Simon Cartlidge Poet Free verse

Indalomena Mnemosyna

'The silence of Marcel Duchamp is overrated'
All that chess-
Recall for a moment
That idle chit-chat,
That verbal bric-a-brac,
such flamboyant suppositional consciousness,
Let it noodle around the edges-
Blow this metaphor off.
Ratings challenge lies.
The deep magenta shadows,
The haze of grass smoke
'My face is my own, I thought'.
We need to remember,
Weaving around caftans
with a duodecimal swivel-
I think of Ben Johnson
And 'Shards of God',
Who is Hanibal?
Collapsing the elements,
My question is a part of the point of these lines,
A faked head,
Gaslight,
A form of women,
I can do nothing.
Other discourses speak on it's behalf,
There is a cost to the silent critique,
'The silence of Marcel Duchamp is overrated'.

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Simon Cartlidge August 4, 2009 at 5:10 PM The title comes from the names of two nymphs in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (meaning Poliphilo's search for love in a dream) that I studied with a friend at uni. It seemed apt to use them for the title of this since the poem is about how the imagination works from one idea to another in a dream-state. Indalomena means fantasy and imagination while mnemosyna means memory so the title is roughly 'imagined memory' which is how we always look back at really vivid dreams once we wake.

Debbie Guzzi July 28, 2009 at 9:39 AM Indalomena????Mnemosyne..the Mother of Muses? Please educate me..send soup mail. Those who don't know want to know. Light & Love