[Realpoetik] FARREN STANLEY

[RealPoetik Magazine]

FROM LUCIO FONTANA'S “SPATIAL CONCEPT, WAITING” (1960)





The surface cannot hold so just

give it a little tap



tap tap



The shape in the distance stretches and sighs, suggests

a mountain, the fin of some predatory



fish, the encroaching tooth, a horizon



(trees, corn) (razed fields)



by destroying the document you can force the eyes behind,

and through



the document becomes artifice and the wall, performance



here you can find a muscular red expanse and

off-centered, the slit, one freedom contaging

into another,



or



document of violence. (I used



to call you the Big Bad Blond Wolf.) You could

think: streamers twisting in a birthday wind. You could

think: the empty chorus mouths, you could

think: curtains you could turn sideways and



slip through. Behind that red curtain waits Abraham,

your lover, a commuter rocket to Mars. Flack mouth in a

Red world. I will meet you there.




Click this link<http://www.artlies.org/_issues/49/reviews/barreiro.fontana.jpg>to
view Lucio
Fontana's “Spatial Concept, Waiting.”




*Farren Stanley*'s place-of-origin is Santa Fe, New Mexico, though her heart
has followed her body to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where she is a MFA candidate
in Poetry and Editor of *Black Warrior Review*. She lives under a massive
Magnolia tree with a dog, a cat, seven orchids and the occasional lizard.
Her work is published or forthcoming in *Marginalia*, *Caketrain*,
*H_NGM_N*and at Greying Ghost Press.


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