(This is an excerpt from Irene Koronas’ new work chiaroscuros, which is a hyper-minimalist écriture, melding its aporias with a mix of staccato posthumanism and the historiography of color.)
5°
The futurists timbres
clash with a curve
interlock the facets
that objectify
measures or capture optical
effects (electric prisma)
perception in synchrony
in a violent convex
The spiral brush
across straight lines
A discourse with fiction
in discrepant repeat
in hermeneutric circles
it engages a stopgap
a sheen ore and alloy
extracted by smelt
and leaves a stench
Silver whitewash foils
against mixed genres
it hallows out the satire
The analogy an opposite
chromo for luminaristes
separates and assures
an integral meme
in the blank bane
horizontal = kaio
ascend = joie
descend = melas
this night libretto
konnen
emphendung
phantasia
Lavinia’s ritratto
Artemisia’s necksword
Delacroix’s violenter
Bocklin’s chimera
Monet’s crosshatch
6°
Nannofossils in one cell
coccolithophores
chalk from marine pus
quarried in large blocks
the calcium carbonate
in skeleton algae.
Skeletons collect
the seafloor
lithify
scales fall off
mix with clay
the upper layer
found in pelagics
in hemiplegics
cement the refractive
index
crushed white
forms the scarp horse
a minimalist red Hergst
and the godling epona.
Denumistics stunt
a burial bucket
the scour
the grass manger
graze the foraminifer
the low magni
in aragonite the creta
in drill core.
Deneholes are ancaites
that daub tectonics.
Shatter the boreholes
the marble mass.
Accretion layers
in drifts and zig zag
blocky fossils
the a303
the totternhoe stone
faeces picked out
by brackish seeps
7°
Riffling through thick
brush with a fossil’s trowel
beige’s insidious vowel
settles its secretions
with neutral poison
a dilution at the core
the nenuphar covers
pale brown karki
as it falls back
on paste in blend
the bland uniform
the pale sandy fawn
tints the communis
with the empty
trouser trade
nihil’s cesspit
soils buff
soils skyvory
soils cosmic latte
dull against bleach
8°
Orpiment
works on a charred
rustic surface
rigorous in logic
and artifice
a double nihilistic
search for violent yellow
shatters the terra firma
Art is a cadaver
exhumed by all
done by none
under gravedirt
the conservator
guilds a borehole
in baroque frames
Irene Koronas is an extreme experimentalist. Her The Grammaton Series includes gnōstos, Volume VII (BlazeVOX, 2023), siphonic, Volume VI (BlazeVOX, 2022), lithic cornea, Volume V (BlazeVOX, 2021), holyrit, Volume IV(BlazeVOX, 2019), declivities, Volume III (BlazeVOX, 2018), ninth iota, Volume II (The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2018) and Codify, Volume I (Éditions du Cygne, 2017). She is the Publisher of Var(2x). Her website is irenekoronas.com.