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by Jared Wahlgren © 2007

 

To elope

with content

but be bashful

of form– to swear

it will come undone,

unravel in the heat,

linen pleats.

To mark a word–

without context,

without content,

to stare into

space

a disco ball

peering at

the sight

of laughter.

 

Jared Wahlgren is a poet and student. He studied philosophy for two years in upstate New York where he discovered such work as the Varieties of Religious Experience by William James. He was influenced early on by the writings of Hermann Hesse and Emerson. He is the editor of The Flask Review in Boston, Ma, where he plays guitar for his grey and white feline. His poems can be found in Static Movement (March), Beauty/Truth, Cosmopsis Quarterly, La Fenetre, contemporary haibun online, Right Hand Pointing, Watching the Wheels: A Blackbird, Flutter, Psychopoetica, elimae, qarrtsiluni, Brink Magazine & Rogue Poetry Review. His first book entitled "Chariots of Flame" will be out around December on Maverick Duck Press.