A mind filled by the heart sees a world full of beauty and compassion.

Contents

. ignorance . intensity . indignity . iniquity

Ignorance

to fail to notice

to avoid understanding

to lack and to want

NOVEMBER

Today turned over too many leaves, fallen

scuffed over and under moist autumn air

sniffed, coughed, and thought through a

trail of decent years, tiring, and yet temporary

disorientation is succinct but most inefficient

when describing

the feeling of, something dying

while continuing to pour through

a stinking mold of the past

remedied only by a stirred salt bath

floated upon love realized, gone awry

such the Midwestern plains damn the miles

far from any coastal springs of air

sunken by the filtration of limed stones

depressed by ice tomes

missed a displacement

stricken by of a history sketched

of transactional wills

my hand attempts to reveal

their adornments to form

from a vigour sweetened to overcome

the reticence of control by forces unknown

uneasy, indiscernible

for whom cares to know

the subjective reality aching

to fulfill the sophistic void

remaking the marvel of madness

easily dodged, bestowed me

broadened horizons of considerable standards

ensuring few shores find home for their tides here.

© Mari Amman. All Rights Reserved.

Poetry, Prose &Suche VOL I.

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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