within sky

Marcia Arrieta

BL AZEVO X[ B OO KS ]
Buffalo, New York
within sky
by Marcia Arrieta
Copyright © 2022

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Cover Art: Marcia Arrieta

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Acknowledgements

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the editors and publications in

which some of these poems first appeared—Otoliths, BlazeVOX, Eratio,
Osiris, Barrow Street, Whiskey Island, Marsh Hawk Review, Cathexis:
The Icarus Anthology, Clockwise Cat, Literature Today, Word For/Word,
Parentheses, Daphne, the winnow, Epigraph, Empty Mirror, Great Weather
for Media: The Careless Embrace of the Boneshaker, Local Nomad, and
Dancing Girl Press.
There is an old saying, “Writing is a person.” Art is also a personality. If you were able to
face all different phenomena with the clear, bright eyes of the mind, you are automatically
nurtured in nature’s spirit. Even if a man stands only five feet tall and cannot leave the
ground, there is unlimited soaring on the wings of creation.

—Chiura Obata

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or

better than the whole.

—Georgia O’Keeffe

This distinction between past, present, & future is an illusion, however tenacious.

—Albert Einstein
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 a small untitled manuscript

found—

with a canvas under a yellow umbrella

with pieces of broken glass & sand

cover sewn together with red thread & remnants of blue &
white gingham, newspaper, & wild green parrot feathers

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hours

increments

that weave

the bells

& stones

echoed

in

words

uncompromised

waves

imprint

scarcely

An iridescent chaos (Cezanne)

times

silence

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correspondence

indeterminate

lightening

sundial

raft rain

parallel

context

luminous

the contradictions

Gaea/Apollo

terra-cotta votive lamps

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hieroglyphic the hermit

hideaway in the canyon or desert

the books the trees the trails

the art of Kandinsky & Klee—

add the music of the spheres

the poetry of Dickinson & Neruda

the philosophy of Emerson & Thoreau—

sky mountains stars

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interlude vision

focused/unfocused the days a dragonfly a ladybug a hedgehog

notes written calls made the sculpture of recycled glass reflects
star sun idea more door than square the instant tracing
the shoes the paintbrush language as dream language as chrysalis

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blue star in a sand field

I take sensibility & bury it in the garden. I abandon the conformity of a pincushion.
we struggle to complete the sentences as though they will unlock the cupboard.
the question is a bridge, a fisherman. the old dog wanders in the night. we continue
to dream of islands.

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reading three books

headache transubstantiation. there are owls hidden in the oak—vision & loss.
loss & vision. paint by number days. connect the dots. soliloquys in winter.
ranches & orange groves. the quiet of the river or the lake. meditative umbrellas.
sweatshirts. we walk in sand. we revere the sun, look to the moon for guidance.
the angels protect us. the birds remind us to listen.

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to build a tree house

an armadillo a hummingbird the ideas are in the land do not capture

the caterpillar formica & an O’Keefe & Merritt ee cummings a shot
of Jameson the words as maze arrows/clouds/cathedral papyrus &
experience engrave the heart in a portrait cultivate the invisible
try to stay awake

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