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 Constance Stadler has been
writing, publishing, and
editing poetry from the 'prehistoric' epoch of print journals to
modern
e-times. She is currently a contributing editor to the e-zine 'Eviscerator
Heaven'. Her most recent work appears in such 'zines as Ditch,
ken*again,
Pen Himalaya, Clockwise Cat, Hanging Moss, Neonbeam, and Gloom
Cupboard. As
a political anthropologist specializing in North Africa and a
violinist, her
influences are multiform. Work in formative years with the late
poet
Gwendolyn Brooks was seminal, but no less so than Sufi Dervish
dancers, and
the challenges of mastering Bruch's first concerto.
Visible Hand
Chilblain strides
mock the
purposeful promenade
to cubicle abattoirs.
In djembe and kalimba
beat
ancient forgotten
fingertips
twist
Windsor
knot
garrotes
to lay
way for
prevaricative
deathbed lamentations.
The tower
of Violated
Promise
Immolated Hope
Annhilated Dream
soars
With every skeletal
Clasp.
Bone on bone
Assurances
of newborn niggard
Joy
assuaged by Dow Jones
sylphic acclivous
arcings
Towards
certainty
of golden
coffer
coffin.
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...on her blindness
I visualize raindrops
Undulant trails
Of glycerin prisms
Elongating rectangles
Of rivulet blue thought
I visualize stardust
Migratory
puffs
Of transfigured night shafts
Swelling fistulas
Of spectral yellow recollection
I visualize wind
Butterfly
ravishings
Of foliated certainties
Spiralling fragments
Of embedded rainbow scabs
I visualize sun
I visualize daybreak
I visualize dew
I visualize the lark
I visualiz...
I vis...
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