ࡱ> UWT?bjbjVV8<<7Lf||||WWW$:WWWWW||WWWW||WWWWW|U WW0WWWW(WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW( : PARALLEL RIVERTIME CRAIG CZURY Many of these poems have appeared in various forms in the following magazines: Endless Mountains Review, Ergo, Five Fingers Review, La Isla de Barataria (Argentina. Spanish translation: Juan Amador), North American Ideophonics Annual, Puerto del Sol, Stetoskop (France. Russian translation by Irina Mashinskaia), Texture, Poberezhye (U.S.A. Russian translation by Irina Mashinskaia), Vestnik Sovremennogo Iskusstva (Russia. Russian translation: Irina Mashinskaia),Washington Review. AT THE MUSEO, along with its Spanish translation by Juan Amador, is part of a Flamenco Poetry Performance featuring guitarist Paco Molinero, H.T., Juan Amador and Czury. Various pieces from AT THE MUSEO were performed as a Con(tra)versacin with the poetry of H.T.at the Montserrat Caf Literario in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1995. ANCIENT TEXTS are poem fusions from childrens original games written by Forest City and Lorane Elementary 4th graders (Forest City, Pa. & Exeter Township, Reading, Pa.), and Fairview and South Elementary 3rd graders (Dover, De.). THROUGH THIS WORLD was nominated for a 1996 Pushcart Prize by the editors of the Five Fingers Review. for Ian without this tangle of silt water fails THROUGH THIS WORLD how is it we float we dont how is it we stay afloat without using our arms we dont how is it were up to our necks and dont sink further weve already and dont fall all the way through without using our yes we do only our heads you think then how is it with you on the opposite bank under the opposite bank [a rooster crows inside the river] ONCE in the shadow of coal mines my father used to talk to god at the white rock overlooking the highway to the lake and once i used to when my girlfriend was pregnant at the edge of that lake a lot of staring at his face in rock a lot of staring at my face in water condemned to this meal THE BRIDGE we like to show you as weve imagined resplendent width of air crossing water across air the span weight of to the right a beginning to the left we have beginning any notion of god beyond this space we like to show you the hold and letting go each way against the which on most days is not the by way of stepping FOR YEARS i look at people in the eyes to see if theres somebody in there wide digital almost sky with the strength of an answer almost a hope in how vast and curious in the same place the same troubled half-squint faraway like a question or tedious wish to be somewhere like last night left over from something forgotten and seen inside a book looking up carried into a smile i saw you with my same eyes we were tired and old . WALKING AROUND it was almost morning and i wanted to crawl back in with you where we sleep alongside the jetty but the tide had come up just about covering the stones with sand and i couldnt find our bed i was surprised the sea washes over us when we sleep and started digging with my hands then pounding the wet sand for you to open up let me slide in beside you scratching and pounding the sand calling your name to wake up but it was my sisters name i was calling and i woke up knowing it hadnt been you i loved all those years in your house along the shore go back to sleep NO SIDE ROAD no houses no one waiting with car horse maybe footpath to a mountain village small hut herd the way fronds break brown around the bottom of these trees this mans shirt trousers dirt-grooved way from the back his face in the rearview mirror no look maybe iguana tree where the bus slows sudden no bicycle no one waiting with burro this man steps way from the back down no word off into only the born here know AT THE MUSEO he noticed there were birds so cocked the flick of a match set them off (at this hour) as if the trees the grass the stones the river the sleep down or across at this hour an oven door as if slammed everything collapsed houseuponhouseuponhouseup scavenged out of dirt hills corrugated tin cinderblock rivera kahlo trotsky there is still one sultry woman in the air singing blu es at this hour in filadelfia sequierosdeath round voluptuous orozco dancing with whores in the street brawling with drunks in the saloon single-handed somewhere i am at the center only the dead cast no shadow (children of B movies and crazy people) the frayed rugs like home hung in their dust theres H riding to work sidesaddle in her frock theres the kid on his hind legs pawing the air the door (just like home) cut rough painted on top of the wall THEN I CAUGHT THE RIVER tide out and crossed for two days i couldnt step through i had to backtrack to the highway around how i saw crossing in my head i made everyones life miserable blaming the full moon it wasnt how i saw it in my head i should have just sat down on the rocks and waited there was too much sun too much blue sweeping the dirt clean on the other side who i used to be roving with dogs in that village i couldnt get back the way i saw it in my head every way i heard different was a war like you said in the dream it was perfect i sounded like a monster for two days i sounded like a nightmare trying to cross over to who i used to be in my head miserable and perfect non sequitur VANISHING POINT between two hard consonants resonance dissonance i close my eyes jack building a roof to his house the length of this window  EMBED Word.Picture.8  i close my eyes ill carry these words between us until ) ( even the gender of words at their vanishing point vaso en arena i hear your name in a story of the sea crematorium smoke against an incoming cold front sky with no hair net no trampoline ~o if it were as simple as tiny wheels system of pulleys to alleviate the weight each word a galaxy of moons absorbed in their own light crucifix of tides in an election year at the school board meeting in those giddy moments of talk after love skin would not sound like stone AFTERWARD in this dream dad youre twenty years dead and when i woke up theres a knock at the door and youre standing there with a tan and and over seven months i tell you were dead when the door knocked and im dreaming you standing somewhere from sun with the woman im sleeping with under your arm but it could have been anybodys house when i leave and dont wake her closer to you before the house dissolves 4 OCLOCK (nelda) to weep against the sea and to call out its ok in another name to cross over your own now to raise your arm against the air to let go which is the sky waving your arm its time against the ceiling of the chemo ward to let go slipping your hand inside your gown against the sea touching yourself to cross over down there feeling around who is in there to let go let go ONE YEAR LATER its true death doesnt fully kick in for a year but this wasnt what i was talking about on purpose i dragged my bed out to the sand as if you can really choose who you come from the way they sound except there were never any books and the old ones who fed us we never saw again only in dreams do you want me to take you shopping mom no i want to shoot pool but this isnt what i was talking about the sky opens the diameter of a mail slot and the sun orange of a childs wheel behind the sea hesitated once it almost got midway up AGAIN so many possibilities these stones when the river wears down its wall there were no maps only bird wings the blessed mother mary sitting in a tree mysterious seaglass ground to a smooth blue eyeball nothing stands alone in water the boat circles dark portuguese hair and circles like a leaf with a woman sunning nude below the surface what form does my body take to leave behind these folds ANCIENT TEXTS - FOREST CITY it seamed like picker bushes wrapped around me they were pulling me in then i heard that noise again it had dead birds and a dead cat in it and there was a sewing machine bullet holes in the rusty car doors the coal was hard on my shoes and newspapers from 1937 only worse something was holding me back but the door was open there were no steps to get down there only a broken window against the wall we were sending things over the pipe but i couldnt get through i was soaked and my shirt got ripped it was near the projects there were chalk drawings all over it and what looked to be a ribcage ANCIENT TEXTS - LORANE as you draw on the walls pretend youre on a balance beam the further you go be careful of the chestnuts they have prickly shells your mom is putting on a shell necklace trees fall people scream and kiss only you and your dog deeper into the wood grind the bark try to fly like a bird pretend youre writing a letter to someone a bird grabs a rope and lifts your sister to the roof ANCIENT TEXTS FAIRVIEW at night sneak around to the tallest tree in the neighborhood hang curtains on the hole for a door nothing happens until it breaks ANCIENT TEXTS - DOVER i acted like i could read my friends minds there is a present coming to you and it is heavy and wrapped you need some string a bowl a shovel lay a bowl of apples on a tree branch with a string dig a hole in the path with a cardboard over it draw a picture of your pet and drop it into a jug you need a sheet of cardboard covered with dirt then invite the amish kids over i was the one with the flashlight acting like i was crying ANCIENT TEXTS - MOOSIC you need rocks water a stick you need a door with a lock a closet a bed you need 3 ignorant brothers 1 old grandfather trees outside your window old stone steps a can of spray paint birds flying around you need a fallen tree a blanket two moth balls a giant rock in the stream in the woods a waterfall [stanza] train tracks you need people telling you what to do a tall hill with a path a dike along the river pine smell you need a lot of sticks a fire big white rocks WITHOUT TRYING you forget when the time returns or your time returns everything youve already climbed among the highest limbs wrapped in cowbells flag from a tattered country waving the traffic of a tree beyond traffic of the development beyond sticks parallel rivertime in the newspaper a statistic you are waving from the highest nonexistent limb a long time no one else  "78;< 5 7 E G P  . 1 =  : ; = H L M deop hOJQJjhOJQJUhXACJOJQJaJhXA6OJQJ^JhXACJOJQJ^JaJhXACJOJQJ^JhXACJOJQJ^JaJhXAOJQJ^J:     !"./0123456 dh1$gd $dh1$a$gd \dh1$^\gd6789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJK $1$a$gd$ dh1$^ a$gd \1$^\gd$\1$^\`a$gd \dh1$^\gdK0 1 j k l \1$^\gd 1$^gd01$^`0gd (1$`(gdD1$^`Dgd1$gdH1$^H`gd 1$`gd    \1$^\gd pdh1$`pgd$pdh1$`pa$gd1$gd   . : ; < = > ? @ A B C D E F G H I J  dh1$^ gd$ dh1$^ a$gd $dh1$a$gd \1$^\gd  dh1$` gd $dh1$`$gdJ K L M N O P Q R S T U V i j k ~ CPpdh1$^p`gd$pdh1$^p`a$gd  dh1$^ gdP_l$ dh1$^ a$gd  dh1$^ gdp0dh1$^p`0gdpdh1$^p`gd@dg| !"#$%&1$gd \dh1$^\gd  dh1$^ gd&'()*+,-./0123>?fz |dh1$^ `|gdHdh1$^H`gd pdh1$^pgd  dh1$^ gd$ dh1$^ a$gd1$gd "Abn$Hdh1$^H`a$gd$ dh1$^ a$gd  dh1$^ gd pdh1$^pgd |dh1$^ `|gd34Omn12OeHDdh1$^H`Dgd Hdh1$^Hgdeklmnoqrstuvwxy dh1$`gd  dh1$^ gd \1$^\gd $\1$^\a$gd  dh1$^ gd$ dh1$^ a$gd$Hdh1$^Ha$gd.J (S$\dh1$^\a$gd dh1$gd dh1$`gd dh1$`gdNQdh1$^`gd dh1$^gd$dh1$^a$gd dh1$]^ gd"#$%&'(67 dh1$^gd dh1$^gd \dh1$^\gd$dh1$^a$gd789:oBndh1$^`gddh1$^`gd%&'(PQRS|$dh1$^`a$gddh1$^`gddh1$^`gddh1$^`gd$dh1$^`a$gddh1$^`gd0123Wxdh1$^x`gddh1$^`gd(dh1$^`(gddh1$^`gddh1$^`gd$dh1$^`a$gd@[\]^_`abcde}~7Y Tdh1$^Tgd1$gddh1$^`gdxdh1$^x`gd>d&RSTUVWXYZ Hdh1$^Hgd$Hdh1$^Ha$gd1$gd dh1$^gd Tdh1$^Tgd    S T !K!!!!!!!8"B"r"s"""""" # 1$^gd dh1$^gd Z$[$(A)33 4445m<u<?̳̥̾̾̾̾hXACJOJQJ^JaJhXA6OJQJ^JhXACJOJQJ^JaJhXAOJQJ^JjhOJQJUjoQ hOJQJUjoQ hOJQJUV #!#"###$#%#&#'#(#)#<#=#>#S#b#t#######$%$0$  dh1$^ gd dh1$]^ gd$dh1$^a$gd0$P$Q$R$S$T$U$V$W$X$Y$Z$[$\$]$^$_$`$a$b$ Tdh1$`Tgd dh1$`gd$Hdh1$^Ha$gd$, dh1$^, a$gd dh1$]^ gd  dh1$^ gdb$l$m$n$$$$$$$%2%c%%%%%&&&&&& \dh1$^\gd Hdh1$^Hgd  dh1$^ gd  dh1$` gd& & & & & &&&&&&&&&&.&;&H(dh1$^H`(gd pdh1$`pgd (dh1$`(gd dh1$^gddh1$]^gd$dh1$]a$gd1$gd$\dh1$^\a$gd;&<&T&|&&&&'R'}'''''''''''''''''' Hdh1$^HgdH(dh1$^H`(gd''''''' (2(=(^(((((((')B)j))))))Tdh1$^`Tgd Hdh1$^Hgd)))))))* * *"*#*2*A*V*yyy 0dh1$]^ `0gd dh1$]^ `gd dh1$]^ gd$dh1$]a$gd dh1$`gd Hdh1$^Hgd  dh1$^ gd1$gd1$^`gdV*W** +)+B+`+a++++++xxx tdh1$]^ `tgd\tdh1$^\`tgd dh1$]^ `gd dh1$^ `gd  dh1$]^ ` gd  dh1$^ ` gd 0dh1$]^ `0gd ++ , ,,5,6,C,P,f,~,,,,,,,, dh1$^gd  dh1$]^ ` gd dh1$^ `gd dh1$`gd  dh1$]^ ` gd Ldh1$]^ `Lgd,,,,,,,(-@-A----.l.m..../3/4/Z////30400 dh1$^gd000000000000000000dh1$^`gd`dh1$^``gd dh1$^gd 1$^gd$dh1$^a$gd dh1$^gd01l1m1111G22222233k3333333333$dh1$^a$gd dh1$^gddh1$^`gd33333333333333 4444M4N4444 dh1$^gd$dh1$^a$gdtdh1$^`tgd$dh1$^a$gd4444444444444444555555 dh1$^gd$dh1$^a$gd$dh1$^a$gd dh1$^gd5/50515r5s55555566-6_6667777c7 1$^gd dh1$^gd 1$^gd dh1$gd1$gd dh1$^gd$dh1$^$`gdc7d77777868788898:8;8<8=8Y8Z8[8 dh1$^gd$dh1$^a$gd  dh1$^ gd1$gd$dh1$]^a$gd dh1$^gd 1$^gd dh1$^gd[8\8]8^8u88888888M9999:A:B::::&;q;x;; dh1$^gd dh1$^gd dh1$^gd;;;<v<w<<<= =8=O=Z=[====>>>>>>>> > >  dh1$^ gd dh1$^gd > > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>->.>1><>R>g> 8dh1$^ `8gd  dh1$^ gdg>r>>>>>>??2?O?o?????????  dh1$^ gd 8dh1$^ `8gd6PP/ =!"#$% Dp  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKMNOPQRSV[YZ\l]_`abcdefghijkRoot Entry  FNU X@ Data LWordDocument 8ObjectPool ZU NU _1366276277 FZU ZU PIC dMETA PICT    !"$dw4 `w   8 . - 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