Joel Chace
Scripts, 12-14
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12.
two giants / stands
far and tiny behind them
sees this watches the huge
man grip his giantess’s head force it down
into the deep sink her arms pinned to
sides giant at her back pushes stiffened
neck head farther into the gray
sink you missed me again
again you missed me words /
tiny far but clear
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13.
road into town to
find buildings streets even
other roads away and back across
back / shuffling around in half-light
the one leaving the one staying / the one
leaving shifting blurring and
having returned blurred shifted
part of the one having left left behind
or having brought from
from back a small something /
the one having stayed must revise must
because both must eat
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14.
inca descent it means / diction
letter by letter again slowly it spell
it a dictionary one letter at a time
meaning / incan essence
slowly look
again / incandescence
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Joel Chace has published poetry and prose poetry in print and electronic magazines such as 6ix, Tomorrow, Lost and Found Times, Coracle, xStream, Three Candles, 2River View, Joey & the Black Boots, Recursive Angel, and Veer. He has published more than a dozen print and electronic collections. New from BlazeVox Books is CLEANING THE MIRROR: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, and from Paper Kite Press, MATTER NO MATTER, another full-length collection. For many years, Chace has been Poetry Editor for the experimental electronic magazine, 5_trope.
Scripts, 12-14
* * *
12.
two giants / stands
far and tiny behind them
sees this watches the huge
man grip his giantess’s head force it down
into the deep sink her arms pinned to
sides giant at her back pushes stiffened
neck head farther into the gray
sink you missed me again
again you missed me words /
tiny far but clear
* * *
13.
road into town to
find buildings streets even
other roads away and back across
back / shuffling around in half-light
the one leaving the one staying / the one
leaving shifting blurring and
having returned blurred shifted
part of the one having left left behind
or having brought from
from back a small something /
the one having stayed must revise must
because both must eat
* * *
14.
inca descent it means / diction
letter by letter again slowly it spell
it a dictionary one letter at a time
meaning / incan essence
slowly look
again / incandescence
* * *
_____
Joel Chace has published poetry and prose poetry in print and electronic magazines such as 6ix, Tomorrow, Lost and Found Times, Coracle, xStream, Three Candles, 2River View, Joey & the Black Boots, Recursive Angel, and Veer. He has published more than a dozen print and electronic collections. New from BlazeVox Books is CLEANING THE MIRROR: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, and from Paper Kite Press, MATTER NO MATTER, another full-length collection. For many years, Chace has been Poetry Editor for the experimental electronic magazine, 5_trope.
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