Name: Most coins are made of chocolate (Joan Brossa)
Duration: P00H03M39S
Description: Ona Balló Pedragosa reads Joan Brossa’s ‘Poema’ / ‘Poem’ ... Diamanda La Berge Dramm reads Dominic J. Jaeckle’s poem, ‘March 3rd (Mercè Rodoreda)’ ...

Most coins are made of chocolate (Joan Brossa)

from Price Poetry (or the Left Ventricle in Times of Trouble) by Dominic James Jaeckle

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Ona Balló Pedragosa reads Joan Brossa’s ‘Poema’ / ‘Poem’ ... Diamanda La Berge Dramm reads Dominic J. Jaeckle’s poem, ‘March 3rd (Mercè Rodoreda)’ ...

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It is certain
I have no money
and it’s clear that most coins
are made of chocolate;
but if you take this page,
double it long-ways
into two rectangles,
and afterwards into four,
then make an oblique fold
along the four sides
and separate them
into two main parts,
you will have
a bird that moves
its wings.

•

I only called you once
looking for context
but my concern was ever that our reflections

would be wide rather than deep
scarcely a great depression, simply a navel-high

spirit level
a void that comes to your knees

& ROUNDED FORMS (O MERCY)

... a painting hanging on a piece of red
and yellow string that was full of locusts
wearing gold coronets,
with men’s faces and women’s hair,
crawling out of a pit onto scorched grass,
and the sea in the distance,
and the sky above was the colour of oxbood,
and the locusts, clad in armour,
were killing each other
with swipes of their tails ...

And I was thinking of you as a kind of blue deer
and imagining the version of forest
that image would demand

the cytokinins and auxin

a painting, hanging
on a piece of red and yellow string

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from Price Poetry (or the Left Ventricle in Times of Trouble), released January 10, 2023

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