Marcia Arrieta



small books of poems.   minimal drawings.
recycle the bottles.   throw out the trash.
there is noise everywhere.   I can’t sleep at night.
there is a pause in reveal.
two points are aligned in the abstract.
please do not ask what it all means.


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books, art


the forms of restless

compose the list

cross-reference

research

into

the threshold of

throw off

running

lessons of


(I’m having a conversation
with you & you are walking
out of the door)

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conversations

nonchronological pencil drawing poems
dreams in blue reasons rectangles a canvas
a painting images objects ideas—shells
pinecones stones—transformation stages
uncharted black ink


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I catch empty white pages

restless the hours

rain imminent

the birds are silent

I must examine the wind


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between


the bird
&
the star


the paper clip


left
on the step
in the sun


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the library of sky


thinking furrow runaway oaks stories
past strength shadowed power
speaking bears fish owls
as if candor could delete the surreal forest

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[ disseminate impulsive ]



poems & characters


          [ exist ]


outside chaos

the slightest canvas theory—


          [exists ]


symbolic

illustrate maybe




Marcia Arrieta's work appears in The Last Vispo Anthology, BlazeVOX, blue & yellow dog, Osiris, Spittoon, Rufous City Review, and great weather for MEDIA's It's Animal but Merciful. Her book of poems triskelion, tiger moth, tangram, thyme was published by Otoliths in 2011. She is currently working on a manuscript of poems and line drawings, inspired by Emily Dickinson's "I dwell in Possibility." She edits and publishes Indefinite Space, a poetry/art journal.
 
 
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