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    Silence
    Silence
    Silence
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    Silence

    By JS Venit

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    We all live in boxes. In the underworld too many vendettas.Persephone waits but Rainer and Marina are tired of waiting you probably won’t see them again this year. Meet me at Grizzly Corners near the Villa of Forgiveness if you know how to duel. And if you don’t open the tired armsof these hills to the remorse of Macbeth and Iago. Iago had none he was strictly in the villainy business somewhere in Hungary igniting rainbows with the balance of payments. Macbeth clearly missed his chance so turn again burnished wood refrigerate everything batteries live forever.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateSep 24, 2020
    ISBN9781664131880
    Silence
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    JS Venit

    JS Venit was born in New York and emigrated to Belgium in 1980 where he lives and works. His poems have been published in Partisan Review, The American Poetry Review, Literary Imagination, New Grub Street and The Little Magazine. This is Mr. Venit’s nineteenth collection of poems.

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      Silence - JS Venit

      Copyright © 2020 by JS Venit.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Getty Images.

      Rev. date: 09/24/2020

      Xlibris

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      CONTENTS

      PART I

      THE POETRY OF SILENCE

      KAMARINSKAYA

      EARTH IN SNOW

      ADAM VS LOVE

      VENTRILOQUIST

      WEATHER

      MEETING DOSTOEVSKY

      FIRST LINES

      TOLSTOY’S WIVES

      IN A PORTRAIT OF FEATEHRS

      SILENCE

      FACTS IN THE AIR

      RED SKIES RED LEAVES

      ALSATIAN EYES

      THE END OF MEMORY

      NOTES EN PASSANT

      THE NOSE

      STEALING SNOW

      CONVERSATIONS WITH PROUST

      A BED OF LEAVES

      ROWANBERRIES

      BURNING DACHAS

      LETTERS TO SIELNCE

      THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TEARS

      SCHUMPETER APPLIED TO ASTROPHYSICS

      THE LAST DAYS OF KHRUSHCHEV

      THE MINISTRY OF SILENCE

      OOLONG

      THE WINTER PALACE

      PETER GAST

      PART II

      THE SCARF COLLECTOR

      THE SOCIETY OF STATELESS PERSONS

      TOLSTOY’S THEORY OF HISTORY

      SUMMERS IN BRUSSSELS

      LES ALPES EN HIVER

      VICTOR THE BELLIGERENT

      WINDFARMS

      ODE TO YALTA

      OPUS HOCUS

      IN THE HORTA MUSEUM

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      DARK ALLOYS

      SOLO FOR UNACCOMPANIED HAND

      IN THE TIME OF WORDS

      POETRY

      NINE LONELY STANZAS

      YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW

      BEDSIDE MANORS

      REQUIEM FOR SUMMER

      THE KISSING CONTEST

      VARIATIONS

      ENTELECHY

      MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MEN

      CIRCLES IN THE PARQUETRY

      VARIATIONS ON FOUR LINES

      THE EDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

      THE CHERRY ORCHARD

      CORANOVA

      NUF CED

      IVY DAYS

      SATURDAY CLOSINGS

      AFTER AFTER

      PART III

      LET’S PRETEND

      ODE TO THE ODE

      THE STARS YOU LOVE ARE OUT

      PLACEBO

      TWO LOST POEMS

      ALMOST MANY

      BLANK PAGE

      TREMULO

      VANESSA BY SAMUEL RICHARDSON

      HAS AND HAD NOT

      ROCKS AND PHLOX

      NEWSREEL

      TURNAROUND

      SPHINX

      MISNOMERS

      CANTERBURY TALES

      THE DEAD OF NIGHT

      FOXTROT

      NEIGHBORS

      THE GARDEN OF CATS

      DON JUAN IN HEAVEN

      DIPLOMACY BY OTHER MEANS

      TESTAMENT

      CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD

      WHAT MAY HAVE HAPPENED

      WANDERJAHRE PART I

      THE BROTHRS SOMETHING OR OTHER

      STEEPLECHASE

      THE SOMNABMBULISTS

      ENGLISH 101

      AN OLD LAKE

      DREAM SEQUENCE

      CHAPTER HEADINGS

      LA VITA NUOVA PART III

      THE SPEED OF LIGHT

      CRYTOGRAPHY

      GRACELAND

      LINES TAKEN AT RANDOM

      THE PASSING HOUSE

      KAYAK

      CARPETS SCARVES AND WIGWAMS

      A GAME OF INCHES

      AVALANCHE

      TO A NEW ADDRESS

      DEJA VUE ALL OVER AGAIN

      ENDANGERED SPECIES

      ABOUT THE WIND

      REVISTING THE CLASSICS

      LONG DISTANCE

      THISTLE

      WINES OF THE YANGTZE

      FOR AND SINCE

      TO A DYING POET

      BENIGN NEGLECT

      IN AND ON

      TIME AND PATIENCE

      ROCK AND TINSEL

      SEVENTEEN RANDOM HAIKU

      DEMOGRAPHY

      VARIATIONS IN THE KEY OF SILENCE

      GENESIS

      PART IV

      CASALTA

      ICING

      THE FIFTIES

      MONKSHOOD

      IRREGULAR VERBS

      GLASS PLASTIC AND MIXED

      THIS HOUSE

      DIE WANDERJAHRE PART II

      MOMENTS IN THE SUN

      BASHO

      STILTED

      ODE TO JOSEPH CORNELL

      WOLVES AT BAY

      JENNY LIND

      SHUFFLE

      CAMERA OSCURA

      DIARY OF A MOLE

      THE VOLSTEAD ACT

      CASALTA DUE

      MIR

      BOLIVIAN FOLK MUSIC

      IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE

      PALINDROME

      FINSITERRE

      SHAPES WITHOUT POWER

      KRASNODAR

      DRAGONCELLO

      CLOCKWORK

      THE HINCHLY BORE

      OUR PROSPECTS

      POSTHASTE

      SKIRMISH

      JERUSALEM

      NOW AND LATER

      TICK TOCK

      IN THE AIR

      LESSONS FROM READING

      MODERN TIMES

      OBSERVATIONS FROM THE STARS

      PART V

      TOUSSAINT 2019

      ABSTRACTIONS IN THE AIR

      ODE TO ROSA LUXEMBOURG

      LES FAUVES

      THE WAR OF THE TIES

      ODE TO MARINA TSVETAEVA

      WHITE SMOKE

      POERTY MUST BE SILENT

      Pour Hannah et Alexander

      PART I

      THE POETRY OF SILENCE

      The poetry of silence

      Is not the poetry of speech

      The poetry of silence

      thinks without noise

      The poetry of silence

      is waiting for you to return

      The poetry of silence

      misspells its name as science

      The poetry of silence

      defers to itself

      Are there really missiles

      in the Mississippi or is it

      just the poetry of silence

      The poetry of silence

      understands you but little else

      There is no punctuation

      in the poetry of silence

      The poetry of silence

      would like to hold your hand

      The poetry of silence

      is rapidly losing weight

      The poetry of silence

      is silent in the end

      The poetry of silence

      slowly shakes its head

      The poetry of silence is

      spent or sent

      KAMARINSKAYA

      Accretive poetry or requiems

      released to wander. Buildings

      copy nature while music lamely

      follows with the precise tread

      opulence requires. The pear tree

      in my neighbor’s garden showers

      me with unwanted fruit but I still

      prefer our smaller cities one feels

      the darkness coming on. Trips to

      the Other World The Mysterious

      Ice Quartet The Steel String The

      Murdered Hostel. My love is strong

      and fiercely loyal but makes no

      mention of the Czar or uniforms

      paintings or quiet sounds the future

      spelled and other sleights of hand.

      Perhaps they have all been poisoned.

      EARTH IN SNOW

      The way stars

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