August 2022
Bio Note: My most recent title is Nightshades released earlier this year. Forthcoming publications include "Black Lightning," taken by The Wallace Stevens Journal to appear in 2023; La Citta Immaginaria, on "Wilde's Tomb," (lacittaimmaginaria.com/tag/michael-gessner/) and Danse Macabre posted some poems last month. Terminus The Pastoral, a novella will be out in ebook within a few months from an Australian publisher, and another novella set in Degas' Paris should be completed by the end of the year. In the meantime, here is a summer poem about the primacy of biological ensembles, the body's communications, and perhaps, a different view of the nature of language itself.
Vegas Pool Girls
The scholars of the body have arrived, dolled up in tropical colors, sprawling in lawn chairs in anticipation of the linguists’ conference, translators of poses and lotions, confident and wise, dreamy-eyed bodies themselves in perfect motion, as if shape, contour and line exist independent of mind.
This poem was first included in the collection Surfaces, (March Street Press, 2006).
©2022 Michael Gessner
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