zaum alliterations Marthe Reed Dusie Kollektiv 4 © 2009 Marthe Reed Printed for Dusie Kollektiv, Fall 2009 Nous-zot Press “My first memory is of the brightness of light... light all around. I was sitting among pillows on a quilt on the ground...very large white pillows...” – Georgia O’Keefe For Zeke and Clyde blue annunciation * silk’s quivering pulse a meeting of occasions tremulous terror beckoning felicity light spills wavers empties itself an occasion in blue an occasion in red a word’s dis -junctions blue boiling green the exact permutations of color water on paper a line of line’s orange fire other meanings red body city (bodied also what we learn of blue light’s muscled diffusion wavethrust \mountain blue and coral text heaven’s compositional ground cloud numeracy globes breast finger line a cropped body a shape night enters water’s ruin this landscape on the verge collapsable mirror a bow a shot in waiting an eager leap a shadow (ardor a line of ribs meeting how legs define a space lance appropriating desire’s air body’s caress ripened torso breast arc of light shadowskin then umber sweet of the dark a line in light flesh flanks furrow air tri angulating BODY bliss of light and dark 4 lines on light a warm gray is white a warm light we’ve vanquished all (all one horizon’s measure heat ’s buried night of black and white a tensile glance tension bending about itself caught in that regard love no sweet nor tender– _______________________ gravity posits intimations observation that pillow darkness unrelenting weights it a single star cloak lit moment we– bent or folding line ligne long coalescence where button source moon xantho gleam what waits wanders away marries willow agility /against spectrum’s collapse one (one) writing begun gone hung amid inviolate space an ochre glimmer because a curve in pink forgives certainty signals at the margin then lilac the reach of doubt dialogic:: moon globe (her) body satellitic flight or fallow white eclipses white against pink gray ’s green slice or slip slope accedes to slope intension warming their embrace blade’s line black’s emphatic gap cunning rift any overture refusing roseyeyed annihilation a white rose a rose is green a gray blue cloud vanishing into its own midpoint naval nectar light what is a neat what we bodying color forms addresses a line division fail to meet grace its own openings “she” lavender beckons line eroding faith like blue or fate a line continues composing fire we’re a gate allure gasping for air cropped explosion red violet’s plosive leap slot canyon night a sea or sky which is not we write of green and white dark they’re giddy with color soldiers marching apropos blind heat why pink why not giddy or dance there in blue in green’s blue lure why not fall we’ll topple there as always into wet that lush geometry:: coeval space displacement a natural exegesis fingers thumb bone as if we could open– gesture prophecy trajectory’s streak though pointing will only obscure our purpose on point the lines disaster (death) pulling us open gestures against longing a glance articulates forms armed aim covets an arm dreaming gray line leaning memory of body precarious ( ) radiation bodied surface (bodies) targeting night white core loci glimpsing itself falls gravid trace compressed volume (space so like an arm so likened embrasure wind mirror casement weight abandons us and we drift what channels red or turquoise cipher no earth nor sky tumbling anew black then gray at the physiological margin a kind in yellow folding form light shadow bliss neither gold nor orange pistil stamen anther night an other bound segment blue speculation reverie in blue bent upon itself blue charge caress wavering cobalt heat blue interrogates blue portal / eye white margin with blue * curved lodging oyster slate * red’s brittle ache blood desert * a lucid center falling a fluid rhythm “zaum” seeming seams grayandblack “foetus” zygote zaum alliterations a single gray tone musical notation Marthe Reed is the author of Gaze (Black Radish Books forthcoming 2010) and Tender Box, A Wunderkammer, with drawings by Rikki Ducornet (Lavender Ink 2007). Her chapbook (em)bodied bliss appears as part of the Dusie Kollektiv 3 chapbook series. Her work has appeared in New American Writing, Golden Handcuffs Review, and New Orleans Review, and in ezines such as HOW2, MiPoesias, Exquisite Corpse, and Big Bridge. New work appears in Word For/Word and is forthcoming from Fairy Tale Review and Ekleksographia. Her manuscript, an earth of sweetness dances in the vein, was a finalist in Ahsahta Press’ 2006 Sawtooth Poetry Contest. She edits Nous-zot Press, http://nouszot.blogspot.com/ Copy #________ of 50 handmade chaps