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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SLEEPLESSNESS, by LUIGI FONTANELLA First Line: In subsequent waves / when a fit of anxiety is enough | |||
1. in subsequent waves when a fit of anxiety is enough to lose oneself in the layers, a sleepless drowsiness, on the tense outline of the steps a veil of astonished dust, and mute to the sudden sight the panting of a speedy every speedier race, long and distant variegated in the greed that the years do not subdue. 2. circular movements steeped in the verbal magma-tapping the keyed vibraphone where the timely choice appears always difficult, the race without a finish line, the narcissistic mania of the beyond that scatters scorn that slows in an emergent glow wordthings that every time tempt the expropriated Id symptom/syndrome of Ganser. 3. more and more headlong in the alogical incinerating, the nuance that counts and transplants other stems to grow one day one hour interposed in thick plots of calculated childhood: turnings lost among the new year's cliches and effortlessly apparent. 4. on the blackened street the usual mental processes multiply, the ivyleaf in tolerated cataclysms offers itself not to the hands of disguised criminals, the pulsating plaining of the mulberry by the house waits for mechanical fruits in sweet flavors of long windgusts and invents alphabets, the brown squirrel that furrows flounders flings itself on the net of the ancestral branches then in vigilant waiting for my step that he doesn't decipher. 5. today is a holiday, holiday, holiday the people make ready make haste (a bit) to the courtly spin that crushes every fresher hope. to hide among the year-curtains masturbating time that rests radiant fingerlengths on the walls carpets tables plants letters papers thoughts. 6. here, in the mild net that enchains days and tangled hopes the split-second-time is brief vaporizing desires and distances: another passage then another on the picture window of the today that I stop with a tracing finger. then the uncontrolled sliding. Used by permission of Story Line Press. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FATHER-SEQUENCE by LUIGI FONTANELLA THE TRANSPARENT LIFE by LUIGI FONTANELLA VICTORIA STATION by LUIGI FONTANELLA SENRYU: BLIND DATE by TIMOTHY LIU HOUSE WITH THE MARBLE STEPS by AMY LOWELL THE FRUIT GARDEN PATH by AMY LOWELL HOW THE GREAT GUEST CAME by EDWIN MARKHAM |
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