Perennial Measure: Vita Su Un Altro Mondo

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Vita Su Un Altro Mondo

All right. To make my vocabulary simple,

I’ll only whistle to a bus’ sighs, permit my

Daughter’s flying kite to get near my 15th

floor terrace, Beatles singing “Michelle,” a

French stanza, I have yet to ask her aunties

when they’re coming back home, an island

to reclaim their souls here on my tiled floor

with occasional birds’ braving for cereals.

Okay. And my dictionary by the rails could

kill a baby passing on this windy morning,

with cable TV blaring its own phraseology

and very, very articulate criticism of art.

Have I forgotten reality? I write, fart.

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About "Perennial Measure," the first blogged poetry volume on this site:

On the seventh day in the writing of this collection, or perhaps already subconsciously during the making of that first poem, it became clear that this series, Perennial Measure (the volume), shall be about the practice of poetry and art. Having laid that assumption down, trying to follow that course, however, I saw that I was able to move later to the creation of pieces on various other themes, as if I was trying to present to my reader those various themes and issues that confront a poet in his life and everyday world, qua poet. But, so as not to veer too far away from my central theme, the series would interrupt that straying again to make me go back to pieces strictly on poetry or art. And that push and pull from the central theme went on to the end of the volume project (which targeted 56 pieces or 56 printed book pages worth). So, approach this collection thus, then, should it please you, and consider reading the last poem, "Perennial Failure," against the first one, "Perennial Measure." Otherwise, you can just approach the section or volume or book how you would rather, as maybe you should. Here is Perennial Measure, the blogged poetry book within this eponymously titled Perennial Measure blogged literary creations site.