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Raphael Moser

Three Poems

 

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

 

A supposed persona discolored
by melody and rooted to the bump
of allegiances and stubborn fancy
Atlas' tears lays waste to his issue
Like his bravely mass punctured by terrors
Japanese maple drops its voided leaves
dark and brittle sutures of memory
swept up in a masquerade of weather
Each time that the small boy loses his way
a hunkering compresses a season
iridescence dimming at the traplines
acquisition of ashen rind in kind
The father seizes the shape of the son
slippery and blunt it falls from his hands

 

 

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                                    A murmuring contempt
                                demonstrates itself
                                like a found object
                                                   Listen
                      A commercial humility
sidled past the designated prix fixe and expected tithe
                                                   That coy jackhammer bowing and
clutching
                                 amenities prescribed for more social deliveries
In the lean transaction
                        equivalence is conceded through exchange
complicity awards entrance and must be maintained
                                                 like a habit
                        Affect is surplus
it is a signal to enforce the code
                                  and ensure fascinated traffic
 
A supervening conscience
                         may excise the order
                                              may proffer
an ingenious measure, a prolonged excess
                         Acquiescence devolves duty
                                                  and is marked as conspiracy
When the implied collaboration
                             of a no fault contact
penetrates the system, amends gravity,
                                      every gesture
                                                    eventually collapsed a heaviness
demanded destination
                     In the distance
                                     a discernible freedom avails itself
 
Exact, detatched, a state of grace
                                     an irrefutable existence
                                     according to obligation

 

 

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A rhythmn Of grunt And clank, carries soaked. For days in churning.
This space Is shared. We drink, When served. We are not             alike.
We seek out rays, We plunder. There are arguments. Cross currents
of paper, And answering. Someone Is in control. Laying me down
on fluffy things. And twisted dreams, cotton cotton. A pair of hands
A strip-search gaze questions How to describe How to earn this expression.
The man on the telephone bows and snaps his howling body – - – - – - – - – - -
Shingling.                     Exhortations are sure to transmute.
Clamped, across. Inlets of,                      A practice of steady and nurture.
After ringing A hissing A chair revolves, A tendency toward severance.
Repetitions of yearning, Music. Fractures layers of machines imitations
of skin. Where notes surf fissures, Dangling their secrets.
Wrapped and rewrapped with funereal precision, She makes him say
things he Doesn't understand.