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Codex for Berlin (Triptych: Final Flight)

These painted iron butterflies
in ecstatic desperate escape through concrete forests
Newly libertine, crying liberty;
"Wir sind frei! Wir sind frei!"
Snapshot-frozen in sculptural release -
this unnatural nature
as orgasmic organic as
their silkenwinged light-as-air invertebrate models.
This shard of chrysalid broken
stands enshrined -
witness this
metamorphosis:
"Wir sind frei!"

- .slip.
.stream. -

always: forever: now.

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On Wednesday June 13th, 2007, Solace (1420) writes:

The release is a trap - they're frozen - freedom is that capture of implied movement - we move, but we are still trapped there - so are they wings flapping eternally incessantly. We see the city in flight soaring

On Wednesday June 13th, 2007, Solace (1420) writes:

but we do not truly move from it - we move like organic butterflies - and yet frozen there as iron, forever free in those moments that metamorphise into all moments - the slip stream - the nature of time, to be one to be all encompassing

On Wednesday June 13th, 2007, Solace (1420) writes:

It is a final flight from - and yet into - as we move away we recreate - free like a piano movement to be reinterpreted a thousand times and all beautiful - frozen moments in flight...A codex to any city...marvellous.

On Thursday December 16th, 2004, anth (1621) writes:

i thought id commented on this, ...maybe i was speechless the first time, this just hurled me straight into the scene,so much going on,something different i see in this everytime

On Thursday December 16th, 2004, anth (1621) writes:

,the best poems i cant really comment on,because the images and essence they conjure in my mind are beyond description,other than the poem itself,maybe you say it best, colours without names, this is a magnificent work of art

On Friday December 17th, 2004, purr_verse (1483) writes:

thank you hardly seems enough for this wonderful comment, but...thank you, truly, all the same. :)

On Wednesday June 9th, 2004, An Expired Member (73) writes:

are we?

On Tuesday May 4th, 2004, Lynaes (1148) writes:

Such striking imagery, and so profound. "These painted iron butterflies", such an orignial way with words, such words that make your poetry beautiful and wise. Gorgeous. -L

On Monday March 8th, 2004, diavolessa (276) writes:

cold, cold enough to feel your heart stop... beautiful

On Monday January 5th, 2004, Bakkhus Unbound (1119) writes:

'These painted iron butterflies in ecstatic desperate escape through concrete forests' Extremely powerful! Such eloquence w/ your poetic structures in composition...like music.

On Monday January 5th, 2004, Bakkhus Unbound (1119) writes:

'always: forever: now...' as the beauty & eccentricities of your amazing poetic style flows in rhythmic concentric inversed circles...

On Monday January 5th, 2004, sole (117) writes:

Color me speechless. I've read all 4 parts purr and I just really don't know what to say other than it was my pleasure to read them. All I can do is admire it for what it is, absolutely outstanding poetry. Take a bow.

On Sunday January 4th, 2004, Exodus (224) writes:

I agree with Bast....This is quite amazing...Well done...I'm seriously considering adding this to my favorites...

On Sunday January 4th, 2004, Bast (1007) writes:

terrible and cold... like ice down the back.... ::shivers:: and bitterly beautiful, like the ruins in Germany on a winter's night.

On Sunday January 4th, 2004, An Expired Member (21) writes:

Ohhhh purr, this is great! Especially the two paradoxes in the middle, forms a cool bridge. The ending too, is fantastic. I can't find anything I dislike about this, sorry.

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