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http://www.yareah.com/images/bandera1_p.gifThe Six of Cups
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 Joseph F. Mailander

    poet and writer


 
Their families, known for weepy speeches,
took short naps with wristwatches on;
they folded dough, computed profit; now,
 
the aura of Aeneas, shining on the new land
like a coming coffee break, glitters,
awes them all; they sour


 
over their athletes who won their games
 
and their sisters who lost their names,
their frozen vessels, their cracked kraters,
their little fissures of age,
 
they are worn thin around the eyes;
they are worn brittly by the library;
they are worn like Lisbon statuary—
 
Everything says to them: Look forward, angel,
Even your family, even humankind;
But as for you, my real angel,
 
all your dreams and all your boats
 
all your poems and all your buttercups,
everything is a nostalgia to you and I; not a weepy one,
a nostalgia for a future that is full.
 
 
Solo Concert
 
Solitude starts off
a wounded bird, chirping
a hurt melody,
slinking away to die, unfinished;
an oxygen-deficit-driven
Czerny scale; the
practice room; a school
of velocity with no
metronome to tick off
the lost moment
 
sunnily sleeping
napping near dark in summer,
curled up
on the bed that was
your most personal lost chord,
the very last things, the very last notes,
all private to you as though
the universe's secret algorithm
were speaking to you alone,
were speaking like you alone—
you alone,
making gerunds by the sea
 
da da da the things
that come in threes are
tonic, harmonic; in four
they are regular, square; in two
there is perfect communion; but
all alone?
 
Solitude: You are tethered
to Nobody---and also
on rare
occasions, when it matters,
drowsily dropping, or intense, afire:
Everyone. You take your
time to do
the work of the world, unseen.
The audience
is all yours, breathless and
eternal. You could walk
down a sunny street, forever.

 

Joseph F. Mailander
323-240-1016

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Yareah Magazine 15

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English A new Yareah was born on February: we are searching for writers and collaborators.
bandera española Una nueva Yareah nació en Febrero: buscamos escritores y colaboradores.

We have redesigned the site and we have added new categories like opinions and movies. Now, you can directly send us your news. You just need to register, to answer the e-mail and... to publish your own news, texts or photos!
We are receiving articles, poems, reviews and short fiction and we would like to invite you to participate in this new moment for Yareah: the arts and literature magazine.

At the end of the month, we will select the most interesting pieces to make the pdf-magazine. On April, it will be titled: To Be or not to Be.
We hope you enjoy our new site and you participate in this new idea for the future.
Everybody is welcome.

Estamos recibiendo artículos, poemas, críticas y cuentos y queremos invitaros a participar en esta nueva época de Yareah, la revista de arte y literatura.
Ahora puedes enviarnos directamente tus propias noticias. Sólo necesitas registrarte, responder al email y... ¡publicar tus propias noticias, textos o fotos!
Al final del mes, seleccionaremos los textos más interesantes para confeccionar el pdf de la revista. En abril, se titulará: Ser o no Ser.
Esperamos que disfrutes en la nueva página y te atrevas a participar en ella.
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