[Realpoetik] Norma Cole

[RealPoetik Magazine]

*from* 14000 FACTS



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Slow walking, play

of evening, the silver

ships measuring time



Venus, a sliver

of time

beyond words



*

The clearing, the light

no gate separates

day and night



more than ever

place of indivisibility



the wolf sees all



*

Like souls greeting each other

from the windows of eyes



form or harm

turn back any time



snowflakes on a blue

ground



*

Floating sea ice

as if we’d



seen it just

yesterday



not used to

hearing that



music again



*

Looked like rain



peremptory music

from the limbic



system—lucky

you’re not still



in prison

somewhere



*

To imagine

a fortress



we’re given

a loop



a curveball

come in to play



*

The manner of their

presentation



aspects of vision “we’re

getting killed”



the burning zone

shifts, continuous

*carmen*, song



*

See what you

expect, a page



of flames, a cloud

the color of her



old heart, displayed

in a glass case



*

Fiction: bacon

and eggs in a

parallel universe



smells just as

good



he ran away

as if



the exigency of

is and is not



*

Potatoes, stones

their living eyes



atoms existing in

unparalleled worlds



as if to turn their

eyes from particular

stars





Among *Norma Cole**’s* books of poetry are *Natural Light* (Libellum)
and *Where
Shadows Will: Selected Poems 1988—2008* (City Lights). *To Be At Music,* a
book of essays and talks, will appear June 2010. Cole has received awards
from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Gerbode Foundation, Gertrude
Stein Award and Fund for Poetry. She teaches at the University of San
Francisco.

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