Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DISCORDS, by FABIO DOPLICHER


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DISCORDS, by                    
First Line: You planted life, protecting


You planted life, protecting
its soil with a net of straw.
You watched that slender trunk
without leaves or buds:
blind, it felt no shame.

The American vine spreads out,
infecting the bricks with green,
dry in the winter it sleeps
under needle-like leaves: its green
self submerged in concrete
flowerpots, neatly crossed
by the pathways of ants.

The human plant penetrates wardrobes,
double-bottomed cages of mice, of madmen.
Closed in box-like rooms, alone,
watched by perpetually blinking
televisions. A pastel-green
petal opens itself, resting
on the palm of an aged madman.

The law of the pine needles,
the balcony's fragile equilibrium,
with every gust restores its order.

Nothing is alone in those twigs,
the resin drips like birth wounds.
The silence threads itself through silence.
The silence combs the silence.

On the roof the cuttings thrust
their roots into the asbestos insulation:
other individuals, mutated,
plants of life beneath the radio antenna
which the night ignites into colloquy.
The voice is a form, an eagle
unrecognized by the enemies of earth.

On its greenest branch-top the orange tree
becomes embittered with flower after flower,
growing leaves again, a half simulation
of nature. Inside the artifice
of stone and iron it makes mistakes
for love. Though harsh, venomed
by glass, it has soft whimpers.

The bark in subtle filigree
produces a single grape,
watches itself with a solitary eye,
it breaks off. It watches her
float in the gutter, in threads
of sequence, for the longest
of instants. Such bark, clots,
knots, seed. The heart is a knot:
so many reeds, swamps of air.


Used by permission of Story Line Press.




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