Three Pieces by Irene Koronas

elias

opus 110 in a flat touch, kitsch’s ride

on ingres paper. praise putter rat

dispose in c minor sobriety

one bid narcosis. savor savior. need

cango forefinger. indoor

string allegretto. still sit still.

panoply balcon. good friday figs

passe defini aorist 

concern 2

crack glim’s feeb gull

diamet poses her ternal key

tune stimmuna’s instruert

the ut bitten room lies

crucifixion huddle absorbs

deskill to virtu smooth. stroll

kill. clique alters purp to ever

upwar. sweat fur. pow pow

aside the jitter drag div

trinsic in diagramatics

tri apex

sq gib

ft seg

yd insull

tsp idi

concern 3

imitation matt amuses a rip

open form is plash content.

gotten short. forgot burn

pissen coo. delibly or fix lame.

vermillion tep not quest wakes

defi blood let’s ally taste. ease org

verberation. about 21 spank

cobalt. the sphere lays one

two stratagems. dark

erebus has plenty of merika.

trum attribute, postilion.

hell the mediocre reem oath

hampers pulsations, each sharp c

nonstation and lay

The works “elias,” “concern 2” and “concern 3,” included in Silver Pinion, are from my manuscript holyrit, Volume IV of my Grammaton Series, a series which can be characterized as postlanguage, hyper-minimalist écriture, melding the aporias of a posthuman poesis with an orthodox spiritus. The results of this meld are the invention of a high minimalism manifested through units of measurement: the grammaton. As with a digital bricolage, no grammaton cleaves to a single narrative account but rather to an infinite array of variables, memed and burrowed from matrices comprised of gematria, the fibonacci code, hagiography and iconography, as well as syphoned from a trajectory of experimental literature and poetics from Dadaism to Uncreative Writing. My Grammaton Series is fashioned from a panerotism reconciling the disequilibrium encoded within the hyperlinks of a retromanic pleroma and a feminine clinamen. I relegate identity and gender to funerary antiques in a reliquary. Dexterity, agility, finesse and hilarity resurrect the zombies of confessionalism, so as to unleash stanzaic androids and gynoids, secreting glossolalia from postdata holy writ, creating a grand, new poesis for the 21st century.

Irene Koronas is the author of numerous collections of xperimental writing. Her individual collections include declivities (BlazeVOX, 2018), Volume III in her Grammaton Series, ninth iota (The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2018), Volume II in her Grammaton Series, Codify (Éditions du Cygne, 2017), Volume I in her Grammaton Series), Turtle Grass (Muddy River Books, 2014) and Emily Dickinson (Propaganda Press, 2010). She’s a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art & Design and is the Publisher and Managing Editor of X-Peri.