umbra
what will be
wanted will be
a bud’s shadow superposed on a leaf
wàrped leaves
holey
throwing dark sharpangles,
ragg’d gaps
more-of-them
frilled round stems
theirs shinnying up/down beyondbranches
monkeypoling
a micropebble’s
cast longlow
evèning out pitted dust
wall’s flaws
darkmarked
more-than-not deeper than surface
fooling if
formmerging fòreshòrtenedfeeling
ghost-of-gist
connoted stand-in
word spoken
fallen on page
as
this grows to
Fowl in
water
why
peacock–vulture–saurian–strutting how
who
still
figures slant wherefore
how
flatdrop
lilypads whenwhere
what
pondmurk wavewinkles whence
grass here there
and there
there me there
and here
how
long
nudge shade noon whither
how
long
line duck cove which
sky
now
off here then
then
there
toward now me
Summer 2010
Poems
George Vance
Ohio-born, long-time resident
of Paris,
George Vance has most recently been
involved in experiments with word/image fusion, tags, & street
art. His
hybrid language & image video installation, "HEIGHTS", was
exhibited in Brussels
in 2006, & he recently designed a 'totem' sculpture with a
Kanak artist.
Author of Bent
Time (2006),
a chapbook,
his poems have appeared in Paris
in Pharos
& Upstairs at Duroc.
He has read at
numerous Paris
venues including The American Library, Wice, Paris Writer's workshop,
Live
Poets, The Red Wheelbarrow, & as part of the multi-voiced
performance group
"Quadriphonics" (with Jennifer K Dick, Michelle Noteboom &
Barbara Beck). Vance has lived in Liberia,
Austria,
Germany,
France
& the French Overseas
'Country' of New Caledonia/Kanaky. His poems can also be found on the
collaborative poetry blog Rewords,
of which he is
a member, as well as the web magazine Retort.