Selected Poems



     

Mary Kasimor






bruise fire



                         prometheus whispers      
                                     FLUTES
sees no future        (gutted 
by vultures)
holds the fire in leaden BowlS 

bodies following death
         lead to Frankenstein
 
            one thumb
opposable 
ONE hand          
                  stitched to the wheel
pushing itself         past the water
pushing it    
                                 self through ASHES 
cooking the fire         becomes human flesh

tiny SEeds in production birth
drink MILK and oxygen
the roses bruise fire           brood
                      blood falls

out of Prometheus         a BLUE dollar 
                    a red fire       detaches 
        cold blue seeds 
in suspense
                   fire treed Badlands 
                  bad heart     seed       past dark halls
freed feet          wisps NORTH 

concrete play           land REincarnates 
promeTHEUS
                     body clenches boundaries 
is so far        and wide
                                                     floats fire       
you obsess
body's original intellect reaches
                                   (shallow phase)
 
ON fire faces faith 
               random sorrow gathers 
                     nomadic acres
bolted down (prometheus' test)
                laced down bondage 
                                             industrial life 

earth ashes         dark OXygen 
                       frozen hearted gods
                                                at play throw RAIN
 
                            fictions of fire 
prometheus 
WHO is nameless
                   no stone Holds fire 
spider cornered in    ephemeral       smoke 





broken slant box



peace completes         slant 
lip glossy          vintage skirt blows transparent 
         in exact fields     reeds imitating ducks 
                       gray hills:    age.
artist slaves breaking  open
                            indifference
                     glassy eggs senseless 
erasure scandals       perfect emptiness
        accidentally screwed.
                       circuits sigh  
bean 
hybrid box         in cardboard 
I share regrets:
              multi-
celled howls.
ariel's cup floats
seagulls out back. 
                  rain smoothly shows up
I love umbrellas          and poem bowls 
different statements fill 
                     bureaucratic blanks
                         my version 
of data overlaps. 
                                water.
                    blue skeins motivate
sheep grinding and peas
fix the view. 
the balm itches 
you are 100 miles away 
                I'm handling the cups
                   (they are
 breaking).





parchment girl



all night I just speak to myself      oh she said      I left you behind
I left you on the doorstep     on an acre          eating glass peaches
and I fell in love   with shadows detaching    from stems a seed  in 
a pumpkin oh    wholly am I      you balanced latin molecules from 
a book   life did this to me alone   this is another version that never 
happens because      I am not you        only one remembered from 
childhood    I never slept or died    sharp edges felt right      a chair 
cast into a hole     (in a house that I couldn't remove)      I burned it 
down     I sat in a tree     I wanted to be blue        but I was a carnival 
compiling a list      of what they heard        dead light In martys' cries 
I rarely sleep       I wander the house     takings pills      divided into 
compartments     those are the details in praying        (saving grace) 
my fingerprints     there was never enough to know      I remember it 
and it doesn't change        the little parchment girl stands     alone        
hollow eyed        next to her family           cautiously angry she plays 
the piano       hands bound in gauze              throwing her heart out            
the notes are clean        its  industrial future erases      the present    
I am inflating its purpose   but it doesn't understand      detachment
 a normal product         of trees                   it sits nervously infected





godot's boredom



nature perspective over there        
                      and then
the growing universe 
                    when I disappear/
a light intelligence captured irony
sunsets         and fountains 
outdoor air 
cute raccoons and bears de-clawed 
the black hole theater plays 
                 godot's boredom
the infection assures life 
                  brain from spit 
I remember the indigo fly       's wing 
     disappearing snow 
I touched air         oil fire      /devious brain
the trees hang
                        underwear's body
disembodied tricksters/        paid for
by god              as their spy
                sun waits for oxygen and faith
amoeba making motion
                  different  pain
the moon blows 
out dark fractions
doors open          /doors close
this is     another        creation myth