Meditation 1

whereas that

corruptive principle

 

incessant production

as supplement in

 

the event of

capture (i

 

relish that

challenge) it

 

was not you but

my thoughts about

 

you that i didn't like

i was always

 

practicing for another

life

 

though one wonders

the only elements of

 

design on

the site of art be simple

 

and possible to think

all detours necessary here

 

comes the illusion intervals

within harmony disease

 

in substitution a sort of

happy pause that which

 

causes the present

to pass the malign

 

element of melody so

that moral effect be

 

operated on

expressing the passions a

 

virgin language or phantom

of alienation will erase

 

the past or dialectical replay

in which all neighbors are plexiglas

 


Meditation 2 

distinct and obscure   

assorted political

 

dementia orchestrated by

the death instinct by

 

way of disguise the pleasure principle

founded a new philosophy beyond

 

false movement recalling imaginary

events in which they are

 

inserted but only halfway stability

and immobility of

 

contrary subjects they governed

a priori absence if

 

all parasites be poets and

events less than memory

 


Meditation 3

The body is jumbled woods

and everything has gone away

vulture in a tomb of violent stars

 

gathers up the evasive

imprint of muddied water upon

that flying dot

 

she deferred her pain

towards contained places

the plunge begins where the thrust leaves off

 

destroying a living woman

along with the illegible itinerary of her sleep

motionless winds fence in your field

 

so as to lay out your bones in a tight circle

a taste for tortured water

you will stretch out to your skin's farthest limits

 

but it's a poor summer in Paris

and life is a long murder

your life-span stretches over at least an acre of birds

 

from arm to hillside

yet my gaze erases them

with a tattered cloth of smiles

Ekleksographia #1

January  2009

Poems

Jane Joritz-Nakagawa

Jane's third book of poems, EXHIBIT C, has been published by Ahadada (Fall 2008).  Her other poetry books are Skin Museum (2006) and Aquiline (2007). Meditations 1 through 3 are part of a fourth book in progress.  Meditation 1 contains a phrase from Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition. Meditation 3 is comprised of lines written by various poets found in the book Women's Poetry in France 1965–95, selected and translated by Michael Bishop.