Poetry from Irene Koronas

NHC II,3

Bundle the mimic
Panoply. circa 1637.
Pan magi urges
the hieratic fast

Glitzy doppelgangers
warhole the coin cidence
and skip the eye

Our asthmatic companion’s
paranormal apology. Sold for
a nickel. The decamass
takes cadmium heads
without a trim

We leap on inferences,
the refine nothing,
the tartuffery twist

A citadel of phototex
A citadel of latex
A citadel of profolaktex

snapshots rescue us from buffo

The thresh held to a tripod,
a joke with frogs.

2

Latituderation injures
the baggy drivel,
the same spit on purp

fakes a dialectjour in pose.
A hiccup castigates
that dull dichotomy
that dull cantata

Messianic purits
ban scrid, and hung tongues
to increase assitude

Paragonic sputters
the squat pastiche
reeks solipsism

3

Triptych occupies itself
in a fake hinge
in a faux link

The zero amp tight

A cylinder cataract dogma
tames the spread fixed
in reverse,

an instability from every flat
tumble. The gut fears sight

4

Tempo the average meta.
Petronius is untranslatable

because elegantiarum is a canard
to profligate a voluptuary speed

A science in quo allur, the plausi
representationincisions the vain

play. A broken fluorspar dippers
the table with two hims, a ragment

5

Under a pillow, Aristophanes
hides the attic wasp. Lysistrata

loses the slander chorus
and Didaskalos habits
an errand return


Irene Koronas’ gnōstos, Volume VII (manuscript) of the Grammaton Series is an unanguagic, hyper-minimalist écriture, melding its aporias with a mix of staccato posthumanism and The Nag Hammadi Scriptures.

Irene Koronas is an extreme experimentalist. Her Grammaton Series includes 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). Her extreme experimentalism has been published in Alligatorzine, BlazeVOX, The Boston Globe, Buzdokuz, Cambridge Chronicles, E·ratio, Marsh Hawk Press Review, Offcourse, perspektive, slowforward, Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art and Word For/Word. She is the Publisher of Var(2x). Her website is irenekoronas.com.

2 thoughts on “Poetry from Irene Koronas

  1. thanks for blowing my mind (and the publications in ‘wilderness house’ way back when)

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