{"id":1109,"date":"2016-09-24T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2021-08-06T16:03:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T16:03:49","slug":"magrittes-golconda-as-treatise-on-post-traumatic-stress-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/2016\/09\/24\/magrittes-golconda-as-treatise-on-post-traumatic-stress-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"3 poems"},"content":{"rendered":"

MAGRITTE\u2019S GOLCONDA<\/em> AS TREATISE ON POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER I<\/p>\n

Another kingdom in ruin that doesn\u2019t know it yet.
No rustle of coattails. No echo of footsteps.<\/p>\n

No murmurs, no car horns, no breeze\u2014
only the sweet scent of Brylcreem and a deluge of men<\/p>\n

on the city skyline: a dark fog of suits
bowler hat after bowler hat, levitating<\/p>\n

as if rain stopped midair. They tuck pocket watches
into waistcoats, shift valises from one hand to the other,<\/p>\n

begin to tap their Wingtips on thin air.
Everyone has somewhere to be.<\/p>\n

Below, people bump into walls.
In a fit of confusion, men forget how to read<\/p>\n

the sky, how to read their lover\u2019s face.
They slosh dirty vermouth, smoke cigars,<\/p>\n

stumble into dark apartments, and sleep
beside strange wives.<\/p>\n

At sun-up, barbers sharpen razors on leather strops,
frowning at the knotted weir of sky above them.<\/p>\n\n\n

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MAGRITTE\u2019S GOLCONDA<\/em> AS TREATISE ON POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER II<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In this dream           a barrage of men           leaden the sky <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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as if dropped     from a squadron           of kittyhawks <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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a horizon of          trench coats            spitshined          valises <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In this dream                        rainslick men <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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in gray flannel suits       disappear behind        a smoke screen <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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of cigar fog         drowned out          by the clamor         of   stenographers <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In this dream              the dream                disappears <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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the dream        detonates            the dream loops <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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the dream sleeps                    underground <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THIS BODY FIXED IN PLACE <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Woman as granite          as poppy hillside            sharp as grassfire <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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quantum shimmer                blurred edges <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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an indigo study       of blue       of violet       of blue <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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woman as fog on water       as nebula       as chalcedony <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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willow bark tincture              hazel catkin <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For you          I take vows       in the abbey          of restraint <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I stay              staying          still <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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an oak       on   oak savanna                I walk towards <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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open     I open          I keep       opening          keep   keeping <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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H.K. Hummel<\/strong> has published two chapbooks, Boytreebird (2013), and Handmade Boats (2010), as well as poems in a variety of journals such as Iron Horse Review, Booth, Flyway, Meridian,<\/em> and Antigonish Review.<\/em> She founded the literary journal, Blood Orange Review,<\/em> and she is a Visiting Assistant Professor of poetry at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MAGRITTE\u2019S GOLCONDA AS TREATISE ON POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER I Another kingdom in ruin that doesn\u2019t know it yet. No rustle of coattails. No echo of footsteps. No murmurs, no car horns, no breeze\u2014only the sweet scent of Brylcreem and a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2253,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions\/2253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}