THE FLAMETHROWER CENTO - BY CHRISTOPHER LIBERTINO

Описание: Cento and Video by Christopher Libertino
Read by Richard Stibbard
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The Flamethrower Cento By Christopher Libertino
the angel flesh that swims among the wreckage(1), its rapids and apples,(2)
crowding the entire span of heaven.(3)
the bound & the radial crown.(4)
paint on an upturned skiff,(5) one ruin shining on another,(6) In the garden she can’t leave(7)
Come, night. Come, sleep.
Come, fog, wreathed in feather
& sift.(8)
All of effort was to reach the
Sound before the darkness came(9)
too far at sea, facing the violent winds, never land, never once again to shore,(10) One hand holding what the other forgets.(11)
Strange, how alive
the mind at night, shaping
the shadows, sharpening them
to silhouettes.(12)
there are no ghosts anymore. Even in dreams(13) If I speak
the correct order
of extracted words,(14)
this animation of so many brittle tones.(15)
A thousand in the meadow beyond(16)
where a dropped plum
incandesces to a star.(17)
Now the crow calls from elsewhere and(18)
raven in a million colors(19)
and every night a church full of wild canaries.(20) Not a soul to be seen, no candle
burning at either end of the long corridor.(21) Checkered moonlight through the lattice.(22)
like a lamp turned off in a house on the hill(23) The core of us is strange.(24)
You leave me and you
leave to where I cannot follow,(25)

1 “Benthos” by Bruce Bond
2 “Impromptu” by David A. Axelrod
3 Ibid.
4 “House-Tree-Person” by Rebecca Dunham
5 “Long Gone Ones” by Keith Leonard
6 “Bat Hour Gospel in Charlottesville” by Mark Wagenaar
7 “Mnemosyne in the Garden” by Victoria Dalkey
8 “Pill” by Rebecca Dunham
9 “Where the Meanings Are” by D.R. Wagner
10 “From Frozen Ice” by Lenny Emmanuel
11 “Reverse Ghazal” by David Welch
12 “Wedding Night” by Lauri Anderson
13 “Rain Dance” by Jude Brancheau
14 “Hold my Hand” by Tom Holmes
15 “Fragments for Mandolin and Voice” by George M. Steele
16 “Three Hiroshige Prints” by David Shattuck
17 “Ode to the Midwest Wind” by Bruce Snider
18 “Tsisnaasjini” by próspero saíz
19 “Only Trees” by Michael S. Morris
20 “Casals” by Gerald Stern
21 “The Long Corridor” by Dennis O’Driscoll
22 “First Mortgage, 1971” by Gregory Fraser
23 “I Decide to Drop Emily Calvino from My Address Book” by Tony Hoagland
24 “Benthos” by Bruce Bond
25 “Morning After, Scorned” by Anne Barngrover

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