{"id":3439,"date":"2011-11-22T07:12:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T07:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sporkpress.com\/poetry\/?p=226"},"modified":"2011-11-22T07:12:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T07:12:34","slug":"2-poems-by-kristina-marie-darling-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/2011\/11\/22\/2-poems-by-kristina-marie-darling-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Poems by Kristina Marie Darling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Footnotes to a History of the Corsage<\/strong><\/p>\n

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1.\u00a0 <\/sup>\u00a0Two of the darkest lilies, which he fastened at the shoulder of her green silk dress.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/sup>On nights like this the dance hall groaned with their erratic foxtrot.\u00a0 A phonograph spinning beneath dim chandeliers.<\/p>\n

3. <\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0“I had wanted to transcend the ordinary, with its brick houses and gardens of white crocuses.\u00a0 Now the most bourgeois ribbons gathered at my wrist.”<\/p>\n

4.<\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0 Courtship.<\/em>
\n1.\u00a0 The act, period, or art of seeking love with the intent to marry.
\n\u20202.\u00a0 A set of inherited conventions or customs.
\n\u20213.\u00a0 The solicitation of praise, favors, etc.<\/p>\n

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5.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/sup>The mural depicts her attempt to maintain a noctuary, detailing his adulation of her finer points.\u00a0 Despite numerous scholarly articles devoted to the work’s inscription, art historians have not yet discovered the fate of her milky-eyed beloved.<\/p>\n

6.<\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0 She slipped a flower in his coat pocket to preserve the ritual, its delicate structure. But before long the music stopped.\u00a0 The phonograph still spinning beneath its luminous needle.<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/sup>The film (c. 1933) follows a woman through a series of broken engagements.\u00a0 Although several attempts have been made to differentiate between the four men, the problem seems intrinsic to her own psychology.<\/p>\n

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8.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/sup>Melancholia<\/em>.\u00a0 A state of mourning for the lost object.<\/p>\n

9.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/sup>“It was then I remembered the dance hall, his ominous presentation of the corsage.\u00a0 A manicured garden held by the most intricate clasp.”<\/p>\n

10.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/sup>When she unpinned the lilies, a quiet upheaval.\u00a0 The most startling numbness in each of her fingertips.<\/p>\n

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Footnotes to a History of Psychoanalysis<\/strong><\/p>\n

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1.<\/sup>\u00a0 A lengthy message, in which she describes the analyst’s shelves of priceless Egyptian statuettes.<\/p>\n

2.<\/sup>\u00a0 In order to effectively describe the recurring dream, in which a luminous white horse appeared to her, she sent a wire after their office had closed.\u00a0 The steel dials clicking into the dark blue night.<\/p>\n

3.<\/sup>\u00a0 “Ever since I had wished for the collection, but also the role of its proprietor.\u00a0 To catalogue his little Vishnu idols and the disquieting canopic jars.”<\/p>\n

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4.<\/sup>\u00a0 Disturbance.
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5.<\/sup>\u00a0 According to Havelock Ellis, author of The World of Dreams<\/em> (1911), her luxurious chalet alone did not constitute a refuge.\u00a0 It was only after the blizzard, when the region’s telegraph wires had collapsed under ice, that she could be said to have retreated from the conflict.<\/p>\n

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6.\u00a0 <\/sup>\u00a0Every house in the province contained an elaborate display of bone china, which was rimmed with tiny black crocuses.\u00a0 Before long she found herself enthralled by the luxurious dishes.\u00a0 Her notebooks compare their dark flowers to a silhouette projected against towering snowdrifts.<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0 <\/sup>The album depicts his collection of Mediterranean sea glass and various relics from the shrines of saints.\u00a0 While several attempts have been made to recover the artifact, it is suspected to have been lost in the avalanche.<\/p>\n

8.<\/sup>\u00a0 Vorstellen<\/em>.\u00a0 Translated from the German as imagined<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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9.<\/sup>\u00a0 To reconcile the disparity between her mind and the external world, the analyst prompted her to maintain a record of these perceptions.<\/p>\n

10.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/sup>Upon examination, her small red notebook contained the most elaborate diagrams.\u00a0 Even the mountainous vistas were depicted as intricate machines.<\/p>\n

11.<\/sup>\u00a0 The message sent after their final session, in which she describes his prized statue shattered on the ledge.<\/p>\n

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Kristina Marie Darling’s fourth book, Melancholia (An Essay),<\/em> is forthcoming from Ravenna Press in 2012.\u00a0 She has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Ragdale Foundation, as well as grants from the Vermont Studio Center and the Elizabeth George Foundation.\u00a0 She is also the editor of a forthcoming anthology, narrative (dis)continuities: prose experiments by younger american writers <\/em>(Moria Books, 2012).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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