<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">FROM LUCIO FONTANA'S
“SPATIAL CONCEPT, WAITING” (1960) </span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"> </span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">The surface cannot hold
so just </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">give it a little tap </span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">tap tap  </span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">The shape in the distance
stretches and sighs, suggests </span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">a mountain, the fin of
some predatory </span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">fish, the encroaching
tooth, a horizon  </span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">(trees, corn) (razed
fields)  </span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">by destroying the
document you can force the eyes behind, </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">and through </span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">the document becomes
artifice and the wall, performance </span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">here you can find a
muscular red expanse and  </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">off-centered, the slit,
one freedom contaging </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">into another, </span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">or  </span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">document of violence. (I
used </span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">to call you the Big Bad
Blond Wolf.) You could </span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">think: streamers twisting
in a birthday wind. You could </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">think: the empty chorus
mouths, you could  </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">think: curtains you could
turn sideways and  </span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">slip through. Behind that
red curtain waits Abraham,  </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">your lover, a commuter
rocket to Mars. Flack mouth in a  </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">Red world. I will meet
you there.</span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"></span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"> </span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma">Click this <a href="http://www.artlies.org/_issues/49/reviews/barreiro.fontana.jpg">link</a> to view </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; ">Lucio Fontana's “Spatial Concept, Waiting.” </span></p>
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text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; "><br></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><b>Farren Stanley</b></span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">'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 <i>Black Warrior Review</i>. 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 <i>Marginalia</i>, <i>Caketrain</i>, <i>H_NGM_N</i>
and at Greying Ghost Press.</span></p>




<div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br>RealPoetik<br><a href="http://www.realpoetik.org">www.realpoetik.org</a><br>