Senbon Zakura Mirror Dance
I had closed the
cracked window.
The first gust
of wind, flute, drums, and
fleeting
movements—
explosions and
distortions—
vanished into
the approaching rain.
It was like
slowly dancing with
the image in the
mirror, or
fragmenting
memories of love
to clear the
mind of emotions
consumed by the
summer heat.
I sat next to a
neighbor
whose husband
had been
a soldier in
Asia until
he was shot in
half.
He had always
been
among the best.
The movement
accelerated
without music,
creating tension
and
evoking feelings
of
euphoria and
chills,
similar to a
movie sequence.
The dancers wore
white sashes
around their
heads and
pirouetted at a
high tempo
to create a
lively movement.
The window
opened,
bringing the noise
of the metropolis and
the smell of the
wind.
It didn't
inflict a fatal infection
like those found
in polls or
left by lost
civilizations.
It was only a
rainy wind.
These bacteria
are real and
can transform
into weapons,
unlike in Disney
animations.
Life is not an
illusion in and of itself.
When life
becomes a hallucination,
something else
must be real.
The hailstones
hit the roof of silence.
The dancers
expressed God's numbers
by waving their
arms above their heads,
clapping wildly,
and
swaying their
bodies.
The dance did
not appear to
be
pre-choreographed.
Ancestral
emotions cleared
the mind's
clutter.
Crawled quickly
within the suffering souls
and began to
disappear.
Blind Reality
Hollow-eyed
shades
of human beings,
human beings
cogitating on
jazz music,
jazz penetrates
the deep silence
of the bleeding
angels,
angels in a
fight for
the awakening of
this blind reality,
wars,
racism,
asylums,
prostitution,
anxious women,
terrorist
attacks,
public
executions,
illegal immigration,
dengue fever,
songs, low wages,
Zika and
Chikungunya viruses,
human cells
combined with mammal fetuses,
monetization of
the objects
emblazoned
clothes & precious stones,
Islamist
militancy,
meteorite
impacts,
vegetation
fires,
crucifixions,
kidnappings,
sphinxes,
crimes,
drugs,
cocktails,
birth defects,
huge ocean
waves,
ISIS strategies,
sexual
harassments,
sales of stolen
artifacts,
multiple vortex
tornadoes,
quakes striking
near the plate boundaries,
children
murdered in egregious crackdowns,
food securities
for starving people,
changes in
refugee policies,
landslides,
Monsoon rains, new flash floods,
seasonal
unemployment,
nuclear
disasters,
smiling
volcanoes,
price increases,
naked bodies,
hairstyles,
dreams,
cubes,
glasses,
gas stations,
interim work,
glacier calving,
protests
blocking the roads,
new theatrical
triumphs,
ill kids not
displaying symptoms,
macroeconomic
policies,
silent
strategies of democracies,
different
drivers having
different styles
to run their cars,
cars blinking
their headlights
while their
motors scream,
screaming trees
and revolvers
that shoot up
walls to write lyrics,
lyrics of jazz
penetrating the silence
of the bleeding
angels,
angels in a
fight for
the awakening of
this new reality.
Bioelectromagnetic Golden Temples
Holy words to
drive off
raised thoughts,
to cut some
meanings,
to pour down all
the depths,
and to warm our
winter within.
Bloom of life
to accompany old
songs
hidden in new
hymns-
human misery and
degradation.
Sufferings to
rise up
in the air of
shrouded sanctums.
Self-bright sun
to descend from
a symbiotic sky,
every evening,
to make
everything golden-
the rivers, the
rivers, the rivers.
Hopes to be
carried home,
to be eaten like
gold.
Time to be
broken,
to be danced in
its armor-
by hurricanes,
by eternity
towards anarchy
and chaos.
MARIETA MAGLAS
MARIETA MAGLAS: The Oddville
Press, Sybaritic Press, Prolific Press, Silver Birch Press, Lothlorien Poetry
Journal, Dashboard Horus, Al-Khemia Poetica: A Women's Arts and Writing
Journal, Southern Arizona Press, Journal of the Akita International Haiku
Network, The Queer Gaze, PentaCat Press, Coin-Operated Press, Mayari
Literature, Synchronized Chaos, Republic Magazine, Ardus Publications, and
others published the poems of Marieta Maglas in anthologies like Near Kin: A
Collection of Words and Art Inspired by Octavia Estelle Butler, The Oddville
Press Summer 2018, Nancy Drew Anthology: Writing and Art Featuring Everybody's
Favorite Female Sleuth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Three Line Poetry, Tanka
Journal, and The Aquillrelle Wall of Poetry. The editor of The Aquillrelle Wall
of Poetry, Yossi Faybish edited her poetry book, Cubic Words. She is a
co-author for A Divine Madness: An Anthology of Modern Love Poetry, Enchanted-
Love Poems and Abstract Art, The Auroras and Blossoms PoArtMo Anthology: 2020
Edition, and Women of One World.
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