Argentina by Dennis Kelly

                Argentina

“Los artificios y candor del hombre”
—Jorge Luis Borges,
“El golem”

  already you can see—the tragic setting
      each thing here—in its appointed place
       the broadsword—the ash destined for dido
             the coin—ready for belisarius
      why do you weep—searching in lazy
bronze old hexameters—gone old empires?
  when 7 feet of dirt—waits for you
 a slow rush of blood—Argentina
      watches you now—the mirror of death
      dreaming you up—spitting in your face
 all your crummy dayz—so bourgeois
 goodbye middle class—it was the house
        by the street—you grew up in
 but now peron, evita—Argentina
        wants it back—again

(previously here)

Cleave poem submission: tea and sympathy by Dennis Kelly

___________tea and-sympathy

“the pictorial technique

of inserting a painting

within a painting

corresponds, in the world

of literature, to the

interpolation of a fiction

within another fiction”

—Jorge Luis Borges,

“When Fiction Lives in Fiction,”

Selected Nonfictions

________two poems-then three

_____living together-a family of one

_____endless stories-a house of mirrors

a whitman’s sampler-of little goodies

____little zen-jumps-bonjour gide genet borges

______zen + langpo=langcleave

mise en abîme detours–tres scheherazadesque

___z=e=n cleavages-to entertain guests

________sipping tea–with sympathy