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dinner with krishna
now I am sitting
my dreams, cotton roofed
and my back, kissed by leather
but I am sitting at
tables that my grandmother only served
the dichotomy of the destroyer of worlds and the worlds destroyed
you am become death
you, the shatterer
only the grind of glass and pushing daisies follow
but I am become life
revived from the cash crop
in my tobacco leaf dress
with my domesticated hair
and my penny skin
the token at the table
high yellow sitting
wishing to scrub my blood black
and now I am stepping on the iron of throats eroded
choking down that slow swallow of cotton fuzz
and now I am sitting
hot in the winter because Turner’s burn left a fever
in my roots
that slow swallow, that deep burn
-Ana Teller, October 2017
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une pétroleuse
I’m not sure if I’m woman but I’m sure I’m no man
I see myself in negation
I see myself in myth
of paraffin
of petrol
of paris
I see myself in embers
of red in nothing
and no matter how I talk I’m always sputtering oil
because I’m sure that I’m no man
and to use my voix is to hold a match
to that crude
black liquid
I see myself in the truth
of burning paris
I see myself in the myth
of who burned paris
and I am sure that I’m no virgin but I can feel that I am red
and black and crude
I am red in nothing
and I am in negation
and I am always spitting oil
I am in visions of burning paris
cloaked in red
because to act not as man is to hold
a match
and my hands are ashen
my thumbs blistered
and I am waiting
wavering
glowing in this nothing
wavering
waiting
for the smile of red carnations to relieve me
-Ana Teller, October 2017
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Kill Your Darlings
The period at the end of a sentence, the last word on the page before you carry on to another, the buildup of plot and thought and the efforts of inner workings of the mind pouring onto the pages in handfuls of typing and the tip tap of keyboards; but it cannot all fit on one paper - not in one letter, not in one phrase or word, and it is all universal and part of you, an extension of self drawn out in black ink and dead dogwood and it is all universal.
You tell yourself to kill your darlings and you cry as you hit that backspace and you wonder if those words will ever know their worth to you, even when they don’t make the finished product.
If it is all universal then you hope one day you can spill your soul onto a single page as big as the echoing chambers of the psyche, as deep as the caverns in your throat, so that you can scream out for Godot and blame him for every lost word you’ve learned to love but never spell, then make a shrine for all the self indulgent passages that never pass revision while you wait for his reply.
-Ana Teller, May 2017
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pinhole image, insertion poem of excerpt in John Ashbery’s “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror”
the arching of time lifts cotton sheets over heads
and breaks me into the child of day
or the servant of night
or some hybrid of eclipse.
density seeps into down
and I am the product of the light
writhing in the night
adhering to this projection of self :
scribbled into the soma
written into the nerves
and she keeps it lively
and she is this room
and she is what keeps us intact
and we are tangled in the light,
and this is recurring -
the waves of circadian ticks and tocks always bring me back.
through this arrival I find departure
from the brown eyes in the mirror,
detachment from the face in the image;
I am not her.
I am upside down.
one lingers in the camera obscura and can’t tell.
I am upside down.
the soul of one being confused
for the charade of another;
I am pantomiming beams against the wall
waiting until the solid one establishes itself.
-Ana Teller, April 2017
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on the eve of my sister’s wedding
I am
gritty as a pearl
gleaming in a sand beaten oyster
glinting like cat’s eye set in gold
ringing a fourth fingered left hand
knowing true bonds can’t be set in stone
and I am set
in diamonds
cut from coal tipped words.
and she is
ridding the bouquets
of forget-me-nots
cowardice in her eyes glinting
like cat’s eye
bolded letters giving new meaning to Scaredy Cat
etched in black inside her wedding band;
the only boldness on her person a declaration of wuss.
looking at the tulle of her skirt
I wonder if she’ll ever be more than a softer counterpart
but gold was never known for its strength.
she was always the petals, never the root
I was always the stem, never the petals
never the softness, always the grit
always the quiet growing stalk pushing
the scorpion grasses up
always hidden under corollas
always reaching new heights
the perennial framework
the lasting support of lapis leaves
yet sororal roots run underneath
it all.
-Ana Teller, February/April 2017
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man to god and vice versa
some say that we shall never know
and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day
but I saw the world as
streaming in the electrolysis of love
the whole sky had been loud
with the singing of these constellations
the one that likes to sing itself
within something of another nature
the true gesture of sunrise
the flower delivered from earth
in the narrow flute
lacquered needle green
of this once again or this never
god is a man
and he is the star whose body is called movement
and spreads out over the earth and is very close to being alive
we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day
we are like the watery twist of eel grass
floating in the black sea deeps and eddying in the sunlight
very close to being alive
this space of time is organized
voices break the indifferent sarcophagus
we need not fear these silences
we need not fear these
unrecapturable returns
out of another life
now we will pretend all songs are possible
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Astronaut, inspired by Heather Christle
I am standing in mercury a globe in my hands
where your house is marked off
and there is a fish bowl on my head but it is
melting from the heat and now I am the closest
to the sun even though you are taller on earth
and water on mercury is gray and I am standing
in a cavity of dirt thinking of the cavity in your
tooth and I am the gray on mercury and the silver
in your jaw and everything is fillings indents
and the globe keeps spinning
at my fingertips.
-Ana Teller, April 2017
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Myths of Reality, after “Pleasures” by Denise Levertov
I like to find the truths that may not be true at first
glance, the falseness of candor,
the eversion of earth: to turn the sphere inside out and discover the mantle exterior.
The hollow needles wrapped in armored skin:
the fangs of the python welling
with lemon tinged venom that I milk from its throat,
bright and warm in its glass,
toxicity suspending allure.
Or the cold beat of the penguin’s wing,
down fluffed by antarctic air,
the wind that flows beneath the unfurled
feathers of creatures of land air and sea.
I like to watch their dance in the sky,
their beaks a bright streak of tangerine in the clouds,
their heads a shadow before fading into golden gradient.
I like to see the blood trickle through the man o’ war’s veins
wine red, stark
against transparent violet jelly
as its tendrils sneak a current through the surface of gray blue waves.
-Ana Teller, March 2017
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Irma’s Injection
If I could open my own throat I’d slip into that wet muscle to dissect the gray pulp of my mind. I could open Irma’s mouth and find the answers etched in the pink of her tonsils and know I’ve found myself.
I am awake but this is a world of slumber. I am its dazed member. The lasting symbols of unconscious want manifested in crib mobiles and I am the fisted hand reaching up to yank it down. What else can I do to slap the face with cold water?
If dream’s the wish fulfilled then let me rest and be the decoder, the interpreter, the creator of interpretation. I wish to be the revealer of trains of musing that never reached the station, of midday reverie, of slips of tongue; to be stringing together the milky lulls of cradle song, the milk of our mothers, the symbols of our fulfillment; unraveling a night’s rest, authoring the sleep, unwinding what only we could have wound in our doze.
-Ana Teller, April 2017
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apple II - inscape
A gradient of half lit yellow tops is fading into red, gleaming, bouncing white patches of white rays’ reflection. The glossy skin’s glare like light on mirror, still standing, slightly off balance, slightly more on one side, proving symmetry is not the purest form of beauty.
Its perfection is in its ability to fill the palm of a hand, fill the mouth of the feeder, fill the eyes of the looker, and other harsh things. But for now it rests on a table of mahogany, not unlike the wood of its mother, because somehow all things return home.
-Ana Teller, May 2017
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apple I - conception
If I were to write the form of the apple, I would show how the thin skin envelopes the sweet flesh below, a bubble of red, freckled and patched golden. If I were to show you the apple, I’d hand you a mirror. You can see yourself in its skin. It reflects any image.
Imagine a sphere firm all over but dimpled at its top and bottom. Imagine it dipped red but stained yellow by the sun. Imagine a stem grown wiry and hard, snipped short, gone brown; the lasting reminder of its birth.
If I were to show you an apple, I would show you its birth, its conception matted in bumblebee fuzz. If I were to write the form of the apple I’d write it on a tree, on the bark of its mother, on the flesh of its ancestor. I’d remind you of its flowering, of swelling, of thin red skin enveloping sweet flesh. It is freckled light with pollen and you can almost see your face in its glow.
-Ana Teller, April 2017
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Grandmother’s Opal Ring
Thin and browned yellow band,
antique gold the same color of Jack Johnson’s teeth,
the same color of honeyed clay:
the birth of man, my thin skin.
And in its center an opal jewel,
that milky moonstone, cloudy
like the local lake I’d spend my summers in
suspended in nature far from the city noise
or like the fish tank water filled with my first responsibilities
or like the lead water of Flint that is noone’s responsibility,
et cetera et cetera…
And gold metal twists to frame it,
that delicate filigree holding all the feelings
of braking too sudden and a mother’s outstretched arm
across her child’s chest who is sitting in the passenger seat:
that rigid tenderness, that unbending protection.
And in it is adornment and inklings
of narcissism but this is not just finger jewelry.
I can see all the moments of my past
and my present and
my everbending future reflecting in its lustre;
the luxury of now swirling in the opal.
-Ana Teller, May 2017
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Yahweh Should’ve Been My Name
I am the ripest fruit of the hanging garden
I am the fruit of green thumbs
I am the green blade, the pink worm, the gray fog lolling
I am the whys of grief, the thinks of history, the ripest fruit of thought
I am Lilith in my demons
I am Eve in my garden
I am the green serpent in the green trees of the green garden
I am
In the hanging garden
In the whys of history
In the thinks of thought
I am
-Ana Teller, March 2017
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untitled - love spell?
Eros, you rose,
tearing red hearts with red pricks from red arrows,
reading lust,
bathing in the sound of the friction,
the thump of organ speech,
the thump of flesh,
the thump of the sound of the friction;
bathing in the scent of desire,
lust no longer affliction;
bring the petal of last heart’s wink
pedal the gears of last desire’s thought
tear their red heart with a red prick
until my love is ready
until I am bathing in the sound of our friction
the thump of organ speech -
lust no longer afflicted.
-Ana Teller, March 2017
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The Walkway That Robs Memory
And these days I find anvils above every walkway. Dangling is the closest to eternity we will ever get. They dangle above us all. I don’t reach for it. I stitch snowflakes into the bottom of shoes. Softness in every step and I walk above every walkway.
The past aches in bones today. In the past my mother yells about the crayons on the wall. The past shifts in bones today. There are teeth with her name in them. I am hearing a girl shifting weight from one foot to the other. I am feeling it all seep into the names.
There are bones with your name in them. They soak up the seep. They scream it like a prayer when the rain falls. Your name echoes through drops. Everything aches in bones today.
There is a song crying from above the walkways. The song of a girl shifting weight from one foot to the other. The song of a mother’s yell. They are the same. And it is aching. There is no end. The footsteps were too soft. The sound of staining is pumping through our veins and This is the end. I stitch hardness into every word I speak.
When you walk you walk softly. When you talk you talk softly. We are all stained wall. We are all etched bone. The wall underneath the crayon is stained and these are its veins. We are its veins. They pump the pastblood. Dangling is the closest to living we will ever get.
Let me speak. These words are soft. Dangling is the closest to feeling we will ever get. Let me speak. These are the days of discovery. I find the sound. The names in bone. The anvil above. The source of dangling. I will not say these words are soft.
And these days I find the end above every walkway. I am reaching for it. We are all reaching for it. This is the dangling that is the closest to singing - closest to yelling - closest to a mother’s yell. This is eternal. This is the end. This is the past. Life is crying from the bottom of shoes.
-Ana Teller, February 2017
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untitled: self love
I call on the one of many hymns,
come plant thy seeds of self adoration deep in the soil of my gut.
Let a tree find itself reaching out
my mouth so I only speak of self praise.
Let its fruit drop ripe in
my mind so I only think of self confidence.
Lest I forget that my steps are the length of two bricks
because these paths were built with me in mind.
Lest I forget that the wheel of fortune has never been spun,
this is not the realm of coincidence,
that I sing to a god
that is already lodged in my throat
and I kneel before a mirror,
the divine intervention in reflection,
staring back with closed eyes, bowed head
and unraveled hands waiting
for the pressure of grace to be
in palm and wrapped in flesh fingerbone.
Blood bitten lips’ speech is that scrawled down
in sacred scripture and spiral notebooks
and my god is she who sleeps in my sheets,
breathes in my clothes, warms the blankets with her life.
Protect and remind her that the sublime
is sunken into the cracks of her soles
and to think ill of a god
is blasphemous.
-Ana Teller, January 2017
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To sing is to praise is to exalt
with every breath of lung pushed
upwards to the heavens
proclaiming adoration to their
shared Love. But is it simply love?
No. it is veneration;
their voices rising simultaneously
like a priest lowers his lips to an altar
like the burn lowering itself down
the stick of incense
the scent of musk and mercy in the air;
like worship but also like repentance,
like human suffering for the result of absolution,
like blood bled for the sake of the cup.
Haven’t you ever wondered
why feast days are anniversaries of death?
The epitome of sacrifice
lies in the forgiving embrace of the tomb.
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