[New-Poetry] "Reconstructive Landscapes"

[Halvard Johnson]

Reconstructive Landscapes

1.
Guest aestheticians pell-mell into our newly enfranchised
options, minding their manners. Their full-grown sensibilities

comprise the grammatical codes of early 21st-century thought
more than is often recognized. Malleable injunctions

and freshness of topic are their touchstones. So many butterfly
wings, so little time. More real than snow and lilies,

they pounce when the door to the dining-room opens.
Successful modifications arise when they are most needed.

2.
Humble particulars reflect usual fondness for dream language,
its cubes and prisms. Undaunted by classical physics,

they invent their own contexts, mercurial disorders leading
them quickly on from one thing to the next.

Dimming the universal, they offer convincing evidence of
quotidian spontaneity, eschewing delusionary metaphor.

The world and its secrets rise from their window-boxes
obscuring both inner and outer strains of thought.

3.
Here now, our most devout stipulations: that something
must come of it all, that we find uses for everything,

but innovative nomenclature brings us not one iota
of true satisfaction. More real than shadow,

we swarm in the pool, though no lifeguard was present.
Lyrical Intensity joins us for dinner, her methods

on view for all to behold. Efficacious unsettlings,
we do really love them. Isn't that so?



Hal

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