{"id":267,"date":"2020-04-30T03:09:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T03:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/15-2\/?page_id=267"},"modified":"2020-04-30T04:10:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T04:10:13","slug":"so","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/poetry\/so\/","title":{"rendered":"So"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Andrew Merecicky<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Take the moment of a cool wet hanging\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
At night\u2014a form until a body breach.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
A brief chance to forget the soul banging\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
Apart in a low rapid canyon reach,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
In other\u2019s ears, vaporous, sanguine,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
Shifting, warm as a word comes stiff\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
Approximated through desert heat, cliffs,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
Shaken red, repeatedly bend their shapes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
Then empty beneath the dim misted drape.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
Hear blue breath on a frosted window;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
Nothing gained, not window, not living trace\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
And nothing is necessarily So.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The inward eye, drugged, always haranguing,\u00a0
At last exhausts itself when nothing preached\u00a0
Affirms the life nightly lost to waiting\u00a0
Fears. What more might a verse have to teach\u00a0
If more the body wrote instead the praying\u00a0
Soul. The Pacific gorging drum teacup skiff\u00a0\u00a0
Ringing underwater bell found adrift\u00a0
Off foreign coast\u2014a cosmos of escape,\u00a0
Secret sufferings red-yoked busting nape\u00a0
Of the neck, line of nature\u2019s double blow:\u00a0
Stole of\u00a0plentied\u00a0minds, verses never sate,\u00a0
Still, nothing necessarily is So.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still harbored\u00a0God<\/em>, like a dark bruise fading,\u00a0
Prayer-hands pleading to plow heaven\u2019s white beach,\u00a0
While\u00a0Logos\u2019<\/em>\u00a0staring Form\u2014 offshore wading\u00a0
Is a green-eyed sexual skink sour peach,\u00a0
The kind of fear forgot to dreams abating\u2014\u00a0
Prophet mouths lie, buried in the holy kerchief\u2014\u00a0
Rot eats the liquid-bark,\u00a0 the\u00a0Will to Sniff!\u00a0
Madness lulled by incense and hammered grape,\u00a0
Rewrite the well-inspected Myth and ape\u00a0
What the Mask, un-bodied, obliquely shows,\u00a0
(We only know to write by rote, by rape)\u00a0
Nothing here is necessarily So.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The theatre called The Schizoid Playing:\u00a0
Leans upon unmoral perch, mistook speech,\u00a0
The Art of Hurried Insurrection Naming,\u00a0
Actors and tittering whores come to leech\u00a0
The sick, and irritate the creatures\u2019 banking.\u00a0
Join the palsied dance in winter\u2019s drifts,\u00a0
Between which each can make their pulsing shrift\u00a0
Drowned by the inane, dark pontiffs\u2019 prate:\u00a0
Evil\u2019s known here in the black hoof sulcate,\u00a0
Not in the lyric tongue by which we know\u00a0\u00a0
That such and such is the Present State\u2014\u00a0
No! Nothing necessarily is So.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through the flames, now give your idle clanging\u2014\u00a0
What? Silent? Someone else\u2019s Word beats\u00a0
Upon your back?\u00a0 Dumb before the preying\u00a0
One, Another, Whimpering God Effete.\u00a0
Enough with worship of nightly baying\u00a0
\u03a0\u03bf\u03af\u03b7\u03bc\u03b1, that well-wrought transcendent rift\u00a0
Transformed into deluge permission if\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
[The boat leaks in the darkest part of the water,]\u00a0
Drink the rest\u2014 bed down in the waterscape\u00a0
Collected to your breast, mother to the waterscape,\u00a0
Conflate all borrowed into some marred credo\u00a0
Prodigy of air and metal. Sleep\u2014forget\u00a0
Nothing is necessarily So.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rise to the noon, when the sun is a fluid hoop, 
The mouth of two gold buckets of roots, 
An authority that comes in surging\u2014thresholds 
We mouse underneath, yet another  
     \n                     origin, another\u2014 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing is necessarily So,\u00a0
Never necessarily So.\u00a0
Nothing at all is needed so.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Andrew Merecicky Take the moment of a cool wet hanging\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0At night\u2014a form until a body breach.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A brief chance to forget the soul banging\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Apart in a low rapid canyon reach,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In other\u2019s ears, vaporous, sanguine,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Shifting, warm as a word comes stiff\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Approximated through desert heat, cliffs,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Shaken red, repeatedly bend their shapes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Then empty beneath the dim misted drape.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hear… <\/p>\n

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