Karen Weiser
Four poems
2.4.04
A stutter fades
shelved note
light tipped in my pocket
tunneling to Virginia
secret terminal recipe
all parts waiting
a metaphor for soup
who is there
making it make itself
into tradition a song
hanging from above
printed like money
2.5.04
common man
blue jays are starry
bullets of morning-glory
little weights keep pace
hunker down in vectors
blue forest room
latched brain-tree
hope of clear eyeballing
boundless country sprawl
heavy sky patchwork
look landmarks of misdirection!
look crowd of prophets
lighting the fence
2.1.04
El Dorado
faded coloration attacks
the pace a sentence makes
where villains
hide like church bells
women in epic shape
an informational matrix
device to move the plot
remove your hat
skim the top
window swimming
underneath your mask
2.3.04
Opened by force
a small medical object
an ordinary body miracle
slow moving taxi
well rested among objects
like a sudden awareness of your face
I am not at home within
the fog of waiting
5th Avenue houses
a sleep with string
interior sounds casual
on another planet’s
fine serialized sand
the elevators move
a city-wide parallel conspiracy
aligned and abundant, wordless
stents for city-flux
rocket science as we hold the door
Karen Weiser lives in New York City where she is studying for her doctorate in English. Her chapbooks include Placefullness (Ugly Duckling Presse,2004) and Eight Positive Trees (Pressed Wafer, 2002). She has recently had poems in 6X6, Lungfull! Magazine, and Cypress Magazine, and online at mipoesias.com, canwehaveourballback.com and pompompress.com.
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