#9
negative nightingales left roses to lose bloom
looked for nectar elsewhere
- or died
- doesn’t matter
song stayed so on the inside
not even mirrors could hear it.
*
song is far too frail
notes fall / voices tend
to the downward
strings and skins loosen / break.
*
dawn calls for the sigh
this release = enough
= puff of frost in winter
- an icon
of another attempt.
*
bridgemakers pray for gaps –
philosophers
likewise
and wizening
to the use of holes –
pauses,
lapse
upon these, the future is built.
*
assimilation - confluence
*
degradation
in
glut
of
forgetfulness
*
lost to conversation, criticism and
accoutrement.
Kenning (FKA Kenyatta) Jean-Paul García is the author of the notvel OF (What Place Meant), They Say (West Vine Press) and several lyrical speculative ebooks such as ROBOT: the Waste Land Reimaged. Xe is a diarist and performer living in Albany, NY. Xe has degrees in English and linguistics but has spent xyr adult life doing blue collar work. For a dozen years xe worked in restaurants doing everything from dishes to managing. These days, xe is a maintenance worker in a massive two-story box store. Xe has been doing the graveyard shift for 11 years now so writing is the day job but not the job that's called xyr "real job." In addition, xe posts way too much foolishness on social media and tries to go to lots of conferences around the country preferably by train. Xe is also an editor at Rigorous.