Nigredo
"I've returned to writing poetry after having published fairly extensively on contemporary poetics and the philosophy of language and of intentionality. My recent poetry will be appearing in upcoming issues of Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry and These!."
By Daniel Barbiero
Tuliptree leaves drop
once misidentified as gingko
shapes honed on light
grasping the senses that approach
but don't enter
The bark is ready
to slough off
a downed white oak
heartwood hollowed out
the cambium exposed
Brown detritus from the willow oak
leavings of the hornbeam
blown into ragged piles
What is mortal is real
what is real is mortal
the scandal if any doesn't lie
in the condition
but rather in the observation
in the observer
Not in the peacock's tail
arising from an oil slick
on the cobblestone
Published August 2006
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