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      • MY BALDERDASHERY by Eric Paul Shaffer
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      • SNICKER-SNACK by Bruce Meyer
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      • NEVERENDING KNOT by Jodie Dalgleish
      • LEARNING TO WALK by Jodie Dalgleish
      • OVERSOUL by P.S. Lutz
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      • MAP OF MEMORY by Jesse Schotter
      • BISMILLAH by Abby Minor
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      • LOVE LETTER TO LANGUAGE: AN ABECEDARIAN by Saramanda Swigart
      • IF YOU WERE ALL WATER by M. Ann Reed
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      • CONTRA FORMALISME by Leland Seese
      • DRUNKEN MAN ON A BICYCLE by Dan Butterworth
      • WOLF TICKETS THROUGH THE FERAL WINTER by Kirk Marshall
      • SYLVANUS, BARD by Marc Lerner
      • THE LOOKING GLASS OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM by Frank Meola
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      • INTIMATE THINGS by Laylage Courie
      • A SERIES OF PUNCTUATION by Hajar Hussaini
      • ROT AND GLORIANA by Laurel Miram
      • BLUES ON RED by Elie Doubleday
      • MY FICTION: REMEMBERING 50 YEARS OF WORK by Richard Kostelanetz
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      • YIELD LIGHT OF WAY by Ken Goodman
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        • BLUE SKY LANGUAGE by Christien Gholson
        • UN DETECTIVE VIEJO by Franco Strong
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december 25, 2022 (for our poets)
&
the morning person
&
through the eye of a needle
&
​arbor day

By Aletha Irby
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​december 25, 2022 
​(for our poets)

to venture forth this morning
in a state of dishabille,
daedalean perhaps
yet disabused as a dandelion
of all deadlines,
to divest yourself of obligations
unseemly and seedy
as slumlord or sweatshop
and to hear the cacophony of traffic
and neighbors at loggerheads silenced;
to find the stench of fast-food dissipated,
the grisly pneumatic percussives
of the corner automotive muffled;
 
and in their absence
a panorama of summoning cerulean
crowns the world
above voices of sparrows
who seem to have sprouted
tiny bells in their throats
amid doors of royalist indigo
wreathed apotropaic
as asabikeshiinh,
while an airplane unsubstantiated
as the niuhi who seeks no prey
ascends to altitude;
the heavens’ only other denizen
a morning sun more celebratory
than you have ever seen him
who lengthens and inspires
every shadow
to the shape of yuletide spruce;
 
and now forefended momentarily
from a plagued and battle-riven world,
the barbarisms of genocide and femicide,
from an enemy who would render
subalterns of our very souls,
through the leafless branches
of winter cottonwood so arterial
that verses course earthward
from a hinterland of cumulus
you scry at its height
lodged like a small tumbleweed
the densely woven nest
of departed starling
or hoarder bird
bard extraordinaire
from which unfurls
a parchment sun-infused,
seraphic as a semaphore,
as the translucent pearl
of that which is yet unborn---
no flag of surrender
but a banner nay wing
of eternal truce
athwart the whilom battlefield
where vestigial no more
your poetry permeates
and predominates,
arisen.

*asabikeshiinh (ah sah´ bah shin): ojibwe word for 'dreamcatcher'; inanimate form of the word 'spider'
**niuhi (nee-oo´-hee): hawaiian word for a large shark


​the morning person

no one longs as you do 
to desist at twelve 
when the meerkat-eyed 
madding crowd 
of a turquoise noon 
sounds their extroverted carillon 
to be spirited away 
by a soloist 
a piccolo-soft berceuse 
to an amethystine bedchamber 
to haunt your own counterpane 
dreamily indecisive 
floating forth and back 
between the aquamarine 
aspiring to aubergine
 
of periwinkle and plumbago 
or any purple’s reminiscing 
hearkening back 
nostalgic for her alice
blue 
or aegean
youth 
like tanzanite or iolite 
and on those rare 
primavernal or autumn days
 
when cirrocumuli 
scry the southeast texas
sky 
at five in the afternoon 
when you should still be sleeping 
how the mediterranean
beckons 
insinuating itself 
through the gulf of mexico
 
summoning you back 
to the dye vats of tyre 
the decomposing snails 
the ruderal 
from which like purple emperors 
we eked out the regalia 
of byzantine birth chambers 
until sunset 
​composed the nocturne 
which resurrected day
 
to a second morning  
divesting it of the stench  
of hierarchy 
and overweening imperium 

​
until we all became 
porphyrogenitos 
compelling the sky 
once again to remember 
wisteria  
tahoka daisy
 
and texas
 mountain laurel 
​lavender and lilac and illyrian
 violet 
the inspired exhalations 
of thistling heath and heather 
hyacinth, hibiscus, and hydrangea 
the twilight clairfragrance 
of passionflower, ambrosia, and patchouli 
frangipani, frankincense, and tuberose 
 
to intimate 
that the color of poetry 
is azure, pastoral blue 
until we savage it 
with our own blood 
to the more epic, embattled hue. 

​through the eye of a needle

I 
another sleepless night 
every synapse 
of my bedouin brain 
tows his dromedary 
or shambling bactrian 
ill-tempered and bellowing 
laden 
with an unconscionable profane 
across the interminable 
warp and weft 
of cotton bedsheets 
gritty and lofty as sand dunes 
or stony with hamada 
which batter 
the soles of our feet 
hobbling our toes 
and spraining our ankles 
all night we nomad 
and somnambulate 
from gobi 
to the taklamakan 
drawn onward 
to tutankhamun’s 
western desert 
until we find ourselves 
in morocco 
on the saharan atlantic 
whereupon we turn 
to caravan back again 
thirsting and despairing 
eleemosynary for an oasis 
of freshwater mermen 
unsung as myrmidons  
before the war 
unsubjected to slaughter 
heat and sand 
within opalescent afternoons 
their oscillating soporific tails 
viridescent and argentine 
whose choruses siren forth 
an oracular orphean 
a connotative serene 



II 
oh i dreamt that i was morpheus 
or was it orpheus 
condemned forever 
to odyssey eleemosynary 
toward tartarus 
my guide and mentor 
mnemosyne 
rife with jealousy 
repeatedly betrays us 
advising to hearken back 
once too often 
whereupon my muse 
the faithful but tremulous 
eurydice 
vanishes 
forsaking me 
of bespoken grace 
which transmogrifies 
like lot’s wife 
to a pillar of salt 
insentient monument 
to ineluctable 
inebriate bereavement 
and like lot 
sallying forth 
and sailing onward 
each night 
i shipwreck 
on every abandoned shore 
their beaches 
bereft of shells 
their sands 
lucrative and lachrymal 
as camels 
sieving through my fingers ​

​​arbor day

scurrilously quirky 
question mark 
   scurvy knave  
of a squirrel 
your manic suffix 
of a tail inflecting 
   incessantly 
as if squiffy with usquebaugh 
oh antonym of quiescent 
quicksilver 
yet no match 
for this pacific 
woodland denizen 
no matter  
how quarrelsome 
the querulous curlicues 
of your gamey ascensions 
and dizzy incentives 
how irrepressible 
your dithering  
dissenting descents 
sequoia 
forbears 
without mollycoddling 
the perpetual collywobble 
of your disposition 
sequesters you 
amid prodigious 
orchestral limbs 
stalwartly protective 
sesquipedalian 
sinewy and avuncular 
as a telamon 
as if you squirrel 
though you hellion 
through his day 
were a godsend 
worthy of upholding 
of mentoring 
of patience 
unfailing and pastoral 
of a redoubtable leviathan’s 
inviolable 

arboreal harboring 
as if you merit 
the sanctuary 
of shamanic susurration 
the onomatopoeia 
for omnipotence 
his ancient calling 
and cradlesong 
Aletha Irby is very grateful to have been granted this time, on this planet, to spend with the English language.

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  • ABOUT
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    • AZURE Volume 7, Issue 3 >
      • DECEMBER 25, 2022 by Aletha Irby
      • A SUMMARY OF 'A BRIEF HISTORY OF NASOCARPIA' by Peter Arscott
      • CARRYING CAPACITY by Charles Byrne
      • THE MUNE MONOLOGUES by Thomas Townsley
    • AZURE Volume 7, Issue 2 >
      • VARIATION ON A THEME & POSE POEM by Norman Minnick
      • THE MAP OF YOUR HANDS UNFOLDS A DOVE by Vikki C.
      • HISTORIES OF THE BEARD by Richard Hague
      • ILLUSTRATED COMMENTS ON THE APOPHATAPATAPHYSICAL METRICS OF COSMIC HUMOR by edo strannikov
    • AZURE Volume 7, Issue 1 >
      • ORANGES by John Moody
      • THE LACONIA by Wendy Webb
      • BREATH OF THE TEXT by Jeremiah Cassar Scalia
    • AZURE Volume 6, Issue 4 >
      • TO THOSE FOUND DEAD IN CHIMNEYS by R.W. Plym
      • WHAT TO EXPECT OF LIFE by Steven G. Kellman
      • IF IT WERE DRAWN by Jessica Reed
      • BLOOD IN THE ORCHIDS by Amanda Kotch
      • CORNELIUS RADHOPPER by Peter Arscott
    • AZURE Volume 6, Issue 3 >
      • ANIMAL INHERITANCE by akhir ali
      • THAT DUDE DERRIDA by Daniel Klawitter
      • FLAT-EARTH FRED by Phil Gallos
      • THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING SEMICOLON by Orana Loren
      • MY BALDERDASHERY by Eric Paul Shaffer
    • AZURE Volume 6, Issue 2 >
      • MIRROR by Joshua Kepfer
      • CUE FALLING PIANO by D.C. Weaver
      • ANTON AND THE ECHO by Cristina Otero
      • THAT WHICH WE TRULY DON'T KNOW by JOACHIM GLAGE
      • CONGRATULATIONS by Alan Sincic
    • AZURE Volume 6, Issue 1 >
      • NEVER, NEVER LAND, MY SHIP by Mark Pearce
      • THE SMILE OF MONA LISA by Fatima Ijaz
      • OUROBOROS by Esme Sammons
      • THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA by Margaret D. Stetz
      • SNICKER-SNACK by Bruce Meyer
    • AZURE Volume 5, Issue 4 >
      • THE OWLET AND THE TURTLE by Greg Sendi
      • BRACTS and other poems by Nathaniel Calhoun
      • ANSWERS TO NON-EXISTENT QUESTIONS and other poems by Kevin Griffith
      • NEVERENDING KNOT by Jodie Dalgleish
      • LEARNING TO WALK by Jodie Dalgleish
      • OVERSOUL by P.S. Lutz
    • AZURE Volume 5, Issue 3 >
      • MAP OF MEMORY by Jesse Schotter
      • BISMILLAH by Abby Minor
      • MICROMORTS by Veronica Tang
      • LOVE LETTER TO LANGUAGE: AN ABECEDARIAN by Saramanda Swigart
      • IF YOU WERE ALL WATER by M. Ann Reed
    • AZURE Volume 5, Issue 2 >
      • CONTRA FORMALISME by Leland Seese
      • DRUNKEN MAN ON A BICYCLE by Dan Butterworth
      • WOLF TICKETS THROUGH THE FERAL WINTER by Kirk Marshall
      • SYLVANUS, BARD by Marc Lerner
      • THE LOOKING GLASS OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM by Frank Meola
    • AZURE Volume 5, Issue 1 >
      • INTIMATE THINGS by Laylage Courie
      • A SERIES OF PUNCTUATION by Hajar Hussaini
      • ROT AND GLORIANA by Laurel Miram
      • BLUES ON RED by Elie Doubleday
      • MY FICTION: REMEMBERING 50 YEARS OF WORK by Richard Kostelanetz
    • AZURE Volume 4, Issue 4 >
      • ENDNOTES FOR AN ALLOCUTION by Peter Freund
      • UKEMI (and other poems) by Nicole Vento
      • MEMORANDUM ON DESIRE by Laylage Courie
      • THE HOLYWOOD DEUTERONOMY by Jim Shankman
      • AT THE MAD HATTER-MARCH HARE ART GALLERY (and other poems) by M. Ann Reed
    • AZURE Volume 4, Issue 3 >
      • THE MACHINE, STOLEN FIRE, and PERFORMANCE by Vivek Narayan
      • FIRST FRUITS by Stephen Massimilla
      • ONCE UPON A TOMORROW-TIME by Christopher Routheut
      • YIELD LIGHT OF WAY by Ken Goodman
      • SEVEN TALES by Sara Streett
    • AZURE Volume 4, Issue 2 >
      • THE PUNCH-CARD CIPHERS by DF Short
      • SHE WAS THE FIRST TO GIVE A TOAST by Kelli Russell Agodon
      • HABLU L-WARIDI by Jesse Hilson
      • THE KEY TO DREAMS by Sean S. Bentley
      • SOFA, SO GOOD, SORT OF by Remy Ngamije
    • AZURE Volume 4, Issue 1 >
      • STAMPING THE DEAD by Habib Mohana
      • LEGS by A. Joachim Glage
      • I THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX by Heikki Huotari
      • LUŽÁNKY by V.B. Borjen
    • ARCHIVES: VOLUME 3 >
      • AZURE Volume 3, Issue 4 >
        • TALES UNSUITABLE FOR CHILDREN by Devon Ortega
        • WAKE UP by JayJay Conrad
        • AMONG THE MEN IS APRIL by Logo Wei
        • SWEET by Melinda Giordano
        • BLACK ROSES by Osamase Ekhator
        • MEET ME TONIGHT ON METAPHOR STREET by Vivek Narayan
      • AZURE Volume 3, Issue 3 >
        • MENAGE A TROIS, WITH HORSE by Don Dussault
        • THE BLACK by Ben Colandrea
        • BLUE SKY LANGUAGE by Christien Gholson
        • UN DETECTIVE VIEJO by Franco Strong
      • AZURE Volume 3, Issue 2 >
        • THE CLEANSING by Linda Dennard
        • SHUFFLE by Debbie Fox
        • DID YOU FALL OR RISE FROM THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING? by M. Ann Reed
        • THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE PORNQUEEN by Omar Sabbagh
        • KIGALI MEMORIAL by Carlos Andres Gomez
        • PANTOUM OF THE MEAT by Ouita Rogers
      • AZURE Volume 3, Issue 1 >
        • HOW TO WRITE A BIOGRAPHY by Joanne B. Mulcahy
        • PROTOCOL NINE-NINE-NINE-NINE by Kenneth Hanes
        • LESS' MORE by TWIXT
        • POINTLESS MR. PROBST by Beatriz Seelaender
    • ARCHIVES: VOLUME 2 >
      • AZURE Volume 2, Issue 4 >
        • SYLVAN PASSAGES by Dan Wood
        • SISTER ALONE by Janet M Powers
        • CENTURY 2.1 by Alan Flurry
        • CLAIMED BY THE SEA by Sam Reese
      • AZURE Volume 2, Issue 3 >
        • CROSSHATCHING by M.K. Rainey
        • LULLABY by Barbara Daddino
        • HOUSEMOUTH (and other poems) by Anhvu Buchanan and Brent Piller
        • THE RESIDUE IN PUBLIC TEA AND COFFEE CUPS by V.B. Borjen
        • SYZYGY (and other poems) by Malorie Seeley-Sherwood
      • AZURE Volume 2, Issue 2 >
        • DRAGONFLIES: A DISCOURSE ON ANXIETY by Lara Lillibridge
        • AND RICHARD BURBAGE ALSO HAD A SISTER by Freya Shipley
        • THE WATCHERS by M.K. Rainey
        • JAZZ INTERACTION WITH SYMBOLS by Sarah T.
        • SPIDER (and other poems) by Natalie Crick
      • AZURE Volume 2, Issue 1 >
        • ECHOES by Daniel Freeman
        • MAPS by Susan Brennan
        • EDGAR'S FATHER'S MAGIC WORDS by JWM Morgan
        • LOCKJAW: IN TWO ACTS by James Blevins
        • WHAT THE LIVING DO by Susan Wadds
    • Archives: Volume 1 >
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 10 >
        • SUSURROS DE RECURRENCIA by Franco Strong
        • THE OLD MAN by Sarah T.
        • PERMUTATIONS by Laura Cesarco Eglin
        • WORLD PEACE 3 by Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 9 >
        • LITTLE GHOST by Danny Judge
        • THE LAST ALLUSIONIST by Sakina B. Fakhri
        • CHURCH by Diana McClure
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 8 >
        • DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS by Nancy Flynn
        • WHAT I COULDN'T SAY by Erika Ranee & Diana McClure
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 7 >
        • BRASS TYRANT AND THE AMERICAN THIRST by Kirk Marshall
        • LADY KILLER by Monika Viola
        • THE RIBBONS by Ferguson Williams
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 6 >
        • AURELIA: A BALLET IN PROSE (ACT 2 - Part 1) by Sakina B. Fakhri
        • NEW AGE UNCAGED by Frank Light
        • IMMIGRATION/INTEGRATION by Jaret Vadera & Diana McClure
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 5 >
        • THE TRIALS OF TOBIT by Joseph Lisowski
        • LIKE MANY GIANT FOOTPRINTS (and other poems) by William Doreski
        • AURELIA: A BALLET IN PROSE (ACT I) by Sakina B. Fakhri
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 4 >
        • WARDENCLIFF by Barbara Daddino
        • BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMISTRY by Reg Darling
        • AURELIA: A BALLET IN PROSE (LIBRETTO) by Sakina B. Fakhri
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 3 >
        • LAWTON, OKLAHOMA by Mark Lawley
        • TWEETY BIRD'S GRACE by Diana McClure
        • CONTAGION AND THE DINNER GUEST by Sakina B. Fakhri
        • ON POETRY AND PROSE by Sakina B. Fakhri
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 2 >
        • TWO MICE IN A BLACK BOX & THE DECONSTRUCTION OF LANGUAGE by Sakina B. Fakhri
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        • CHARACTER SKETCHES by Diana McClure
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