Three Poems, Heller Levinson

 ASTRAY

reared oblong

obliquity scatter

                                                corner table

                                                tether fray

                                                loin wobble

 

an iridescence at the foot of plunder

 

caged colloquy flirt transmissible, high-

strung hollows gape, astir with

unblemished ritual,

sweetening the backside of archaic resemblance patterns born of infidel grow contagious

 

throats glow

agitate

SENTINEL

heed

rail thin

                    vapour from a past idle

                    air as contraband

 

unseemly deposits dwarf the earnest

 

                    looking for clues   an

                    early tide

 

washaways

change heart

 

Note: SENTINEL Hinges to Richard Capobianco’s masterful Heidegger commentary, Heidegger’s Way of Being.

Richard writes: “Sentinel” in its root meaning is one who is open to and receives and takes in what is; one who “senses” all that is…. The “sentinel” as “herald” makes manifest what is manifest.

& Richard’s English translation of Heidegger’s translation of the Heraclitus fragment 93 is also pertinent:

The high one, whose place of the pointing-saying is in Delphi, neither uncovers (only) nor conceals (only); rather he gives signs.

Poet Will Alexander says this about SENTINEL:

Thanks for sharing this wayward musical drift, this wayward ensemble of splinters, this daring motific of blankness, the seeming thrill of in-action. Somehow blizzards burn and trace themselves by randomity, by a curious sanction of spells.

SOUJOURN

pass-through                     alight

          heft flex hammock burl

                              flounce

                    flop

          ply

bell overleaf

trill embark

 

the anchor

sinks back

 

into its own

recalcitrance

Heller Levinson is the author of LURE (Black Widow Press, 2022), and lives in New York where he studies animal behavior.