Poetry
Three
inlet
after Etel Adnan
at Galerie Lelong
New York, NY
April 10, 2015
tender plaid city
creepy skyline segment over
hawks circle puppy prey
some nature still intact
the and of improv
carbon-marked
blaze rock
conductor gives a go-ahead
they’ll revise history
say it wasn’t our fault
that we were on a comet
the whole time
broken alphabet
$ global variable spangles unapologetic pets or meat ? pageantry rates royal and real share an etymology it is rare for rules to be reversed trattoire cycle of hahaha.com & smoking work ethic an archaic end to means warehouse workers off the clock pat down unpaid surveillance a phoneme children schooled in danger walls rhyme with rebate tofu-dreg a grapheme privatized testimony protected by criminals inquiry meet noise gate PROM stands for Programmable Read-Only Memories clarity stumbles to light compass the daemons to the right side of history offshore nearshore spreadsheet split ghost a global host
they dwelled in a meadow of flowers && weeds
daughter of the river in a record of mistakes
siren
a contranym
signifies
to both seduce & drive aside
it was a mistake
that pneumatic inventions
in music & alert
were named for a nymph
she did sing
but not under water
it would be more accurate
to call the alarm
on top of an ambulance
a mermaid
but a loud subset of us
spread the twisted myth
& a story without facts
within a story without facts
gave us definition
reason-deprived foragers
refuse to leave
& starve to death
how long
must misinformation persist
until it’s no longer wrong
lethargy is a symptom
of corruption
demise
grand jury decides
police
means
do as we say
not as we do
lawless gangs of thugs
discounted & discarded
evidence
does not absolve guilt
thumbed scale
tank hearts
Contributor
Carol MirakoveCAROL MIRAKOVE is the author of Muriel's House, Mediated, and Occupied. She lives in Brooklyn where she is writing a manuscript titled, for an exhibit called democracy there are a lot of guns.
