Coeur de Lion by Ariana Reines

Author:Ariana Reines [Reines, Ariana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fence Books
Published: 2011-11-24T12:31:11+00:00

I guess there is no point saying

These things we did. We know

What we did. But stating them

Is like reinstating them

Inside me. It causes me some pain.

I want to feel this pain

Cos it helps me remember

Things. I am trying to decide

If the things humans emit

Between themselves

Have any reason. I am trying to decide

If the state of thought

Knows anything about

The intensity I felt

With you. Maybe these poems

Are an excess of certain

Fleeting sensations, and I should

Just, I don’t know, get high or go

Out dancing; try to make

Something of myself. Even now

As I look at them, and it hasn’t even

Been a week, you aren’t very clear

In my mind at all and I have no idea

What I miss or what I want, if

Anything. It is so over

Between us, I guess. I see your face

Receding into coffee-colored

Light, I see ochres

And resins in a richness that I can only

Imagine tonight. I am writing this

In order to lose you

For my own purposes, a little

More severely than the dissipated

Vacuum that invests interpersonal

Relations in this place

If this even is a place

Tends to allow. Like the climatic

Metaphors you employed

To describe your emotions, as though

They were inexorable, impersonal as

The planet, as though you were a creature, half

Sentient, at the mercy of the elements.

Saying that when your body did something you

Did it too’s important in terms of ethics. Even if

Your having been a field across which certain things

Transpired sounds good in terms of physics.

I have to ramp

Up the drama of this or I’ll be lost.

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