported from France in 1935 since then, they have been the legacy of love, felicity of abundance, marvellously transparent, they are bewildered by the splash of curry the hot spice flaring their foreign belly bursting into a secret flame of sunrise I stroke their edges tracing years that went by years bereft of prayers, years bereft of light the silence hidden in their contours is compassionate words are lances hanging on the edge of silver knives I eat in grandmother's crystal plates specially imported from France in 1935 and call myself an eternal pilgrim of life. Jaspreet Mann They think of those people who take away their jobs, who speak a language they cannot understand, who live in tenements and send their money home, who eat dogs and rats and spend their nights alone in a haze of sweet smoke, and they think of his words, And no matter what happens,_ the Chinese must go!_ Poem and Pic Courtesy: The New Yorker
Link: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-lost-poetry-of-the-angel-island-detention-center I will tell you about it some time, when the time is right (it is never right)
I have thought of Joni Mitchell, how she tells me to get back to my 'garden' my garden, the long stretch of emptiness, I left long ago among the clouds beckons me with words, with lost notes I can't recall anymore, the sound of fire fresh in my bones, I can't recollect how rivers turned bloody in the wine glass or how cutlery took the form of an Acheulean axe shaped with the hurt of distress my heart is the cleaving of summer buried inside floorboards that reek of rust people talk of spring, the fragrance of wild roses, in a country that is not my own I look for summer in basements with sunshine starved in the trauma of stone depression has synonyms, one sinks in the nightmares of their facelessness a moment of recklessness, an hour of grotesque, a day entangled in duress the sky is a catacomb of macabre stars, the earth is a carcanet of endless wars we look for people, people look for us, in hurricanes of nebulous horrors the world collapses in an eclipse of unspoken thoughts, trapped behind doors. ~jm |
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