Marie Anzalone's Blog, page 6

Notes from a Trip Home

Art is a full time-love affair;it was never designed to be forced into hours stolenfrom the mantel clock;it never fit into casual discourse;or tedium of “making a living.”The creation of art is the liberation of life, the hallowingof sacred ground for ..

Homeland

written as a meditation on theme of "home" as homework for Casa los Altos poetry group

For Us All: Wings of Wax

final in a series written as a set for a contest; theme, grand failure in love

translation: "Am I?"

my work translating a poem by a Guatemalan writer for his book

Topmost Branches

You advertised for a lapdogand did not know what to do when a timber wolf arrivedand rang at the front door.  You wanted a sun shower,but received a deluge.you imagined a dim bulbhiding in a back closetbut contracted a lightning storm.You painted a silk r..

Plasma

We learned in school that there are3 states of matter but there are actually 4 and I know them all as intimatelyas my own orgasm becauseyou transform me intoall of them.  With you air breathed becomes water that drowns inhibitions; my blood boils ..

Strong Women in Exile

You advertised for a lapdogand did not know what to do when a timber wolf arrivedand rang at the front door.  You wanted a sun shower,but received a deluge.you imagined a dim bulbhiding in a back closetbut contracted a lightning storm.You painted a silk r..

From an Apple Tree

inspired by an evening walk

Travel Destination

You are a man of the city, so meet this country girl out where theheadlightsof a hundred cars navigate thenarrowesttwo-way streets in the world andetchtheir passage into the nightscape; meet me where the evening breeze dragsits hands through the hollyhock androses..

This is Not a Love Poem

inspired by a poem by a fellow independent poet in our city