Jane Joritz-Nakagawa
4 poems
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Villanelle
i am not sure where i'm living which lines
everything has become an online game
there are times when you want to speak to a real live
...person re: your money
a most formidable defense against the pandemic
potentially a lot of bad could happen
i am not sure where i'm living which lines
i have to agree with my critics
like a house with an agreeable economic purity
there are times when you want to speak to a real live
...person re: your money
sloth and indiscipline as pathologies not personal failings
so obvious people say it's an example of circular logic
i am not sure where i'm living which lines
mobile devices video games and various web-based
...iterations
& aggressive international behavior, however well-
...intentioned
there are times when you want to speak to a real live
...person re: your money
passive subjects in a unilinear history of decline
subverted the rules when they got in the way
i am not sure where i'm living which lines
there are times when you want to speak to a real live
...person re: your money
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Rondeau
A bleakness of prosperity
temporarily the city
diminished along with the free
what others still could not quite be
terror in the majority
abstract void is rather shitty
most discerning forms of pity
now a generation of me
a bleakness of
drunken sailor very witty
looked askance a public titty
a now kind of colossal we
a vacuum into which the sea
finally becomes too gritty
a bleakness of
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Pantoum (2)
last rites knockdown rule innuendo torso
crackerjack baking powder pallor
not only could the home listener enjoy
a kind of room tone
crackerjack baking powder pallor
at a focal point created by the surrounding walls
a kind of room tone
computer music frozen in stone
at a focal point created by the surrounding walls
uncertain catalogues obscure seas of common sense
computer music frozen in stone
welding phenomenological scalpels
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Sonnet III
sallow words a
miracle of a bridge hidden by
fog where satan is the scene's
narrator and the dictionary has a spiritual
face my father went
into the army hoping
for a maiden voyage a
muddled mess that journey
became is valorized the way
domination tends to be universally
admired or a determined house increases in value
thankfully floods wipe its plates
clean and answer my question that
isn't a question
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return to sawbuck 4.1
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Jane Joritz-Nakagawa’s fifth book of poems, incidental music, is forthcoming in 2010 with BlazeVOX. Email is welcome at janenakagawa at yahoo dot com.
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Villanelle
i am not sure where i'm living which lines
everything has become an online game
there are times when you want to speak to a real live
...person re: your money
a most formidable defense against the pandemic
potentially a lot of bad could happen
i am not sure where i'm living which lines
i have to agree with my critics
like a house with an agreeable economic purity
there are times when you want to speak to a real live
...person re: your money
sloth and indiscipline as pathologies not personal failings
so obvious people say it's an example of circular logic
i am not sure where i'm living which lines
mobile devices video games and various web-based
...iterations
& aggressive international behavior, however well-
...intentioned
there are times when you want to speak to a real live
...person re: your money
passive subjects in a unilinear history of decline
subverted the rules when they got in the way
i am not sure where i'm living which lines
there are times when you want to speak to a real live
...person re: your money
**
Rondeau
A bleakness of prosperity
temporarily the city
diminished along with the free
what others still could not quite be
terror in the majority
abstract void is rather shitty
most discerning forms of pity
now a generation of me
a bleakness of
drunken sailor very witty
looked askance a public titty
a now kind of colossal we
a vacuum into which the sea
finally becomes too gritty
a bleakness of
**
Pantoum (2)
last rites knockdown rule innuendo torso
crackerjack baking powder pallor
not only could the home listener enjoy
a kind of room tone
crackerjack baking powder pallor
at a focal point created by the surrounding walls
a kind of room tone
computer music frozen in stone
at a focal point created by the surrounding walls
uncertain catalogues obscure seas of common sense
computer music frozen in stone
welding phenomenological scalpels
**
Sonnet III
sallow words a
miracle of a bridge hidden by
fog where satan is the scene's
narrator and the dictionary has a spiritual
face my father went
into the army hoping
for a maiden voyage a
muddled mess that journey
became is valorized the way
domination tends to be universally
admired or a determined house increases in value
thankfully floods wipe its plates
clean and answer my question that
isn't a question
**
return to sawbuck 4.1
**
Jane Joritz-Nakagawa’s fifth book of poems, incidental music, is forthcoming in 2010 with BlazeVOX. Email is welcome at janenakagawa at yahoo dot com.
Labels: 4.1, jane joritz-nakagawa, spring 2010
