from approximative translations

BY Arlene Ang

five : leap

skin
not with-
standing : kewpie
doll serialized on kelp : how
hunger shapes itself into an aluminum fork twisted out
of shape by teeth : capsicum worms & spittle smoking the candle
wick : an orphan soils the draperies with caviar while curling
the faces in photographs : like fire or the eyesight of one
nearly dead : let barefoot with thorns be the hilltop : a coat flutter &
the third floor enters a migraine : keepsakes with scratches at the back :
five ossified cats nailing a
family (sad
trapdoor)
shut

six : sundown

blue
fruit fly
of denial :
that rain exists only within
the deer’s reality : an almanac opening to page six
awash in knife wounds : cold skeletal crack of twigs underfoot :
icarus burning & the sky trapped among newspapers : to replay
falling objects so many times inside the mind that chimney smoke
transmutes to wings : the houses are desolate at having to leave
their place of self : watering shadows & the struck butterfly : what’s
left now : a cigarette butt tips
its homelessness
to the
light
 

Biography

ARLENE ANG is the author of four poetry collections, the most recent being a collaborative work with Valerie Fox, Bundles of Letters Including A, V and Epsilon (Texture Press, 2008). She serves as staff editor for The Pedestal Magazine and Press 1. She received the 2006 Frogmore Poetry Prize and the 2008 Juked Poetry Prize. She lives in Spinea, Italy.

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