CONCEPT SCORES
by Jake Marmer
Concept Score #22
not a sound but sound’s
core,
a vector
trumpet footprint
air on a plate
air tangled at the border
winds gather-fathering
twisted con-
tinent; the
childhood
map a yellow desire
to discuss methodology
fall down now rather
than harder later
Concept Score #31
the idea is to switch between
bowing & plucking so often
the strings forget
what
finger is what fugue what
which way grain
her underpainting
your voice addressed
under those jeans
to peel
the at
present
unutterable things we may find
somewhere
uttered
Concept Score #20
to think people still make careers
by sticking their roots
into a glass of tap water
offering it for contemplation –
water’s turning colors familiar
to anyone in the business of transposing
chasing
a
fish tail
of a wandering carp
scraping off its own fins-scales
all about something else
not even nostalgia but
a hydroponic, as it were,
yearning
Concept Score #8
it’s Sisyphean but
also sexual
in a sub-par sort of a way
but addictive, involved,
endlessly unfolding
as it is unfolding, suddenly
:
all along you wanted
to be interrupted
thinking
it
will always be there when
you turn back but of course –
and now it is the interruption that you continue
pushing
fucking
isn’t much different
there it is, you’re a variation
two sides of the page
basement/attic
soap & foam
Jake Marmer is a poet and performer. His first poetry collection, Jazz
Talmud
was published by Sheep Meadow Press in 2012. Currently a doctoral
candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center, in 2008-2009, he was a Dorot
Fellow in Jerusalem. He frequently contributes to the Forward and
Tablet Magazine, and is co-hosting North America’s first Jewish Poetry
retreat at the KlezKanada Festival. For more information, see http://jakemarmer.wordpress.com.
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