Paul Ilechko - 3 POEMS

1. Quadrangle

I will use the word “quadrangle” 

          (for lack of a better word) 

          to describe the {era of not time} that was before 

          time     as we now know it           existed

before      “universe”       as we now know it existed 

as in “the quadrangle before our time existed”      

          when time (as it was then)

          was not the same thing as time is now 

          running straight and clean 🡪      in one direction 

when time was conceptual 

          and multi-dimensional      thick 

                                        with “color” and “shape”

(or analogies to what we now know as 

                                       “color” and “shape” 

                                        post-quadrangle)

when      “life”      was not the same 

as      life      as we know it now      

          but rather      >>> was energy 

          that spread itself across and around 

                    the thickness of time (as it was then) 

breathing in the color and shape of it

before “life” made a line through time 🡪  

                                                                         unknowing 

      the result   perhaps   merely of an experiment

but the line became time 

                         and the thickness was reduced 

                                             and color and shape rendered 

down to an infinity of single-mindedness 

and the collapse of that weight 

           of      {then time}      devastated the quadrangle 

and this universe was created 

narrowly clinging to the thin line of eventfulness

***

2. A Time of Spin

Theory field of medium states

                      of attention states

of assumption of rotation

as decline of spin

                   through attraction

(by reduction as impermanence

      {as to not being there}

      at the time of spinning)

“everything is magnets”

theory field of magnetic states

             as spin precludes

             through fast rotation

as a state of redaction

removal of concept

                as information precludes

                of excessive knowledge

                via false rotation

and assumption of particles

vitality lacking passion 

             where windows are edged

             in blindness of light

             inspired by rotation

reduced by redaction

                as knowledge is spin. 

***

3. And Then He Broke Down

Fragments are taken     splinters of reclamation     as we accentuate the tragic 

the ripeness of an open throat is shown as evidence     wide and flat below the lankness of his dirty hair     

for this has become a time of misunderstanding

for what we see now     is that all is defiance     in the face of punishment     all is defiance     in the face of the endgame     the shutdown     the closing

listening quietly as the voices swell in unison     as a ball is tossed from a dugout     and teammates hide inside a false camaraderie 

watch closely his strength as he peels away     a roaring of blood     a flash of elbow     a tearing and blistering     the distant smoke above the darkness of the city.