tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-122518992024-03-14T03:19:09.414-07:00peter ciccarielloPeter Ciccariellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064142385081707524noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12251899.post-1812347198887625392014-09-29T23:37:00.001-07:002014-09-29T23:37:32.563-07:00<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<i>Unfamiliar angles</i></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "AGaramond","serif";">Lying on the
sand, sideways I see pipers and gulls screeching, picking at the congregation
on the edge of the tide. </span>Closing<span style="font-family: "AGaramond","serif";">
one eye then the other, watching the horizon jump back and forth. Children
search for stone crabs on the rock jetty. Time, arrow or not, hangs suspended
languid and indolent. The pull of the tide the syrupy smell of kelp and</span><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Laver</span></b><span style="font-family: "AGaramond","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">. </span><span style="font-family: "AGaramond","serif";">Why do objects appear to become smaller
as they move farther away? You seemed so tiny as if the world were about to
swallow you up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With my head on the sand,
looking up, you were all legs, your head blotted out the sun, the bright light
forming a crown of golden rays. You were the closest you have ever been to a
goddess. The ocean, such a temperamental god, I never believed it was a woman.
So permeated with violence. Wicked. Its stillness is a mirror, always to our
own minds, as the white clouds are swallowed by the breaking surf. One gull
with a broken leg limped to the edge stabbing for fat, transparent sand bugs.
Dragging its useless leg, trying to avoid the others. The ocean is such an
unreliable god, swallowing up things that it doesn’t care for and even those
things that it holds so dear to its heart. And it pulls, how it pulls!
Something that is right next to you becomes smaller and less significant and harder
to see until it isn’t there any longer. Items that are lost appear
unexpectedly. People cast away parts of themselves inadvertently. We think of <i>context</i>.
We think of matter emitting energy as light waves. We </span>relate to the
amount of <i>uncertainty</i> about an event associated with a given
probability. You are a probability that hovers above me, from this angle the
ocean is still and inanimate, composed, benign, and compassionate.</div>
Peter Ciccariellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064142385081707524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12251899.post-45119513762105675842014-03-24T08:35:00.001-07:002014-03-24T08:35:59.204-07:00Sleeping muse after Brancusi, with commentary<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEUQGqpDUNfUvZdQwKapki_8j1Q_d-zkxmsGC25OA-Ek2v-O8V4maiLP2itLHRPHfT0btS6JaPD-lB3W__fUuSSTRCTjrGdhe7NkJYZbLPC0EWbcK_Yk9UU7-dwEkp-T7OHUSNOg/s640/blogger-image--1722216065.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEUQGqpDUNfUvZdQwKapki_8j1Q_d-zkxmsGC25OA-Ek2v-O8V4maiLP2itLHRPHfT0btS6JaPD-lB3W__fUuSSTRCTjrGdhe7NkJYZbLPC0EWbcK_Yk9UU7-dwEkp-T7OHUSNOg/s640/blogger-image--1722216065.jpg"></a></div>Peter Ciccariellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064142385081707524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12251899.post-72516994825905867092014-03-09T07:24:00.001-07:002014-03-09T07:28:19.252-07:00<h2 style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“People brutalise everything” (Thomas Bernhard)</span></h2><span class="author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">BY BIBLIOKLEPT</span><div class="entry" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><blockquote style="margin: 15px 30px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; min-height: 30px; background-image: url(http://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/under-the-influence/images/quote.png);"><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">People brutalise everything. They get up noisily, go about noisily all day, and go to bed noisily. And they constantly talk far too noisily. They are so taken up with themselves that they don’t notice the distress they constantly cause to others, to those who are sick. Everything they do, everything they say causes distress to people like us. And in this way they force anyone who is sick more and more into the background until he’s no longer noticed. And the sick person withdraws into his background. But every life, every existence, belongs to one person and one person only, and no one else has the right to force this life and this existence to one side, to force it out of the way, to force it out of existence. We’ll go by ourselves, as we have the right to do. That’s part of the natural course.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">From Thomas Bernhard’s novel <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Concrete</em>.</span></p><div><br></div><div class="wpcnt" style="line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="wpa" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; overflow: hidden; display: inline-block; max-width: 100%;"></div></div></div>Peter Ciccariellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064142385081707524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12251899.post-37177459864777880262013-10-28T20:10:00.002-07:002013-10-28T20:10:15.042-07:00Sorting forksSorting forks
It's not
Like I don't have a million things to do .
Who bought all of these?
Who will ever use them?
I think I sprained my shoulder, no...
It's the collar bone.
They should have helped me with this,
it's unreasonable to ask, I am only one person!
One day I will live with no forks!
Bastards!Peter Ciccariellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064142385081707524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12251899.post-77712368275836775192013-10-21T09:16:00.002-07:002013-10-21T09:16:53.104-07:003 poems..................Pleased to have 3 new poems published on Nic Sebastian’s new “The Poetry Storehouse”. <a href="http://poetrystorehouse.com/2013/10/19/peter-ciccariello-poems/">http://poetrystorehouse.com/2013/10/19/peter-ciccariello-poems/</a>
Take a listen to Nic Sebastian’s audio recording of my poem “Today is your advocate”
Peter Ciccariellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064142385081707524noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12251899.post-30127921374462885352013-02-07T16:39:00.001-08:002013-10-21T10:13:16.930-07:00A MisreadA Misread by Peter Ciccariello - from the Whalesound archive read by Nic Sebastian <a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://whalesound.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/a-misread-by-peter-ciccariello/" dir="ltr" href="http://t.co/Npi6IDju" target="_blank" title="http://whalesound.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/a-misread-by-peter-ciccariello/"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="js-display-url">whalesound.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/a-m</span><span class="invisible">isread-by-peter-ciccariello/</span><span class="tco-ellipsis"><span class="invisible"> </span>…</span></a>Peter Ciccariellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064142385081707524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12251899.post-48757437886097967402012-02-18T18:05:00.000-08:002012-02-18T18:05:50.721-08:00Albert's Landing<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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sound of the water as it swirls about me,</span></div>
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water,</span></div>
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of hope, even as I struggle to accept these forces</span></div>
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surging life around me,</span></div>
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giving my back it's heat and hardness, yes,</span></div>
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ways,</span></div>
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will never come,</span></div>
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waiting</span></div>
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all of the world pounds and swells beneath him,</span></div>
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his name softly in its profound eternity.</span></div>
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<br /></div>Peter Ciccariellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064142385081707524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12251899.post-24277603119900111282012-02-04T09:03:00.000-08:002012-02-04T09:16:19.694-08:00Mud<div class="MsoPlainText">
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<span style="font-size: small;">The intertidal
smell of mussels opening and closing as the skin pulls back. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The black mud
speckled with piss clam tunnels. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Boys with flat sticks wiggling bare toes, a
jab and thrust, clams in the air.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> Jabbing and thrusting is what boys do, piss
clams flying through the air. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Fiddler crabs peering out sideways from their
hideouts. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The boys scurry sideways to mimic the crabs, throwing long ribbons of
seaweed at one another, in their hair, slapping their faces, flying though the
air. </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">There were girls
here the night before, girls and music. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The boys swirled through their faint,
sweet fog. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The scent opened something hidden. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The deep inside them mixed with
the fog and doors opened everywhere. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">There are not always enough locks or keys
to go around. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Some of the doors are closed forever. Some doors are hanging off
their hinges. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Someone said once that everything has been thought of.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The boys
think of these girls over and over again, they think of almost nothing else,
they dart here and there after fiddler crabs as the bright light beats down on
their bare skin and they think of girls. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">To stand on the water, to stand in a
boat in the water, the salt drying in white streaks on their skin, their skin
that longs for the girls hidden in the sweet, dank mud of desire before they
even know it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Before they even know it they are thinking of girls again and
again, even as they are covered in mud and seaweed and laughing sideways at
each other they are still jabbing and thrusting though the sweet, sweet fog
again and again and even, again.</span></div>
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<br /></div>Peter Ciccariellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064142385081707524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12251899.post-24451879157886648002011-07-14T19:28:00.001-07:002011-07-14T19:30:42.352-07:00Today is your advocate<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I
encouraged everyone to invest in you</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Long
ago we were a migratory phenomenon</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So in love in dark little simultaneous conferences <br />
And hot steaming bubbles of automobiles</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Thrilling
to far-flung places armed <br />
With metaphors for social responsibility</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We
were a phenomenon known as ‘immovable minutes’ </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">You
circulated five million stolen moments <br />
Capable of communing instantaneously </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">With
what we were soon to be</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I
miss you; you left so suddenly <br />
I still have all of your once-fringe issues</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Rammed
like a disease down the throat of your barometer</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It’s a universe unto its own, all right<br />
As I dreamed again you were dawning next to me </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“It’s
all about flow,” you said<br />
Announcing the delicate technology of your luminous hips </span></div>
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Peter Ciccariellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064142385081707524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12251899.post-10239404925752213622011-04-03T20:24:00.001-07:002011-04-03T20:24:44.321-07:00A C T I O N P O T E N T I A L<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">take this moment for example</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">open the gate the flood of doves frightening</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">us like frozen little children</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">as if there were no mothers in the world</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and I would ask, if I were there</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> how to stop this death by holding</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">it's bleeding head under the tap?</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">watching you again for any signs of life</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">or distracting aromas</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">binding your hands behind you with </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">trans-atlantic cables</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">[another sun comes up]</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">[another goose is cooked]</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">[another letter lingers]</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">[reaching back]</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">[further]</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">remember at that moment</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">don't get distracted</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">remember losing this moment</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">as if you lose your keys or your last breath</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">unlike any other </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">we could spread it out like jam across a thousand loaves of bread</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">but there is no way </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">you could make </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">this army of little children that we are</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">stop this apoptotic death</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">from penetrating</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the glassine skin of our own history</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></span>Peter Ciccariellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064142385081707524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12251899.post-78595013622511803212011-01-05T15:58:00.000-08:002011-01-05T15:58:48.107-08:00I am here<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am here</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Not quite a man then </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Stubble on the head neck<br />
Awkwardly shirt off sun towel beach world<br />
<br />
I am here years; then rain water on MacDougal Street</span> <span style="font-size: small;"><br />
Front of Café Wha<br />
Disintegrating newspapers sound from in/out<br />
Looking for your hand<br />
<br />
I am here uncorking a bottle of King’s wine</span> <span style="font-size: small;"><br />
Small hill, golf course birthday dream<br />
You are full with the roundness of spring flush<br />
<br />
And I am here again with Robert Frost’s walls</span> <span style="font-size: small;"><br />
The cowbirds are the only visitors<br />
Save a lone chipmunk lightening speed<br />
Having seen the shadow<br />
<br />
You away, always away, always always</span> <span style="font-size: small;"><br />
The yearning, the soul<br />
There is a kernel of everything<br />
Inside everything, inside every kernel there is everything</span></div>Peter Ciccariellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064142385081707524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12251899.post-40674961543913397942010-12-19T18:01:00.001-08:002010-12-19T18:01:26.204-08:00Drifting alone on Gardiner’s bayDrifting alone on Gardiner’s bay,<br />
No ship or neoprene raft between me and the crisp blue sea,<br />
Just quantum gravity and millions of gallons of sea water<br />
From as far away as Pretoria and Tierra Del Fuego, to make my fluid bed,<br />
Hands behind my head, floating like a champagne cork,<br />
My thoughts bubbling into the endless blue<br />
Above and below me.<br />
Salt on my lips, the sun making neon worms in the ripples.<br />
My Cubistic world, my instinctual nihilism, my habitual obsessions,<br />
Behind me and above me the swoosh/pause/swish/pause/swoosh<br />
Of a fish hawk’s wings, the whimper of a dark wet mouse<br />
Locked in powerful, unforgiving talons,<br />
This life goes on around me, as I learn to float alone,<br />
As I listen to my heart beat,<br />
As I listen to my thoughts drop across the ocean like milkweed puffs,<br />
Like water in water, sand upon sand,<br />
With only love making me different than this ocean,<br />
Than this warm sunlight, than this immeasurable, spinning world.Peter Ciccariellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064142385081707524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12251899.post-63688544571142786672010-12-05T20:38:00.001-08:002010-12-05T20:38:16.949-08:00We had a predilection for flying<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <br />
<h1><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">At least this moment, for at least this moment<br />
We had a predilection for flying, <br />
Sitting far back in seats 146b or 175c <br />
Next to the window, the back of the plane<br />
And if sometimes, passing over the marble steps of the palace <br />
or the hidden interior of our own secrecy or sometimes after barely clipping our abyss <br />
Of reluctant assimilation to reveal the mournful solitude of our dreaming<br />
We would wake again drunk with the wind and everything that was flying with us<br />
Over this dense black mirror of ocean everything that was supposed to be guarding us and <br />
Our practiced stumbling our flight out of the tunnel our reeling into<br />
The blinding light that we surged past now as if we were unaware again<br />
As if we had just thrown ourselves up into the air and reached our hands out to fly</span></h1><h1><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></h1>Peter Ciccariellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064142385081707524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12251899.post-78248141518617266292010-11-18T20:08:00.000-08:002010-11-18T20:08:30.769-08:00MAKING DEATH - MAKING LIFE<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">I know that you can’t always tell something is happening while it is happening, but afterwards, you probably remember what you should have done while it happened, but didn’t.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">He cracks the shell of the egg on the edge of the black iron pan, as the egg white hits the hot butter he hears a bright sizzling. Or did he hear the butter blistering first?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">- - - - -</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">I found out pretty quickly all I never wanted to know about making death suddenly early one morning right here in Providence on November 26, 1974, as I watched my son slide out of his mother's dark and baffling womb and into the tepid toweled hands of a rather robust nurse. The nurses and doctors didn't want me to be there, that much was clear. I was hastily summoned just minutes before, a green paper gown and paper shoe wraps were thrust at me and I was quickly ushered into the delivery room. My son had a name already. Oakley. We knew months ago that the child was a boy, after seeing it very clearly for ourselves on an ultrasound negative. Actually, we didn’t know, we didn’t want to know, we had two names picked out, one for a boy, and one for a girl. Oakley and Sally. It’s just that we knew he was a boy from the start.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">- - - - -</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Making death is like frying an egg once over lightly in a cast iron pan sizzling with butter.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">- - - - -</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Covered with mucous and bits of purple blood, and being held upside down by his ankles, all four of us waited for an unprecedented amount of time for him to say something. Finally after what seemed like a blizzard of swirling flakes, his mouth opened and an odd little child scream snickered out and lingered over the cars parked in the snow outside the hospital delivery room.<span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">- - - - -</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">It snowed the night my son was born; I took a photograph out of the bathroom window. The cars in the parking lot next door were cloaked in a cold, atmospheric, pallid virginity. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">- - - - -</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">I think the hospital delivery room was silver and had blue wallpaper with snowflakes. All of a sudden, I was alone with him and every one in the room disappeared. His eyes were the color of the room and I fell in love with him instantly.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">- - - - -</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Making death he turns over the egg, the yolk breaks, yellow lines snake across the pan.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">- - - - -</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">"Mike, get the car, we've got to get to the hospital. It’s time!"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">The car skittled a bit as we drove away from the curb. I remember the skoshing of the wipers and the roundness of the wheels. I remember counting telephone poles that we passed. My mouth was filled with snow falling and I was exhumed with an inexplicable yearning. The night became a single black cloud that appeared over and over again until there was darkness all around us. Three of us drove to the hospital but there was another person in the car with us. Listening. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">- - - - -</span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">I knew everything I needed to know about making life at 5:31 a.m. the morning of November 26, 1974. Oakley was a million shades of red and blue, shivering, as he made his way out from between his mother’s legs. The doctor pulled his head out first with large steel forceps, then, gently guided his shoulders out. The nurse wrapped him in a heat-foil lined blanket and handed him to me. I heard the pinging sound of the snow as it fell on the cars outside in the parking lot on 170 Courtland Street. I think it was very blue in the room, cold and blue and steel. I think the doctor was quite large and wore dark rimmed glasses. I remember I was wearing green cloth shoe covers and a green disposable gown. The room had snow falling in it, and silver clocks on several walls. The doctor turned him upside down and held him by the ankles until he cried out. Then he stuck a rubber bulb in his mouth to clear away the mucus. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><h2><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">MAKING LIFE</span></span></h2><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">1 part black seaweed</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">6 parts crystalline [Etymology: Middle English cristallin, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French, from Latin crystallinus, from Greek krystallinos, from krystallos </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Date: 15th century] </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">15 parts of tears from fallen angels</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">35 parts of distilled water from snow that fell on parked cars at 170 Courtland Street on November 26, 1974 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">17 parts of the struggling roots of plants that don't exist</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">3 parts of things you can't remember</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Follow the above instructions backwards and leave out all the ingredients.</span>Peter Ciccariellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064142385081707524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12251899.post-46788885055626450182010-11-09T18:14:00.001-08:002010-11-09T21:14:33.207-08:00A misread<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style>
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</style> <![endif]--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">There was love that was gone </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Love to an American is way too cinematic <br />
You know this </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">There was way of flesh but that also disappeared </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Living on too many little islands yes there were islands in hell too she said</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Then she was gone </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Who hauled these islands on their love frenzy mellow </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">But what!<span> </span>No her mellow gone too<br />
No need to cinematize these mornings just build on homes <span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">without any hopeless song there </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Hey who the hell dropped my cinematic for such little cash?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Now he, his orchestra and every wannabe knows of the real kings in your hell </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">You Americans are way too gone with your islands of consumption – way too gone</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">You love your coffee American frenzy to the mile-end of children of your convenience<span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">What home with no mile-end in sight we have your melody for you </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">American frenzy extraordinaire and we are expecting it to please you</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">We know your convenience you dirty little children of hopeless Samson </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Too many summers </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Too many built on cloud islands</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Bring home your melody king of coffee </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Long gone coffee Samson of eternal summer </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Who will recognize this frenetic waste of time we built for your convenience </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Cultivated for your devastated coffee islands </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Right up till we disappeared in the mixtape</span></div>Peter Ciccariellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064142385081707524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12251899.post-13602071023971516982010-11-06T16:12:00.001-07:002010-11-06T16:12:44.600-07:00The thalweg<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <br />
<div class="MsoNormal">The thalweg, </div><div class="MsoNormal">foggled with frass & verjuice </div><div class="MsoNormal">emitted a stridulous cacophony </div><div class="MsoNormal">not expected from such a fumarole.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">-<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span>Wordnik poem</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div>Peter Ciccariellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064142385081707524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12251899.post-39873166789796547072010-10-24T13:48:00.001-07:002010-10-24T13:48:50.413-07:00Deadfall<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The other: enter the myth<br />
Hesitation, reasonably like an apostrophe</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Marking the now empty space</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Who will walk the row beneath?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Non-attachment, instead</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The severed trunk swings back </span></div><h1 style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The unexpected, not what you counted on</span></h1><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">a tiny rustle of wind ruffling </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the fuzzy oak leaves</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The sun slips down behind the hill</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The rustle of wind,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Imagine a hill,<br />
The sun balanced like an apostrophe <br />
Marking the wind ruffling through the leaves</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">All the things you have done wrong in your life <br />
A will of ones own?<br />
Like the apostrophe <br />
The sun slips through the trees<br />
<i>The unexpected </i></span> <span style="font-size: small;">empty space is a catastrophe<br />
balanced like an apostrophe </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Deadfall, the waiting, the [will happen]</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div>Peter Ciccariellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064142385081707524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12251899.post-36920903678139679012010-10-13T19:54:00.000-07:002010-10-13T19:54:57.221-07:00child<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <br />
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <div class="MsoNormal">How I remember!</div><div class="MsoNormal">A small child</div><div class="MsoNormal">A boxwood hedge</div><div class="MsoNormal">Grass spider webs shimmering in the foggy dew</div><div class="MsoNormal">Morning sky scumbled</div><div class="MsoNormal">With soft cerulean and faint rose</div><div class="MsoNormal">Perfumed with lilies and <span>Sweetfern</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>the Sensual din of cicadas </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>Peter Ciccariellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064142385081707524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12251899.post-67996200520676045392010-09-26T19:47:00.001-07:002010-09-26T19:47:56.299-07:00Last summer<i><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">For Oakley </span></i><br />
<br />
<br />
Remembering what you said<br />
I took the last remaining ear of sweet corn<br />
From the dry cackling stalk<br />
And sat down watching the bittersweet turn color<br />
“we eat them right in the field,<br />
never cook ‘em, way, way best that way”<br />
you told me, the son teaching the father<br />
<br />
after your last summer working the corn field<br />
off Scuttle Hole Road<br />
this temporal contiguity, not the least lost in this fleeing moment<br />
nor the sun and cool rain in the kernels<br />
no longer knowing if I am here<br />
remembering you<br />
or you are there remembering mePeter Ciccariellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064142385081707524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12251899.post-71157621574938037652010-08-07T14:52:00.001-07:002010-08-07T14:52:28.740-07:00You open your eyesYou open your eyes<br />
<br />
You swing your left leg rotating your acetabulofemoral joint<br />
The heal of your foot is about to touch the cool wooden floor<br />
Infinite possibilities are present<br />
<br />
The floor is no longer there<br />
Your foot is a claw that can only write sonnets<br />
There is no space between you and history<br />
That which has always happened will never happen again<br />
The wooden floor is where the exegesis ends and the eisegesis begins<br />
Your sonnets begin to claw away all possibilities<br />
The distance between your foot and the wooden floor<br />
Is the immeasurable void between the sublime and the juggernaut<br />
The cool wooden floor was never there<br />
You haven’t opened your eyes<br />
<br />
“All’s right with the world”<br />
“All’s right with the world”<br />
“All’s right with the world”<br />
<br />
Belief is at once prophetic, magical, sublime, how futile!<br />
The space between your foot and the floor<br />
Is either immense, or you are moving very slowly<br />
All Grows smaller with each passing moment<br />
The moment becomes the distance<br />
Your foot that was a claw becomes a foot again<br />
All your sonnets become dust and winged insects<br />
You recognize in yourself the sublime and the juggernaut<br />
<br />
…and carry forth from this day forward<br />
<br />
The wooden floor is the sea of being<br />
That you will never slip your toe in<br />
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You open your eyesPeter Ciccariellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064142385081707524noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12251899.post-22054898510653445992010-05-20T13:46:00.000-07:002010-05-20T13:47:32.683-07:00“Poor Yorick, remembering, preparing”New issue of 13 miles from Cleveland is out at<a href=" http://tinyurl.com/32akao3"> http://tinyurl.com/32akao3</a><br />
My image is here – “Poor Yorick, remembering, preparing” <a href="http://tinyurl.com/39h2g3m">http://tinyurl.com/39h2g3m</a>Peter Ciccariellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064142385081707524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12251899.post-48591482903279452822010-05-14T16:32:00.001-07:002010-05-14T16:32:09.355-07:00lock us up forever XI<a href="http://invisiblenotes.blogspot.com/">http://invisiblenotes.blogspot.com/</a>Peter Ciccariellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064142385081707524noreply@blogger.com0