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MARNE KILATES
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Antinostalgia & the Tokhang
Rhapsodies
from
Antinostalgia & the Tokhang
Rhapsodies
From Mga Biyahe, Mga Estasyon
From Journeys, Junctions
(a collection of travel poems)
from
Antinostalgia & the Tokhang
Rhapsodies
Poems 2022
Poems 2022
Poems 2022
Poems 2022
From Mga Biyahe, Mga Estasyon
From Journeys, Junctions
(a collection of travel poems)
From Mga Biyahe, Mga Estasyon
From Journeys, Junctions
(a collection of travel poems)
From Mga Biyahe, Mga Estasyon
From Journeys, Junctions
(a collection of travel poems)
From Mga Biyahe, Mga Estasyon
From Journeys, Junctions
(a collection of travel poems)
From Mga Biyahe, Mga Estasyon
From Journeys, Junctions
(a collection of travel poems)
From Mga Biyahe, Mga Estasyon
From Journeys, Junctions
(a collection of travel poems)
From Mga Biyahe, Mga Estasyon
From Journeys, Junctions
(a collection of travel poems)
De Chirico's Portrait of Poets
What nostalgia could a poet possibly have?
Every past is present to him: every street
And public square the childhood yard he’d left
For which he keeps hankering in the present
By his words that are always stale like
Yesterday’s news brittle decrepit a wrapping
For dried fish he’d preserved like the fragile
Heart he protects inside the silver gills
Of the spoiled scad he pinned to an obelisk
And autumn is falling in space with its
Brown colors the veined network of leaf
Floating among the columns of an arcade
The riddle of a girl wheeling her hoop
Both shadow and silhouette towards an empty
Wagon towards the shadow of her death
The hint of a horseman always arriving
Or leaving the frame: in ignominy and shame
Furtive in the dusk like the poet in both
His audacity and cowardice: the philosopher
Confusing the epistemology of his portrait
In marble and the mannequin’s stitched waist
Which is also the poet’s bust both
Flint and flesh French and Greek sitting
On the plinth de Chirico imagined
Inside his harlequin brain where a dry
Fountain stands on the empty square behind
The Ray-Ban dark of Apolinaire’s sunglasses.
Marne Kilates
13 October 2014; Rev. 19 Nov 2018
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Giorgio de Chirico: (From top left)
The Philosopjher Poet. The Nostalgia of Poets,
and Mystery & Melancholy of a Street
