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In their words

Ithacans share their works for poetry month

By Staff Report

Last month was national poetry month, and to honor the medium three published Ithacans sent in poems to the Ithaca Times to share with the community.

DREAM CORPS

In my country if you wake, snatched from the dream half-done, you ring the alarm, there's a pull by every bed

(in my country) and soon, their cars ashing green in the night, friends come, for they know I would do it for them,

come to help me re-enter the dream. ey build the set — I sit — a bridge, killing shadows under it, all these

they paint, high steps, a pub. From a truck they roll out mirrors, chests, dress a boy in Elizabethan street costume, teach him

to pour ale. In the half-dark my friends pat each other, practice their lines, and whisper to me "tell us where to stand,

tell us what to say." "You are the director," my friends say. It matters to them that I dream, that I dream on in my country. — Roald Ho man is a published poet and author and a professor at Cornell University

BUT HERE’S THE THING

I sometimes want to dumpster dive just to smell how bad things can get. I think pain could be my friend, if I let it. If I let it deflect the other. The other pain. The one that is unnamable. Deflection is what doctors call one pain replacing another, like those who have to cut themselves to keep from feeling the pain in their hearts. Or maybe it’s referred pain I’m thinking of, pain you feel in one part of your body caused by an injury to another. It’s like when you go for a job interview because someone has referred you to them and maybe they like you for that, but maybe they don’t. Maybe they’ve already chosen someone but have to interview you to appease the person who referred you to them, so you’re just taking up time in their day, the man with the round head and small eyes sipping on his fifth cup. He has to be there when he could be doing his crossword puzzle or playing footsies with Debbie in accounting. Who wants to be interviewed by someone who’d rather be playing footsies with Debbie in accounting? And you can bet all the dead leaves falling off the trees in fall she doesn’t even like him—thinks he’s a creep. It’s a slap in the face to both you and Debbie. But the truth is … I’ve always liked that phrase, but the truth is. Almost as much as but here’s the thing. When I hear someone say but here’s the thing it makes me think everything’s going to be all right, because they know what that thing is, whatever it is. — Cory Brown teaches writing at Ithaca College and studied poetry writing at Cornell University

BEYOND MODERNITY, WE ARE WARNED

by placards in two languages that say the same thing di erently. In the yellow wood where two roads diverge, we choose both, not from arrogance but from indecisiveness, which, like riding two horses at one time, requires long legs, strong thighs, and careless good nature. e world icks by, each leaf magni ed, as we sample this new bar soap, that breakfast sandwich. Placards in two languages praise so drinks and party politics. e world icks by and bites of speech elude their diagrams to hover in the yellow wood. It is late and soon the world will be di erent. — Nancy Vieira Couto is a published poet and author

its most deliriously joyful. Against a drab gray-green background, a bright, branching turquoise line meanders like a maze. Contained inside: a riot of petal-like forms, sometimes solid, sometimes subtly translucent. Deep, saturated reds, blues, yellows and pinks commingle with pale blue and warm gray. Without reducing the work to any speci c, narrow interpretation, the suggestion is of animate life — whether leaves, blossoms, or animal bodies — contained or even imprisoned but nonetheless bursting light and life.

As hung, two larger, square format pieces (24” x 24”) act as bookends for the exhibit. “Grid (yellow)” and the deliberately very similar “Grid (blue)” recall game boards with their precise grid of squares — each marked with a crisp “x” — and exact le /right symmetry. As elsewhere in Lino’s work, bright, vibrant borders, here echoing the paintings’ overall rigidity, act as both contours and “ gures” in their own right, standing out above the fray.

Elsewhere, Lino’s strategy of hanging paired, related pieces side-by-side helps give the show a distinctive coherence and rhythm that enlarges upon what each of the pieces do individually.

Overlapping amoeboid shapes overlay broken, stick-like diagonals in ve pieces from Lino’s “Forms” series. If one looks closely, one can see that the former do not entirely obscure the latter, which pop out as if embossed.

“Now and Again” demonstrates geometric abstraction’s continued capacity for pleasure and profundity. As well, it o ers a reminder of the power of Ithaca’s more outof-the-way art venues to o er surprise and challenge. In conjunction with other recent and new art(s) venues like e Rest, e Downstairs, e Cherry Gallery, and e Soil Factory, it o ers a rebuke to those who would complain about the paucity of the city’s opportunities to see or exhibit work.

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