tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31472892516140572102024-03-12T17:06:41.673-07:00Hybrids~poetry~art~movies~music~otherMatina L. Stamatakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811535787822676984noreply@blogger.comBlogger300125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147289251614057210.post-8758313759055920702020-09-27T07:44:00.005-07:002020-09-27T07:51:45.582-07:00cœur<p> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are thinking “tucked under sheets” the world creeps up to a sudden chin-- </span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-321a6625-7fff-3823-ca54-c81edcba81b5"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">somber hearts sleep in temples of flesh</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Beating through the telephone wires/ </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">bleeds in whatever direction</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the thin, platelet suns of ourselves </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> call the transfusionist for new blood--</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">call anyone who will gather a listen </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to mystical arrays of whatever love is siphoned</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> through the intricate tubes of an arm</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I’m howling--- then I’m over it</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m colder than a tomb in some Gothic romance novel ------ </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> my bed is engulfed</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in musky currents of sweat and she is dying like a poet dies</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with her head full of minute circuitry </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and words beginning with the letter C</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Matina L. Stamatakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811535787822676984noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147289251614057210.post-52235298668283170872019-04-14T08:10:00.002-07:002019-04-21T04:58:02.890-07:00[No] Plath<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1962</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A similar species furnishes space</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> Everybody glances wantingly at the gorgeous girl’s knees</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> To music; thieving boys, human longing rose </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">up just past the knees how much is discernible? How much</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">1964 [it is still]</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> All I think about is obliterating the bay,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">any bay, waving poems and bellowing -</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">---- where God</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> [we become photos of her most unphotogenic moments]</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Ariel likes a landscape where everyone is lost and clinging </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">to their neuroses ----- thighs sore with necrosis</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">my plastic bag obscenities smothering your jollies</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Ariel enjoys talk of planets in retrograde, women coming late</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">or not coming at all succulents in their late withering states,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> once healthy children bursting with consumption</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> ----to Ariel, their suffering is like an inaccessible breast </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">she longs for the painful music within it</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">1965</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Medusa stopped him dead, so why can’t I? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">This poem fits like a glove, the old cliche </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> I depart where my line ends; I am not endless</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">guttered and abandoned ----- h</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">e did things I would have laughed at</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> had I worn another skin</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> little tremors around the mouth</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">[ </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> it is a thousand degrees</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> where my heart rests </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Ariel enjoys the dense fog of wonder</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">[another] 1965</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> Real men fuck with indifference</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">pound muscles, broadly</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> I see enough to know what is, is</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">but don’t quote me ----- </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> the gloss is obscene</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> [ where one comes scourged and sweet on the gums,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> as unforgivable as God or bad sex ]</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">----- a little bloodiness left on the hands</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the ruts are extra dangerous, shows skin-moves,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">sin after poems ---- /</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">doctor, I rubbed it until it slid</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">leaving jagged pieces of myself</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">here is the bad blood [ of a pulverized flower</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> ----decoys of us apparently broken ]</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">///the untouched area between coccyx and navel///</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Ariel doubts the lover who whispers in her ear</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">takes her hand as if she is suddenly stillborn</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">pink and blue around the corners ----- </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> he likes to say she is thinner than heroin</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> shooting through the veins</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> Ariel doubts this, too</span></div>
Matina L. Stamatakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811535787822676984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147289251614057210.post-22002626290197817582018-02-18T11:17:00.002-08:002018-02-18T11:18:21.710-08:00*<br />
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<span style="font-family: "bahnschrift light" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">There’s porn in your raw curves, the mere
renderings of loose teeth, <br />all double entendres </span><span style="font-family: "bahnschrift light" , sans-serif;">pooling at the crease of your cunt. Mother, <br />it’s
not getting any tighter these days, the gut is </span><span style="font-family: "bahnschrift light" , sans-serif;">strained <br />leaflets of papyri & suffer---&</span><span style="font-family: "bahnschrift light" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "bahnschrift light" , sans-serif;">you’re a wild gal <br />with your suggestively raunchy
glance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bahnschrift light" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">How many of you are you nakedly? How many of you<br />from the gutters emerge like a silk-</span><span style="font-family: "bahnschrift light" , sans-serif;">drenched pearl <br />from a beggar’s mouth? He’s
seafaring, gone <br />every six months, but still </span><span style="font-family: "bahnschrift light" , sans-serif;">manages to stare back <br />at you with fishy eyes. Loose
slickers & a bit of scurvy on the lips.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bahnschrift light" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">You’re a little bit of a rash if you know it. Good
for you, or bad <br />depending on the weather. </span><span style="font-family: "bahnschrift light" , sans-serif;">Nothing can reshape your mouth <br />to do better than a
noose—all up in it, tight-lipped.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bahnschrift light" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Dew is a mercy of the morning! Scarlet wet with blazing
intentions.<br /> A buxom bold. A hold of </span><span style="font-family: "bahnschrift light" , sans-serif;">ecstatic tongues—you come scourged <br />& sweet on
the gums. I fashion you into my skin like a salve </span><span style="font-family: "bahnschrift light" , sans-serif;">as you divulge <br />the deepest secrets, claim the
locusts swallowed <br />your lover’s bones as you fished </span><span style="font-family: "bahnschrift light" , sans-serif;">your rippled face out of a river. <br />You say you were
l’inconnue de la Seine in your past life. <br />A </span><span style="font-family: "bahnschrift light" , sans-serif;">jawbone the shape of a cliff, as you waited for Him
<br />to harness your endless body.</span></div>
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<br />Matina L. Stamatakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811535787822676984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147289251614057210.post-35582295555750166032017-11-25T10:46:00.000-08:002017-11-25T10:46:28.388-08:00Portrait of a Gemini (analog collage)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Matina L. Stamatakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811535787822676984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147289251614057210.post-48449478362099026802017-03-05T06:17:00.000-08:002017-03-05T06:30:10.415-08:00Ex-Voto<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Call it
“flesh vessel”, oil forming<br />
rings around the stomach<br />
of her papoose, a rind of thick skin<br />
heaven knows it holds together so<br />
what mouth knows to be soft<br />
fruit, a tang, fur-lined olive <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">a fistful<br />
of holly in a sea of moths<br />
─the exact moment light bends<br />
into phosphor & slow decay<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">I think She, or Radiant Hummingbird<br />
her intense sun, prays to thickets<br />
of pulse trapped in the blood<br />
of Mayan gods—she stretches <br />
her breasts to meet the tongue<br />
earth shaking between the knees<br />
<br />
Call it “honey temper”, simmering<br />
in her saliva, ointment or salve for<br />
mosquitoes—all utterances slick<br />
with hum her vulvae spreading<br />
to receive flowers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Matina L. Stamatakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811535787822676984noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147289251614057210.post-2496014992065440332016-11-20T08:03:00.001-08:002016-11-20T08:03:33.301-08:00FAULT LINES<div align="left" class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: "Yu Gothic","sans-serif";">Don't bring to me water when I am parched/ nor milk
to my lips<br />
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to make these lips more desirable/ what stirs the vocabulary<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Yu Gothic","sans-serif";">dust leaves behind?/ or venous geography of our air sacs/ or<br />
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I want this poem to be cut-up and stitched into something taxidermists would be
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organ, little bunny. Long for no survivors. <br />
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Selected Poems 2000-2015<br />
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Selected Poems 2000-2015, by William Allegrezza, is a compilation of poems from
various past works. From the beginning, one encounters lingo--an onslaught of
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the experimentation and imagery increases. Letters jump out on the page,
emboldened. Words dance atop other words and collide. Yet these words are not
just randomly placed. Allegrezza is trained in the amalgamation of sense and
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of Allegrezza's finest works. Each poem teeters on the edge of profundity and
poignancy. Step Below challenges and pulls forth, from the shadows, ghosts of
vision and great depth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I am very excited to announce four poems have been published in Horse Less Review. These poems are a part of my full-length work-in-progress, A Late Sketch of Final Doves.<br />
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<a href="http://horselesspress.org/horse-less-review/hlr-winter-201516/four-poems-by-matina-stamatakis/"><span style="font-size: large;">Horse Less Review</span></a>Matina L. Stamatakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811535787822676984noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147289251614057210.post-88694567474174200842016-03-09T04:44:00.001-08:002016-03-09T04:44:53.310-08:00Sprung PoemsNew publication--three poems at <a href="http://sprungpoems.com/category/poetry/">Sprung Poetry</a><br />
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we are now more than content<br />and less than hasty for expeditions<br /><br />we are whole continents of flesh<br />basking on fulfillments unseen<br />with new eyes<br />
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we, wild, emboldened and untamed<br />nudes, teeth in the head of moans<br />swelling our stomachs with fruits<br />of conviction<br />
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we force our bodies between<br />terra firma and firmament<br />the I-must-appear-weightless-<br />in-this-sash----<br />
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must entertain, or be entertained,<br />in the whites of our eyes and dance...<br />oh dance our smiles 'cross<br />uncharted planetsMatina L. Stamatakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811535787822676984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147289251614057210.post-47544503951322310242015-11-18T17:06:00.001-08:002015-11-18T17:06:19.783-08:00To Spite the Face<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />touch the naked that surrounds it--<br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> perhaps it is
under the skirts<br />
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a frenzied probe<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />& how the silhouette of a body<br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />of uncharted landscapes, we won't wander<br />
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unless the word "traverse" or "dance" or...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">fabulous the pirouetted lips twist<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">& we are, for
a moment,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />reminded of lipstick<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;"><br /> or Paris. </span>Matina L. Stamatakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811535787822676984noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147289251614057210.post-46823836468911407382015-02-04T16:47:00.004-08:002015-02-04T16:48:10.103-08:00New work up at <br />
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<a href="http://halvard-johnson.blogspot.com/2015/02/matina-l-stamatakis.html"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>TRUCK</b></span></a></div>
Matina L. Stamatakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811535787822676984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147289251614057210.post-73438148169449690372014-09-13T09:55:00.002-07:002014-09-13T09:55:50.402-07:00Triptych<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Matina L. Stamatakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811535787822676984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147289251614057210.post-29633861620774259152014-08-01T04:02:00.001-07:002014-08-01T04:02:31.188-07:00Sugar Mule<br />
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Here's some new work of mine up at <a href="http://www.sugarmule.com/47flash.htm">Sugar Mule</a>, along with Eileen Tabios, Vernon Frazer, Heller Levinson, and many more talented writers.<br />
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Matina L. Stamatakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811535787822676984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147289251614057210.post-36497251263452395602014-07-14T17:00:00.002-07:002014-07-14T17:00:44.441-07:00N/A<br />
Here's some new work of mine up at <br />
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<a href="http://nalitjournal.wordpress.com/"><span style="font-size: x-large;">N/A</span></a></div>
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(<em>drawing by Francois Luong</em>)Matina L. Stamatakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811535787822676984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147289251614057210.post-67327377366706635672014-07-11T17:45:00.000-07:002014-07-11T17:45:05.951-07:00Salmon Head<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Whiff & purges this salt<br />
becoming a late pink<br />
or void having depth<br />
of a soft blue<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>──<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from where<br />
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to peel from this waxen bed<br />
all scales have turned upward<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>& away<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">this is God's death<br />
& breathing<br />
is not likely.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Matina L. Stamatakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811535787822676984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147289251614057210.post-12247117022872905082014-06-03T04:02:00.001-07:002014-06-03T04:02:34.029-07:00Barzakh<br />
Here is a new collaborative poem up at Barzakh:<br />
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<a href="http://barzakh.net/site/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/KJPGarcia-Barzakh-Poetry-1.pdf">Faded (with Kenyatta Jean-Paul Garcia)</a><br />
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Matina L. Stamatakishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811535787822676984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147289251614057210.post-42254399657699731552014-05-24T04:52:00.000-07:002014-05-24T04:52:01.359-07:00Yellow Sutra<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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