Total Valor

      for & after Régis Bonvincino

    The spring came suddenly
    Azaleas
    But azaleas are a flower of the winter
    We are not located in the space
    São Paulo, New York, Santiago, San Francisco, Los Angeles
    The wind is singing but it is not saying anything
    Clouds seem to be sand there
    Destiny of the navigators
    "How provincial is São Paulo"
    It's okay but in the evening it begins to ache
    We were talking yesterday
          about how the fog
          sticks to the mountain
    The best part is to depart


    Nickey, Turn Off the Lights

    Such sweet abasement in undividable
    Swarm
    Who spew & crawl - Amalgam
    Courts either herself or its
    Compare, steeled
    By potions of caption -
    Presumption's dismay.
    Plunge - Else spool & be
    Unstrung, abhorring motion, sedimenting
    Thrall.




    Bio Note
      Charles Bernstein’s most recent books are My Way: Speeches and Poems, from the University of Chicago Press, and Log Rhythms, with illustrations by Susan Bee, from Granary Book. He is the editor of 99 Poets/1999: An International Poetics Symposium, a special issue of boundary 2 (Vol. 26, No. 1). Home page here.

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