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The Lulling Machine [ as Persephone]
Matina L. Stamatakis resides in upstate New York as a freelance photographer and writer. Some of her works have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Drunken Boat, Big Bridge, Moria, Eratio, Wicked Alice, and Coconut. She is the author of Metempsychose (Ypolita Press, 2009), and co-author of Xenomorphia with John Moore Williams, which is set for publication in 2009, courtesy of Wheelhouse Press.
a squint of flame each light & bright
blade--the breadth of closeness & alignment
in the night
[somehow -- as a squib in the house of twigs --
I've whispered away my own nakedness]
now neither boom
nor destruction resonate
*
-- dear eye
your sex cannot flicker
as fiercely as candelabrum
must it be imperfect? mistaken for farce?
but my care is not with stillborn sparks
nor gentle lamplight
*
the roads of lichen I have doused --
those damp ivy devices
as slow sluggish eyelids
[like dawn] begin to unfurl
----- rise fall slow fast
there are no birds to mimic the sounds of sleep
no lifting curtains to echo: faster --- & yet
I've sung for colluvia mixed into clay banks
[the smallest hymnody] with slow fires
worn earthen & plain
Images of You
…between willing knees an oak sprouts wondrous sap--in amber
spring for tongue tapped-out--an acorn borne inside cupule;
that tenderness of new womb
Methodology (of Discourse)No. 2
I: Response to Naught:
the nocturnal rallentando of minds unfurled; entangled a vesper
bell; shell enshrouded by dark & longing, rankle diaphragm;
miscreant
& raw
::a moon is scanned through the eye of the loon,
crux of night‘s mute ray-- not so didactic nor outright
twisted & -un
II: Response to Thought:
cogito ergo sum:
("I" think) enigmatic what mist unraveled before it;
proof of undone, overrun its course
the rippled effect & rigorous pull of lever,
threads unselvedged; a quiver: the conveyor
belt’s magnum opus
conducting
the semidetached
& -un--the mind
thus churning the mental grind;
a discordant "I", unfettered
Tendrilled Aria
with Douglas A. Just
chromium thrust lustrous spittle
spilled upon her belly, marked
by beads of wet, appliquéd
in tuber rooted chasm recede
as calm, parting knead & heave
soft sans bush
maxillofacial thrust
in ocular gazed
crush a plush morning, filtered through beams of light,
defines its reigns upon the face of which it falls
& is sharpened, tongued through glass
lumens of twin consciousness
beaconed & beckoned
euphoric
Vortices
for Mark Lamoureux
figurines of ghosts, naevus on swollen areolae; two black suns;
two narrow-eyed visages --selfsame
on two hardened frames;
a mute-glisten
sometimes we are peerless before the glass
shimmer in murky opal
sometimes we erase landscapes from our eyes,
are thus enlightened
before blackened carcasses of trees--or the deep sea held against
a skeletal reef--
sometimes things seem very dark
Concupiscence
feeling removed from reality, pictures incused light's halogen body lapped,
tongue-slapped , thrashed slits of flesh; a departed realm
raw& daunted
what lithe animal the night's body---lackadaisied
between thighs, silkened glass--in eternality,
what sweet charnel of succulence glistened
& was thus expelled through labrum?
rivered & left
atremble?
what was once unabashed virgin skin--shaft
beckoned to rip & wet the slits with paraffin
plight for the night projected on stomach's
bold geography
the hum of breathy crescendos
heaved
through hidden
pink
Chasmotica
with Douglas A. Just
the gauged flesh is wrapped, a meaty coil, bone-cored
and spiral-locked. Some love is mauve and marrow,
the murk of meat mortar,
pestle; a vessel; muscle another.
Fingers locked tightly into one another;
two rusted cogs of skin greased to crease
and cinch, warmly pinching a smooth glisten.
Dilute the extruded light; a surge of thrust reduced
to imploded splatter. Acquiesce to squalor.
Brine rushes a bitter paste,
saline the sweet sweat of thrust, redux
lessened, lathe wet in the wool air.
Muscle and cinch warmly pinch the itch,
extrudes the exhaled
lightly
Matina L. Stamatakis resides in upstate New York as a freelance photographer and writer. Some of her works have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Drunken Boat, Big Bridge, Moria, Eratio, Wicked Alice, and Coconut. She is the author of Metempsychose (Ypolita Press, 2009), and co-author of Xenomorphia with John Moore Williams, which is set for publication in 2009, courtesy of Wheelhouse Press.
