FOR SOME UPRIGHT AUTONOMIST
PRESENTLY MIRED IN A FLAT NEAR EXARCHIA
as in: blocks kid-built, as some amberlight
mellow as sun on karst, as walnut-scent
on figcakes, as brown and petal-flecked bite
as might the cakes of mud might, so boots-rent
as jumping ‘round mud and grass, ‘tween paver
‘tween blocks ‘tween socialist-built lugs, lumber
past antennae, bug-aware : green laver
as damp as bora skies, funk as umber
as in : but that was december, of ass
slapped with baguettes, of offices broken
into, of toyturtles, plastic and crass
pickedup/putback, from where they’re beholden
as beholden as some lips to a neck
three a.m. insomnia : just a peck
Mark Faunlagui was born in the Philippines, grew up in New Jersey and New York, and studied at Cornell University. He is an architect in New York City, and lives in Jersey City. His work appears in Greying Ghost’s The Corduroy Mtn, Omnidawn Publishing’s OmniVerse, Augury Books Online, Sibling Rivalry Press’s Assaracus, The New Engagement, White Stag Publishing’s #Watertome and Fence. On Some Hispano Luso Miniaturists, published by 1913 Press, is his first book of poetry, and the first installment in the Third World Lover Trilogy (02/Majnun and 03/Porn W/Out Sex).