The Rainbow Woman

The blue woman~alive

knows the meaning of things

and the hue of His visions.

Thinks to survive.

Absently slipping her sight at the edge

of the reality~

ruins, cracked mountains, and

rolling rocky rains

when the divine penetrates her within.

Her womb grows

to hide a new symphony of feelings.

She tries to face death and sin.

Bluish face for a falling tear

that becomes a magnifying glass.

Ear to hear the rhythm of the seconds as they pass.

Orange, red beret to pulse

in the hard, violet air.

Winds whispering old songs

in her summery, green hair.

This woman is questioning herself

if love can disfigure, 

can play havoc with, can vitiate, or can torpedo her essence.

She learned not to trust, 

but to think and to keep it for herself

because she knows that, in the missing Light, 

the words can become

silvery dust for a fight~

while shooting and jeering.

On her lips, the silence waits to explode.

Has a flamed, red shine.

There is nothing to destroy.

' Tis only a tomography of the spirit ~

her innocent jealousy and passion.

Note:  The Rainbow Woman is an ekphrastic poem that engages with the painting ‘’ Woman with a Beret, Red-Orange 1938” by Pablo Picasso.

Losing Sephira

The sounds made spiky, jagged 

angles. They were like deep water 

gushed up 

through three mouths. The woman 

slowly moved her head 

from side to side. She lost 

her right sight, nor could she

recognize the chasm 

around. She tried to dance 

her legs while wearing a weary dress. Her 

blues partner was 

indistinguishable. She appeared 

to be in love with him. 

She needed to feel 

changed by 

this healing power. She felt 

his left hand gently caressing 

her breasts

while talking about 

her wistfulness as about a solitary stone 

in the sea. An angel having 

a white wing

and a black one

approached to help her find 

the balance between life and death.

This angel remained behind 

the right edge of the window 

on her bloodied wall. In the mirror 

of time, her white and black face

skin cracked.

Her soul was 

old, though still pure 

while trying to

crawl out from its 

hiding chaos. It was the end 

of the summer, and

the Arctic terns flew south 

to spend their 

next future 

on a pack of ice.

Note: Sefira is an emanation in Kabbalah, “through which Ein Sof ("infinite space") reveals itself.’’(Wikipedia)

An Antique Beauty

This antique mirror doesn't feed 

my confidence. Its concave surface 

reveals some magic tricks 

due to a red reflection. Some hair curlers

and the irons are there to fancy 

some underclothing -

your swimmers' strap underwear 

and her bust body underwear slips. 

‘Tis a new style.

I feel anguish when I touch 

the push-pull-rotate door locks

of the bathroom. The picture

of an antique statue 

is hidden in between 

all those things. She enters 

the mirror to kiss you 

every time you gaze upon yourself

in the mirror 

and start shaving. Like a jelly candy 

seems to be her lipstick 

on that silver, but 

I don't want to taste it. It means bitterness to me

this fantasy of yours. These compressed 

shapes of smiling lips look like isoquants or  

indifference curves. I want 

to leave you. 

What do you think? 

When I wash it, the water 

that drips from this mirror looks like 

the crimson blood. Scary 

optical illusions split the reality 

into two variants through my woe

to create a much looser 

and less direct relationship

between us than ever. You 

live for your comfort 

and versatility. You cannot change it.

Note: Indifference curves show a combination of two goods that provides equal satisfaction to an individual who has an equal preference for the various combinations.

MARIETA MAGLAS

MARIETA MAGLAS: The Oddville Press, Sybaritic Press, Silver Birch Press, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Dashboard Horus, Al-Khemia Poetica: A Women's Arts and Writing Journal, Dissident Voice, Ellerslie Books, Journal of the Akita International Haiku Network, The Queer Gaze, PentaCat Press, Coin-Operated Press, Mayari Literature, Synchronized Chaos, Prolific Press, Tuck Magazine, Southern Arizona Press, Republic Magazine, Phoenix Z Publishing, All Your Poems 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, The Cardinal Anthology Vol. 3, 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 and published 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, Women of One World, and World Poetry Reading Series Canada nominee, in 2013.