Poems by Renata

Renata Treitel
 
NOW
 
Now of now, now
Of before of after
A two-string violin
Sun
Now through slatterns
Lanterns of joy
Before sense made
Sense
Senseless the birds    
Excruciating two
strings of
before stringing
Down in the dying something
Of before
After a run
Entrance of
Later sun through
slatterns
 
 
Renata Treitel
 
NOW
 
Music
Of coffee-perk
In stuffy red curtain
Smoke runs around
And stretching a jaw in a double take
Of voices
Oh yeah fine
State of Oklahoma
Look for Alexander but meet Fraser
Goody goody
Didactic
Il Cuore of intertextuality
The long-gone De Amicis  
Food for a child’s heart
children I don’t know
Who can
a white goose whiter than butter
Borrow from Dante
A text of appropriations
Who translates borrows
Borrow the burrows of semantics
Dig into a past existing in the mind
More real more real
Than this din gyred room
Stuffy
Slouched words and yawns
Bumping into each other
Eluding the ear