Eileen Tabios







Funny Brass

Dawn

(like my puppy)

penetrates eyelash drapes

Man becomes

woman

by losing aloofness

“Monotone” transforms to “moonstone”

Go forth and prettily miscalculate

March

Grey men

falling

……../ fading

to “greyness of stone”

even as the angle of the sun

“cuts the whole lot in half”

In the distance, a noonday cannon

/ canon

scatters pigeons

Consequence

A breakfast of rain

…………………….oil-silk umbrella

“Count stars for me”

Your

indisputably male voice

roared through my veins

and brain,

you pugilist of intellect

Where is my coffin --

its succoring bed?

Religion (Poe Meets Brancusi)

When nightingales reign

over all clowns

scythes shall melt before mystics

as God reveals himself

thin-ankled but

a peasant

Futurism

The truants of heaven

possess a startling velocity

Bowery

……..Is …….this…….a

bomb……or……cloud……or

…footnote…..or …..pornography

or……hiccup……or……sugar

…or “the ruined body of poor people”

……..or…….Eileen R. Tabios…..or

undeserved fanfare…….or….apple

delivered to Eve……or…..painting

on diaper……or…..the nature of

slyness…….or …..ecstasy….or

…….vermilion

……………………………………….vermilion

……………………..vermilion

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verMILION

VERMILION

VERMILION

VERMILION

VERMILION

Parenthetical

Coax

lullabyes

from tin cans

long emptied, rusting

Eileen R. Tabios has written 10 books of poetry, as well as a collection of art essays and a book of short stories.  She has edited or co-edited five books of poetry, fiction and essays.  In 2005, she released the multi-genre collection I Take Thee, English, For My Beloved (Marsh Hawk Press, New York) which features poems, an experimental novel, an art monograph, play, and poetics prose.  In 2006, she releases a new poetry collection, The Secret Lives of Punctuations, Vol. I (xPressed, Espoo).  She writes the poetics blog, The Blind Chatelaine's Poker Poetics, while steering Meritage Press.  She is the Poet Laureate for Dutch Henry Winery in St. Helena, CA where, as a budding vintner, she is arduously and long-sufferingly researching the poetry of wine. 

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