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blotter {three-dimensional-spirals}

by Richard Paez

 

 

i took a reminder

in the form

of a jagged paper square—

my chemical-communion-wafer

—a molecular-bypass

that jump-gaps my dna

with god’s.

 

 

{if you haven’t been—

it’s a quadratic drop
that burns a hole in your brain

just-wide-enough,

just-long-enough

for you to feel the electric-storm

of your beat-beating heart;

an eight-hour-eternity

of being just-enough-aware

to feel your body-cells dying—

of being just-close-enough-to-dead

to know your amperage-mortality—

to relish that static-cloud-dust

barely grasped by nerve-wire-tendons.}

 

 

i took a reminder

in the form

of a jagged paper square

bent into cube by my stomach-soul;

time is digested by gravity

and every heartbeat is slower than the last.

 

 

i-immobile

but the chemical commutes me—

from up here

with dilated pupils

—wide-eye-wonder

and finger-tip-numb—

i can see-feel everything

—eternity—

all the little whirlpools

our whisper-lives

and wading-thoughts

have spun into the currents

giving fluid-movement-meaning

to meaningless time.

 

 

{and you may not remember

the vibration-electricity

our humming-in-unison,

in-circuit,

hotwired-through-god;

but from miles away

i touch a toe to the current—

spin a little whirlpool for you

and shift my weight

just enough

to give-in

—fall-in—

and plunge stomach-soul-first

into the water.}

03/09/2004

Posted on 03/09/2004
Copyright © 2024 Richard Paez

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Michele Schottelkorb on 03/10/04 at 04:48 AM

well, then i suppose i can jump on (or is that off?) the wagon... i saw something vaguely familiar here, something from another time 9my own time)... the beauty of poetry, especially this piece, is that is can be several things at once... i see one, and the other to me could be falling in love... either way, it is worth riding several times... blessings...

Posted by Beth K Hannah on 03/11/04 at 01:32 AM

wow...this made me fall...beautiful.

Posted by Nicki McDougall on 03/12/04 at 06:06 AM

The rhythm of the blue parts were so intense I found myself reading them aloud. I love the flow and the way the dashes speed it up. It would be a terrific performance piece. I also found your links between the level of conciousness experienced with drugs and concepts of "god" and "soul" very interesting.

Posted by Kristine Briese on 04/13/04 at 10:39 PM

Wonderfully intense; it grips one by the stomach and takes him for a ride. Second and third read-through only make it more gorgeous.

Posted by Kristine Briese on 04/13/04 at 10:39 PM

Wonderfully intense; it grips one by the stomach and takes him for a ride. Second and third read-through only make it more gorgeous.

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