5/30/2022 Poetry by Glenn Marchand Christopher Sessums CC
Phantom Mania Brains you arose unannounced. like pain on a Sunday morning, a church-house in pieces. rawness! visceral rawness! a phantom in a person. we were intimate. you still linger. i wonder about absence. days looking for you, absorbed by pieces of you, conversing damages at privies you left flying. others watch to sponge, problems are evaluated. no one unless privy understands empty skies. flowers are elegant, people are suspicious, it’s similar to something criminal. a dear complex, a rawer emotion, as asserting what normality looks like. you speak in vibes like silence, like agonies. mere quintessence, more acquisition, as more acquiescing. i wrestle your offshoots, your incantations, your analyses of communion. by more i learn, by more i bury, as more suspicious i become. they call it energy. by mind is by heart as both are consumed by it. an unusual woman, a different person, we have nothing for each other. a gifted woman, an angel/monster woman, as appointed to be more than a woman. i would meander inside, searching countryside, sitting/leaping, filled with pain. a person becomes intimate, learns balance, a semblance thereof; a calm sufferer, smiling like grace, you’re behind my eyes. a phantom, pushing boundaries, with each visit unlocking divinity; those compartments, those elusive cabinets, a climate subsumes. most extremeness baffles me. i call it pure energy. it seems to have intelligence. too curious to simmer, too righteous to listen, its passing pain is palpable. Glenn Marchand has an M.A. in Theology from Loyola Marymount University, and recently finished his requirements in the MFA Creative Writing program at Mount Saint Mary’s University. Marchand is an African American poet, focused on writing about existential truths, topics seeming apparent, or better, life’s aphorisms. Marchand believes in connectivity, a mystic universe, and the beauty in communicating through energy. Attached are a set of poems for consideration. Comments are closed.
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