OBEYED DILEMMA by JUKKA-PEKKA KERVINEN
EILEEN TABIOS Reviewsobeyed dilemma by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen
(xPress(ed), Espoo, 2005)
[First published in The Secret Lives of Punctuations by Eileen Tabios, xPress(ed), 2006]
PARENTHETICALS
“(problem margin mad hymn optical slaying”
—from obeyed dilemma by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen
(as if the number of carats is symbolic)
(although the audacity of the cruelty was not his primary concern)
(imagine that caravan of hags)
(actually, can waves be gothic?)
(expensive bone, that ivory)
(why wouldn’t the sea swallow gold coins since they glint?)
(what is nullified when butter melts)
(though it is the hunted, coral warns)
(even false witches can samba)
(she’s always bullish on the bogus, e.g. “knight or monk, or vice versa”)
(cooks lacking insurance!)
(‘twas the first time she sewed for bit maps)
(dungeons: a waste of marble)
(regret a kingdom with unknown borders)
(she means, the marrow of obliquity)
(forgiveness become brass coin)
(snow rents the night sky to maximize the clarity of a flood losing its center)
(is it not impossible for a decade to weep?)
(oh, the awkwardness of trust!)
(she’s always spawning margins)
(will he ever find a flavorless alley)
(but a tobacco hiccup usually enhances the pinprick’s wake)
(never again will he consider peas erotic)
(magenta does not exist in Geneva)
PROCESS NOTE:
“Parentheticals” was created from handwritten reactions on each page of Jukka-Pekka Kervinen’s collection, obeyed dilemma (xPress(ed). In transcribing the poems into a typed manuscript, I found that I couldn’t read much of my handwriting…so that the poem is actually comprised of secondary parentheticals from the original parentheticals to Kervinen’s text .
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Eileen Tabios HEARTS wine, dogs and Thou.
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