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MARNE KILATES
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from
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)
Nonsequence
Dream Poem
Dreamed I was writing a poem
That kept getting the words
Confused all I can remember
Is the phrase Thoughts must congeal
Surely the last words roiling
In my subconscious just before I woke
I recall in the dream I was pointing
To someone walls of sheer rock
Gleaming gray in the sunlight
On a mountain behind clouds parting
And again just before I rose
From bed I thought I must take down
These notes: Poetry is often found
At the edge of precipices
4 December 2016
Picture of clown Anas al-Basha
taken by Ahmad al-Khatip/AP
Epitaph for the Clown of Aleppo
How many lines does one
Devote to laughter?
How many to the sweet
Chuckle of children
In the middle of a city’s ruin?
The walls
Continue to crumble, we inhale
Cement dust, particles of plaster,
Bits of mattresses, flakes of linoleum.
There is no letup to the shelling.
How many lines can one
Devote to candies and presents?
“He wanted to study history
But the war brought him where
He thought he was needed.”
“No one that knew him
Didn’t like him.”
​
8 December 2016
Multiple Choice
(Or What Makes A Life)
​
What makes
What takes a life?
What or who
Can take it away?
An obit says
“Natural causes”
A policeman says
“Nanlaban”
A congressman says
“Either the Chair
Or EJK”
Your neighborhood
Fascist says
“What about their
Victims?”
The official fascist says
“Kill kill kill
Or we become
A narcostate.”
Those are our
Choices. If can’t decide,
Said our ROTC
Training sergeant, say
“All of the above.”
19 March 2017
