The senses are yours to compose a world of beauty with the might of your mind.

Contents

. repose . recoil . rigour . resplendence

More fictions than the psyche can imagine are real. Care is called to be taken in ensuring things are not too literally taken. Therefore poetry seeks a position of assertion in perceiving the malleability of physical reality.

The notion poems, particularly those among these pages, are autobiographical must be abolished. This is not a totalistic call but a recollection and acknowledgement to the people who have documented records and proof of their experience and having met the audacity of the listener to deny that experience.

Understanding comes through a deeper step through someone’s shoes and reveals an ability to survive the underworlds with that person. Enduring these ideas, and carrying the water we find below back with us, is my heart’s wish for people to remember the heavenly plane that exits on earth.

There are lines people do say in an attempt to hide the truth. And so it is often through looking back on the pattern a psyche had and its expression in the body, to find ways where mistakes or misdeeds perform as salt. To further explain the meaning of this metaphor:

Salinity relative to water exercises a dyadic of density. Based on the understanding water is the great unifying element and symbol of consciousness, the density of salinity creates ecosystems requiring contextual discernment.

Some morsels of life require a shake to be palatable and others times there’s much too much seasoning, and the salt must be tossed over the shoulder for good luck instead.

As for the habitat, flies gather to brine and marine life flourishes under ideal balance of elemental conditions.

There is a romanticism that is less ideal and more practical when it comes to the weavings made with these black and white impressions of recollections of events that actually did occur. Otherwise known as words, the reader digests the tone and meaning in a voice either offered or situated from within the reader’s mind.

Therefore the words cannot be the author in reality, as Walter Benjamin asserted, the words are coming from a subjective origin within the reader. Therefore the act of reading is also a performance of souls dancing together. The shared temporal space with the text obliterates the “I.” Often the real life events were much stranger than the phrases these pages suggest. And yet, the melody of life sung itself through our bones and days.

What in heaven’s sakes possess anyone to write poetry in 2023? The only truth personal bit in this collection echos as a recollection of transforming actual and imagined fears into full on creative agency.  The blade of the pen, tapped out on a keyboard of course, became the discernment grinder between ideas of illumination and rubbish.

The time at which these lined were scribed into the memory of what a book ought to look like, was a time I committed myself to pointing to social policies running rampant resulting in celebrating rugged individualism, destruction of the family, and extreme celebration or demolishing of the notion: of the “I” in identity.

© Mari Amman. All Rights Reserved.

Poetry, Prose &Suche VOL III.

First edition 2023, electronic distribution. Text and Images by Mari Amman.

The poems contained within this volume were drafted circa 2006-2009, in Chicago, USA, and edited during spring 2023 in Paris, France, with the enormous support of The Trélex Residency.

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