Kostas Anagnopoulos and Keiko Narahashi
Word count: 113
Paragraphs: 11
8.
Solitude draws circles around desire. Aloneness has drawbacks
Play with your imagination. It shies away on the pavement
When your mother opens the door— enough already. The thing is the thing.
Smoke and mirrors. The thing is exactly what you wanted. A safety match.
This someone moves what was lit from here to there. The thing is light.
This thing holds desire. Time erases desire. The way time erases mourning.
Grief stays put and puts you to sleep to dream. Your mother is just across the
bridge, agreeable and fine. No need to worry
Darkness is less lonely with a hunk of clay
Poem by Kostas Anagnopoulos with watercolor by Keiko Narahashi.
Kostas Anagnopoulos continues the long-standing tradition of poets publishing poets through his small press, Insurance Editions. His debut collection, Moving Blanket, was published by Ugly Duckling Presse. His second full-length collection, Night Painting, is scheduled for release this April from Cuneiform Press.
Keiko Narahashi was born in Tokyo and lives in New York City and Cape Cod, MA. Through clay and paint, she explores the inherent ambiguities between human history and the natural world, and the transitions between two and three dimensions. Her first experience with the mysterious transformation between dimensions occurred when, as a child, she saw a tin can flattened by a train. Recent exhibitions include Carvalho (Brooklyn), Tappeto Volante (Brooklyn), and Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery (NYC).