The Machinery Inside You
A train’s piercing whistle rents the air. The city’s early vibrations awakens the pavement from its asphalt amnesia. Scenes of struggle and survival played out inches from the surface of pulsing humanity. This is the day your soul gets date stamped. There is no other machinery left inside you. A frayed landscape without illusion or pretense. Can you match the Fog for density or the Crow for Black? You move towards blue pools of morning light re-assess fecundity, make clumsy attempts at language-- Linear tease. Control meat. Delicious camera eye. Internal bones. Rhizome replicating machines. It seems we are always moving towards that one perfect reconstituted koan or art form. To study mountains well, sometimes you have to bang your head against the clouds. Grow another pain in your pocket, Dig another hole in the ground. Unleash blood. Everything is dissipated now for the sake of your art. You bend it willow, will it, shape it from organic memory. This cold machinery that pulses inside you, Frida. Denis Robillard Denis Robillard has had more than 200 poems published across Canada, The USA and Europe since 2005.
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