Living Detritus
Understanding displacement
as verbal working value
as unusual breakage
the poem appears beyond protracted struggle
beyond reinvention as demand
its evolutive element ascends as blazing
as illusive verbal utopia
above angst as scholarly research
as clinical bravura
via electrical power prone to unexpected magnification
its marrow
its bravura
extending out of nothingness
simultaneous with vulnerability
with stamina
crossing its burning plain of thought
rising via its state
of perfect electrical animation
Notes:
From Divine Blue Light, © 2022 by Will Alexander. Reprinted with permission of City Lights Publishers, citylights.com. For more information about Divine Blue Light, visit here
This poem is part of the portfolio “Will Alexander: Poet-as-Spectrometer” from the November 2022 issue. Audio version performed by the author.
Source:
Poetry
(November 2022)
