M__TM___RE (37) by Paul Siegell | Really System: Issue Six

MTM_RE (37)

Paul Siegell

the
where
whom
had
charms

In
tucked
The
storage space
out
the poet's
pudding,

He
placed
his manuscripts.
to make
the largest wall,
of

welcoming

. They turned up

this world.

of
known
fire,

a mattress
the poet kept

a skylight there. On
the zodiac, an image
a beard, and
go

Source material: Bohemian Paris: Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse, and the Birth of Modern Art by Dan Franck (Grove Press, 2003).

Paul Siegell is the author of wild life rifle fire (Otoliths Books), jambandbootleg (A-Head Publishing) and Poemergency Room (Otoliths Books), and a senior editor at Painted Bride Quarterly. In 2015, the Pennsylvania Center for the Book will be featuring Paul in the Public Poetry Project. Kindly find more of his work — and concrete poetry t-shirts — at paulsiegell.blogspot.com and @paulsiegell.

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