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Morandi: Natura Morta, No. 86

from Blown Realms and Stalled Explosions by Enablers

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I put the original poem in here, complete with Mike's quote from his unpublished novel Ruined For Life. Great writer, Mike. Check him out.

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A Poem Under the Influence: Morandi’s Natura Morta, No. 86

The foil on the pack catches my eye. An emptiness is captured there. The sky. The foil is reflecting the sky. Rhymes with it.
M. DeCapite

If he looks outside again,

perhaps the evening sky will blue a little more,

and the image half seen in the neighbor’s window

might bore into the lately-dulled warrens of his curiosity

and prowl among other burdensome urges not soon

(or already half-) written,

and find the same small, transcendent nudge

a sky and a pack of Camels once gave him.


He might see, as Morandi did,

that the trouble with getting any image right

is not a question of the wrong-aged soul

dithering between minutiae (such as light)

and intrigue (such as pussy)

but simply:

the little chasm of a late afternoon between the two boxes,

in the one and darkest shadow,

where who knows what truly sits on the table.


So he turns

(because you always must), and

before the image could disappear or, worse,

disappoint,

his eye led not just to a source---

or some glimpsed body

of a source---

but the emulsion, too,

the fade,

just to see something take hold

then die.

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from Blown Realms and Stalled Explosions, released October 5, 2011

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Band Members: Joe Goldring (former Swans, Toiling Midgets, Touched by a Janitor) on guitar; Kevin Robert Thomson (former Nice Strong Arm, Timco, Touched by a Janitor, now Hazel Atlas) also on guitar; poet, writer, and narrator Pete Simonelli on vocals. Rounding out the line-up is drummer Sam Ospovat (Ava Mendoza, Brendan Seabrook, tUnE-yArDs, William Winant). ... more

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