SHATTERED WINDOW ESPIONAGE

Matina L. Stamatakis

Copyright © Matina L. Stamatakis

Locofo Chaps is an imprint of Moria Books. More information can be found at www.moriapoetry.com. Locofo Chaps is dedicated to publishing politically-oriented poetry. Chicago, USA, 2017

Contents

Saint T Nicanor Parra, Where Are You? Shattered Window Espionage Leaving America For My People Of Bones Vox Populi Sleek Catastrophe Simulator Smooth Instigator Dilemma New War

Saint T Odors of you on their tongue little ones wail with warm milk still on their gums [search for a parable within these lines] heʼs ill and grandiose, a wiggle of floppy flesh heʼs smiling at her like she is fresh bait gouge the eye just so [it is out of peripheral view]

my hands are thick with the blood of others

Lucy, go home and fetch me the whip

We are asleep and dreaming of the Democracy of Was heʼs a poison we know as anesthesia

go home, Lucy, tend to your gutters

Nicanor Parra, Where Are You?

No se libra la estatua de ningún presidente

[the warm, acidic guano of pigeons]

Shattered Window Espionage The code is laced with wiretap precision

eye to phantom assassin̶dusk is full of gravediggers crouching behind trees

[Ferdinand was no great escapist]

death resembles pulverized beetroot living death resembles silenced masses in shrouds of secrecy her wounded “everywhere”

a desert̶a void

a shell

of a body

Leaving America

Dear Mr. ___ How is it you do this? Make us wait as you prescribe your own dose of hard medicine?

How do you know our birth place? [Iʼve often deported myself several times in my mind

yet return, momentarily dazed, to an irreal

America] Dear Mr. ___, a dark procession, these days─ how do you propose life? If you even?

Each star in the sky appears like a welcome catastrophe any moment, shooting forth an interminable Ice Age

Dear Mr. ___, everyone is transient and searching for a permanent home

[we wish to go home count our own stars─ thank our mothers for not dimming the lights]

For My People Of Bones

Do not say the word “crumble” or speak of islands within the self ─every fiber relies on cohesion how we remain intact

do not kiss me with that weathered dryness̶ yours is mine, mine is…

an undammed word moist on the tongue

Vox Populi

The slugs do not leave fresh wounds unlicked do not say “itʼs not a cold, dark night in Danteʼs Hell”

Imposterʼs Wardrobe!

Liver-Lipped! ─

smell of shit and ammonia

Sleek Catastrophe Simulator

An operative scene for a body:

whatʼs a body without another body to call its own?

Iʼve a lot of give in my little toe your parts are all wound up to greet me̶

thereʼs enough meat to dam a river

─bed of my hands thick with sex

someone says you are an orphaned child and I almost believe them [write it off as a misnomer]

insert you into my thumb and forefinger

youʼre not going anywhere

unless I say so

[ Iʼve been puppeteering you for years]

Smooth Instigator

Babe, as you are

a cool jazz trom- boning me with your throb

Babe, as you are a probe in my womb

vicious drone of monsters a smooth croon

oh so smooth

Dilemma

There is time to separate bone from this little hem of popping flesh the doctor said we are

just a little excruciating, indeed the middle of the night has us flustered pensive, reshaping our mouths with a twist as it resonates a damaged song like the Harpies we heard of as a child

they dig into you until there is nothing left to chew

New War from A Late Sketch of Final Doves take this new frontier for wind-worn sparrows twisted saplings & all this mottled fur

take this [drifting childless into palms weathered within this] of lips that once felt weightless in this but they ─as with everything─

taste the brine & seethe with this new now is not your love poem period is not your presence with smiles

& now our lips are exactly choirless blushed & sprouting wounds

LocofoChaps2017Eileen Tabios – To Be An Empire Is To Burn

Charles Perrone – A CAPacious Act

Francesco Levato – A Continuum of Force

Joel Chace – America’s Tin

John Goodman – Twenty Moments that Changed the World

Donna Kuhn – Don’t Say His Name

Eileen Tabios (ed.) – Puñeta: Political Pilipinx Poetry

Gabriel Gudding – Bed From Government

mIEKAL aND – Manifesto of the Moment

Garin Cycholl – Country Musics 20/20

Mary Kasimor – The Prometheus Collage

lars palm – case

Reijo Valta – Truth and Truthmp

Andrew Peterson – The Big Game is Every Night

Romeo Alcala Cruz – Archaeoteryx

John Lowther – 18 of 555

Jorge Sánchez – Now Sing

Alex Gildzen — Disco Naps & Odd Nods

Barbara Janes Reyes – Puñeta: Political Pilipinx Poetry, vol. 2

Luisa A. Igloria – Puñeta: Political Pilipinx Poetry, vol. 3

Tom Bamford – The Gag Reel

Melinda Luisa de Jesús – Humpty Drumpfty and Other

Poems

Allen Bramhall – Bleak Like Me

Kristian Carlsson – The United World of War

Roy Bentley – Men, Death, Lies

Travis Macdonald – How to Zing the Government

Kristian Carlsson – Dhaka Poems

Barbara Jane Reyes – Nevertheless, #She Persisted

Martha Deed – We Should Have Seen This Coming

Matt Hill – Yet Another Blunted Ascent

Patricia Roth Schwartz – Know Better

Melinda Luisa de Jesús – Petty Poetry for SCROTUS’ Girls,

with poems for Elizabeth Warren and Michelle Obama

Freke Räihä – Explanation model for 'Virus'

Eileen R. Tabios – Immigrant

Ronald Mars Lintz – Orange Crust & Light

John Bloomberg-Rissman – In These Days of Rage

Colin Dardis – Post-Truth Blues

Leah Mueller – Political Apnea

Naomi Buck Palagi – Imagine Renaissance

John Bloomberg-Rissman and Eileen Tabios –

Comprehending Mortality

Dan Ryan – Swamp Tales

Sheri Reda – Stubborn

Aileen Cassinetto – B & O Blues Mark Young – the veil drops Christine Stoddard — Chica/Mujer

Aileen Ibardaloza, Paul Cassinetto, and Wesley St. Jo – No

Names

Nicholas Michael Ravnikar – Liberal elite media rag. SAD! Mark Young – The Waitstaff of Mar-a-Largo Howard Yosha – Stop Armageddon Andrew and Donora Rihn – The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt – Extreme Vetting Michael Dickel – Breakfast at the End of Capitalism Tom Hibbard – Poems of Innocence and Guilt Eileen Tabios (ed.) – Menopausal Hay(na)ku

For P-Grubbers Aileen Casinnetto – Tweet Melinda Luisa de Jesús – Defying Trumplandia Carol Dorf – Some Years Ask Marthe Reed – Data Primer Carol Dorf – Some Years Ask Amy Bassin and Mark Blickley – Weathered Reports: Trump Surrogate Quotes From the Underground Nate Logan – Post-Reel Jared Schickling – Donald Trump and the Pocket Oracle Luisa A. Igloria – Check & Balance Aliki Barnstone – So That They Shall Not Say, This Is Jezebel Geneva Chao – post hope Thérèse Bachand – Sanctuary Chuck Richardson – Poesy for the Poetus. . .Our Donaldcito John M. Bellinger – The Inaugural Poems Kath Abela Wilson – The Owl Still Asking Ronald Mars Lintz – Dumped Through Agnes Martin – The Beast Turns Me Into a Tantrumbeast Melinda Luisa de Jesús – Adios, Trumplandia! Magus Magnus – Of Good Counsel Matina L. Stamatakis – Shattered Window Espionage

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