Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Justin Phillip Reed


 

AND I LOATHED MY BEAUTY FOR THAT.


this was always sposed to be a story of carnage. copper stripped from a
basement. walls barged down the river, ruddy as the stain on the sister’s seat.  [1]
that day in the rain & the frame still smoking. in the chainlink fence’s revenge,
it split her sole. rust grit & brick dust gripped in her prints. brush hisses in
dense brown hush. horseshoe kicks what you tryna say (trap shut.) into

snowbank the cricket twinkle renders. bring in the big evening. in its black
continuity, we are outnumbered & maneuvered by memory.

her beauty excruciates, emphasizes the cardinally directed reflections affixed to
Marlene Clark’s face. we stop the motion of molten metal & beg it, frozen,
reveal us intrinsically. the child born (e.g., Rosso), as creation, is a solicited
solidification of interior crisis, a temporary & meaningful clot. someone
chooses ruin for the wood. from that shot to this, both a cross cut & rip cut in
which classical sculpture is an anachronism & a parallel becoming:  [2]

grave(n) woman / “wonderful girl.” “barbie doll,” the father calls the mother’s
portrait: blush background, collarbones, curls, tinted lip. easy, the sands of his
pharynx romance: waterfall, rose furls, cinnamon stick. this blood coupling’s

a because of me, its symmetry & fuckery. thou art with me & once fine &
ordinarily poured your good years into systems of profit, piecemeal pocket-
booking stolen feed. grief, grief, relentless thrift. you suffocating burgundy
apology.



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