Refractive Africa by Will Alexander

Author:Will Alexander
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780811230285
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2021-11-02T00:00:01+00:00

Eruption from the Compound of Living

For Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo

Beneath a luminous compound equator

inscribed on Madagascar

Jean-Joseph

you erupted from disquiet alive as post-zodiacal phantom

knowing from birth that your blood was none other than oneiric ferment

as the “Black glassmaker”*

you possessed invisible lingual beauty

having somehow risen above mange-eaten wrath

& exposed its perjury by the mere fact of living

colonial wrath through refraction

singed your shadow through negation

lit a fire of riot in your system

tempestuously self-veiled from itself

via beatific blizzard

via inspiration as spiraling apogee

as trans-partisan inferno

striding through bedlam

via your living moment as insubstantial ash

as momentary doctrine

your roaming strewn with caliginous weaving

provoking useless gradients & doctrines

through which you strolled as cryptic leopard destined to dwell under the psychic cannibals of France

there was always this split inside you

this garrulous shading

this plague of contorted values

provoking in you peculiar lingual spells seminal with strychnine

certainly not a visibly wrecked mule

or a formless amalgam of rage

instead

intoxicated verbal power

aristocratic blazing

poetically sculpted telepathy

as terse invigorated agency

of course as phantom

as a-pragmatic migratory wanderer

you were eclectic with decimation

kinetically invisible

surrounded by mazes scattered with voids as interregnums

never sterile with domination

or with bitterness through terminal registration

spectral with navigation

you enunciated grace

via endemic lingual styling

not unlike compound telepathy enmeshed with magical laterality

being pluvial & involved in the midst of private colloquy

alive as imaginary irritant

as subtle germination

as ironic watery ash

filled with “invisible rats”

with alchemic kindling from Imerina*

working via the kinesis of bravery equated with flashes that were glints

sans persistence as induction or forms of stabilized mirage

this being the stage of subtlety rendered antelope

a stage that implies mist where language empowers subconscious formation

as prime symbol of otherness

as wind that erupts from sparkling emerald gulfs

from gazelles that wander through spinning solar habitation

this being language as kinetic distillation

& you

Jean-Joseph

continue to roam as otherness

as presence that squares itself with elements that raze & sunder carbon

as if our whole solar family had curiously slipped beyond existence itself

being 3/4 beyond our galactic mean

you found an entry point via prime tonality of your magical mental scale

never as secular thought-wave

but as invisible oscillation where poetic syllabics glanced off of private inner registration

so that magical glimmers protracted themselves

& as forms emerged from these glimmers

they furtively advanced beyond the post-exhaustive

sans decades & calculation

your language

implying dawn as magical realm

moving as apparition through apparition

so that there existed no eclipse from prior elements

that continued to spin & approximate calliope

so as to broker gulls from invisibility

so that you magically brokered the unseen

via verbal annealing

via solitude cleansed by momentary waking

via emptiness that rises above the state of universal bickering

& from the present plane we thank you

for aural power that weaves its way beyond what could be ironically rendered static osmosis

that continues to mine nutrients from interstellar rotation

your writing sublimates power through seeming vacancy as non-effort

so that you were never quite considered as colonized persona

but as strangely en-fired carbon

brought to bear as inflammatory riddle

Jean-Joseph

poet

gambler

spell chaser

collector of numerous female sirens*

seducing reality by inflammatory crystal

by phonemes spun from eclipse & fire

as if you counted sapphires in your sleep

yet all the while

forced to pose as a fifth-rate caricature who characterized the French

with their stumbling & deception

that promised you transmission to Paris

so that

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