{"id":4201,"date":"2013-09-08T02:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T02:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sporkpress.com\/?p=4201"},"modified":"2013-09-08T02:00:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T02:00:40","slug":"from-on-the-architecture-leora-fridman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/2013\/09\/08\/from-on-the-architecture-leora-fridman\/","title":{"rendered":"From On The Architecture || Leora Fridman"},"content":{"rendered":"

ON THE ARCHITECTURE<\/strong>
\n 
\nworkmen come to find me
\nback behind the old retreat
\n 
\nwhere we spoof the clinging children
\nand toughen up their feet
\n 
\nto finesse their eco-records
\nmake uniform their hands
\n 
\nto show them any body
\nsways as it descends
\n 
\nI direct kids pointing
\nto bring stress to their skin
\n 
\nthere has been so much impact
\nof wires inside this grass
\n 
\nthat more delicate nerve-ends
\nfasten belts and sin
\n 
\nin a land still so well built
\nmocking birds call from the fence
\n 
\nand we visit the drilling station
\nwhere feelings waddle on pelts
\n 
\n 
\n______________________
\nON THE ARCHITECTURE<\/strong>
\n 
\n 
\nfortunately no one is
\n 
\nalso happy for me, this
\n 
\npretty lady on a cruise,
\n 
\nI have come to believe
\n 
\nthis land grows bulk
\n 
\n 
\nI sailed out because I heard
\n 
\nwe were thinning
\n 
\nas more sofas amass
\n 
\nmore people withstand
\n 
\n 
\nI arrive as a savior of martyrs
\n 
\nas I age out
\n 
\nof deserving rest
\n 
\nI invite into the room my smallness
\n 
\n 
\nyou may also return to me
\n 
\nunsympathetic to standing
\n 
\nyou can know me as sat
\n 
\nyou can know me as I had luck here
\n 
\nas I wasn\u2019t so seemly
\n 
\nor the ways I axed
\n 
\napropos
\n 
\n 
\n____________________
\nON THE ARCHITECTURE<\/strong>
\n 
\n 
\nmore people
\nare denying
\n 
\nwhat they know
\nabout the tides
\n 
\nwhat buds
\nhave a blind spot
\n 
\nwhat network
\nalerts the eyes
\n 
\nwired for framing
\nwhat cruelty we caught
\n 
\nis there a real remedy
\nor any people allied
\n 
\nnot knowing so keeping
\ninspections on file
\n 
\nrifling through collapses
\nto make it worth your while
\n 
\n 
\n___________________
\nON THE ARCHITECTURE<\/strong>
\n 
\n 
\nwhat goes tacky in the body
\nwhen drilling has a hand
\n 
\n 
\nin making everyone listen
\nto growth and being grand
\n 
\n 
\nwhen drilling has to call us
\nback from the sad motel
\n 
\n 
\nto stick us to our stories
\nif that makes an amend
\n 
\n 
\ntell us we are unwelcome
\nto believe we comprehend
\n 
\n 
\ndemands we end the wilting
\ndemands we hold up our end
\n 
\n 
\ndown again with the supple
\nif laughter has a gland
\n 
\n 
\nwhat goes quite that tacky
\nwhen we sag back to land
\n 
\n 
\n____________________\u2003
\nON THE ARCHITECTURE<\/strong>
\n 
\n 
\nI can feel us folding
\ntrading matters-of-fact
\n 
\n 
\nI have come to waddle
\ninto an unsure act
\n 
\n 
\nwhat else was riding with us
\nwhen we went market-based
\n 
\n 
\n 
\nwho was bringing the worthwhile
\nwhen we delivered rest
\n 
\n 
\n 
\n 
\neveryone was waiting
\nto have a guarantee
\n 
\n 
\n 
\nwas anticipating adapting
\nto wires over the sea
\n 
\n 
\n___________________________________________________________
\nLeora Fridman<\/strong> is a writer, translator and educator living in Massachusetts. Her chapbook Precious Coast <\/em>is forthcoming from H_NGM_N Books, and her chapbook of translations of Eduardo Mil\u00e1n is available from Toad Press. She is an MFA candidate at the UMass Amherst Program for Poets and Writers where she is Assistant Director of the Juniper Institute and co-curates the jubilat\/Jones Reading Series.
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