[New-Poetry] "Reconstructive Landscapes"

[Anny Ballardini]

On the verge of the new day, see tomorrow, I think this is an excellent 
poem,
Anny

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Halvard Johnson" <halvard at earthlink.net>
To: "New-Poetry New-Poetry" <new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 11:39 PM
Subject: [New-Poetry] "Reconstructive Landscapes"


>
> 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
>
> Halvard Johnson
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