Poems
Marcia Arrieta
in the face of 0
elemental crises
consequences—detachment
the shipwreck the gypsy
the wound blossoms into an iris
graffiti
the lives across sky
contrast with trees rooted
internal/external worlds
a labyrinth/a forest
solitude has become a wall I must climb
a leaf
resists
boundaries
the color
of
hours
&
memory
balance/light
I study Klee
read Neruda & Paz
the grains of sand
a passageway
the trees inside time
remembering Chillida Leku
silence & space
improvisation
sculpture
forest to the sea to the mountain canyon
harmonic
variations
abstract
drawings
Bach &
the Virgin Mary
San Sebastian
Santiago
like boats in the sea
within sunlight
the sorrow
becomes
creation
&
the feathers
of the head
allow flight
apart from
the tangled
spider’s web
overlap—
the long
journey
through
snow
&
sand
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language/art
*
migration
hibernation
caribou/bear
*
resonance—
woods & sky
sunflowers
to exist
para Cecilia Vicuña y Pablo Neruda
river meets ocean
snails bells feathers yarn
ships ropes butterflies shells
porque somos de la tierra y de la mar
poemas artists books constellations
we are of dreams & clouds
Marcia Arrieta’s recent poetry collections include perimeter homespun (BlazeVOX) and vestiges (Dancing Girl). Her work appears in Claw & Blossom, Otis Nebula, Otoliths, Cloudbank, Word For/Word, Angel City, South Dakota Review, Anastamos, Hobart and Whiskey Island, among others. She edits and publishes Indefinite Space a poetry/art journal.