Intermezzo,
a dream
The skyscraper built in translucent
blue glass was immersed
in Debussy’s sonata in G minor.
Comet-like others attired in black
suits
trailed along the hall diffused in blue
light
seeping in from the surreal windows.
A man in a blue checkered tweed suit
benevolent and conducive, led me
to the threshold of my new
self-contained
home across the woollen carpeted hall
towards those “Flats of Transcendence”
designated by a western arrow.
The skyscraper built in translucent
blue glass was immersed
in Debussy’s sonata in G minor.
A reminiscence
Dressed in a marine
velvet dress of my own design
with a subdued gold trim on the collar
I stood in a house immersed
in the blue minor notes
of Debussy’s sonata in G
Where my husband negotiated
in a blue-checkered tweed suit
foreign trade with an austere
noble woman who had gifted us
a pewter pitcher – an alloy
of grey tin, copper, and antimony
the emblem of our trajectory.
The stages would be challenged
by the fermentation of silo-fodder
and milk, of a fathomless framed exile.
Antagonist
The beheaded male’s wings dry up
by the arid heat, the tense
torso-engine curbed
by female spasms as she sucks the semen
into her eggs. Like the male mantis
on the angelica before the insemination
the accused is seized by an antagonist
as she interjects the virtual words
into her mouth
in each trial conducted by the male
bigot-
judges. Her life-force ceaselessly
oozes out
of her as she is condemned to her
untimely death.
Yet, the delayed decree of her martyred
life
would always be enacted in front of our
eyes
beyond the crime destroying her
innocence
beyond the mantis-evil ending her maiden-life.
Emily
Bilman, PhD is a poet-scholar who lives and writes Geneva, Switzerland.
Her dissertation, The
Psychodynamics of Poetry: Poetic Virtuality and Oedipal Sublimation in the
Poetry of T.S. Eliot and Paul Valéry, with her poetry translations, was published by Lambert Academic in 2010
and Modern Ekphrasis in 2013 by Peter Lang, CH. Her poetry books,
A Woman By A Well (2015), Resilience (2015), The Threshold of Broken Waters (2018), Apperception (2020), and The Undertow (2023) were all published
by Troubador, UK. “The Tear-Catcher” won the first prize in depth poetry by The
New York Literary Magazine and “Pathfinder” won the Polaris Trilogy Contest
and will be sent to the moon’s south pole on a time capsule by NASA. Poems were
published in Deronda Review, The
London Magazine, San Antonio Review, The Wisconsin
Review, Expanded Field, Poetics Research, The Blue
Nib, Tipton Poetry Journal, North of Oxford Journal, Otherwise Engaged
Magazine, Literary Heist, The High Window, Wild Court, Remington Review, Book
of Matches, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Poets Live Anthology 4, OxMag, San Diego
Poetry Anthology, Contemporary Poetry 2022, Ballast Journal, Soren Lit, Southern
Arizona Press Anthologies, Poetry Salzburg Review.
She blogs
on her website. http://www.emiliebilman.wix.com/emily-bilman
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