Hard Damage by Aria Aber

Author:Aria Aber [Aber, Aria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: POE005010 Poetry / American / General
Publisher: Nebraska

Schönheit / Beauty

Did he not, after all, visit Rodin to find the perfect poem? To understand our obsession with beauty?

After The Book of Hours, Rilke unfolded his soul from his own body, undertook the journey outward—he derived beauty from the world of things.

Beauty is primal, beauty precedes the interpreted world.

Like mud, it’s organic, always changing.

Today the editor in the white shirt asked me What printing device did your mother use? and I think that’s when I saw, really saw for the first time, not the prison but the thing preceding it: a basement cluttered with paper, drabs and ink, the city peeled completely white, her black hair curled with soda cans, printing the magazine that fought the government—and it occurred to me that she was beautiful.

What else is beautiful:

Your hands, at the end of a long day, carrying a cup of tea.

A European goldfinch’s warble quilting the song of my childhood, my youth: that verdant vibration, the smell of grass on my fingers, sandalwood.

To hear a droning in the distance and not suffer a sudden execution of your center, but think of bees drowned in jars of raspberry jam, their dead husks on the windowsill all summer, sweat pooling under your shirt, between your legs, face against the hum of the fan.

My mother’s voice, when it doesn’t tremble—her sitting on the black leather couch, reading something trivial in the news, unconcerned with her hometown, curlers in her hair, the radio on full volume. Her voice through WhatsApp, when it relates to me the story of a woman who abandoned her family, husband, children and moved into a cottage to write a book.

An angel filling the spaces between us—

Sometimes, my father’s green eyes, speckled black matter, the pupils moving like the shadows of moons on a lake.

It was a beautiful country.

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