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From section 7 of
“Prayer to Ariadne”
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Build me a skylight—
one like the sky
at the end of exile
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when the tongue returns
to the mouth and the soul
cries out what it knows:
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that we too have been complicit
in the great secret, the off stage
oath that knows but has no time—
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even though all day we hear
the sound of ice
breaking
the sound of flesh
dying
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sound of sound of sound of
everything at once
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This poem is from the chapbook eyes that look with sun but see with moon, and can be found at https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/eyes-that-look-by-jack-greene/
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eyes that look with sun but see with moon moves the reader through rooms of Vermeer to atomic fall out shelters to dioramas of taxidermied deer, finally arriving where it started: in light. The experience of the poems is an intimate, internal gallery, one that merges words and images and light into a new gravitational pull, each in and of its own frame, and all a part of this life, this planet.
Jack Greene is a poet and photographer. His poetry has been published in the Liliput Review, not enough night, Bombay Gin, Mungo vs. Ranger, Rattapallax, and the Sextant Review. He holds a MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University, as well as BA in English Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a past recipient of a Colorado Council on the Arts Poetry Fellowship and served as a poet-in-residence for the Colorado Council on the Arts. He has taught poetry and creative writing workshops and courses in the Front Range. His photography has been exhibited at Naropa University, the Boulder Jewish Community Center, and the University of Colorado, Boulder, and can be viewed at jackgreenephotography.picfair.com. He lives in Longmont, Colorado with the writer and performer Lisa Trank.
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