42opus
is an online magazine of the literary arts.
2 March 2004 | Vol. 4, No. 1
from Severance Songs
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Stand back! Back to the potter's field,
dark hillocks signifying darkly
what glares in the redrawn screen.
Fixed now these voices we've built upon—
their dream (Traumwerk), their disorder—post us.
O glimmer, red raw screen, the face an anterior
intruder, pressing wetly at the back of my skull.
Terrible to outlive meaning, pater.
Terrible to die without finishing, mater.
The mother that I read—words, words.
The pattering of a little feat.
Beware Kinderdichtung: enfin les enfants
rise here and there, winking nightlights, shaping
the terrorscape our bodies have buried.
About the author:
Joshua Corey is the author of Selah (Barrow Street Press, 2003). "La Famille" is from his forthcoming book Fourier Series, which won the Fitzpatrick-O'Dinn Award for Constrained English Literature and will be published by Spineless Books. He lives in Ithaca, New York and keeps a blog, Cahiers de Corey.
Source:
http://42opus.com/v4n1/standbackback
