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Black Aperture
Poems
Matt Rasmussen
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Black Aperture
Poems
Matt Rasmussen
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In his moving debut collection, Matt Rasmussen faces the tragedy of his brother's suicide, refusing to focus on the expected pathos, blurring the edge between grief and humor. In "Outgoing, " the speaker erases his brother's answering machine message to save his family from "the shame of dead you / answering calls." In other poems, once-ordinary objects become dreamlike. A buried light bulb blooms downward, "a flower / of smoldering filaments." A refrigerator holds an evening landscape, "a tinfoil lake, " "vegetables / dying in the crisper." Destructive and redemptive, Black Aperture opens to the complicated entanglements of mourning: damage and healing, sorrow and laughter, and torment balanced with moments of relief.
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PoetryOUTGOING
Our answering machine still played your message,
and on the day you died Dad asked me to replace it.
and on the day you died Dad asked me to replace it.
I was chosen to save us the shame of dead you
answering calls. Hello, I have just shot myself.
answering calls. Hello, I have just shot myself.
To leave a message for me, call hell. The clear cassette
lay inside the white machine like a tiny patient
lay inside the white machine like a tiny patient
being monitored or a miniature glass briefcase
protecting the scroll of lost voices. Everything barely
protecting the scroll of lost voices. Everything barely
mattered and then no longer did. I pressed record
and laid my voice over yours, muting it forever
and laid my voice over yours, muting it forever
and even now. I’m sorry we are not here, I began.
LAND O’ LAKES
A tinfoil lake rattles the sun
as a canoe crosses it
as a canoe crosses it
approaching my shore.
The Native American girl
The Native American girl
walks toward me, kneels,
offers a golden box of butter,
offers a golden box of butter,
and then she’s on the box
I am holding.
I am holding.
Apparently, I’ve accepted.
Come, she says, we will
Come, she says, we will
burn beauty into something
even more mesmeric.
even more mesmeric.
It is evening inside
the refrigerator.
the refrigerator.
I lie down shivering
near the lake.
near the lake.
The giant red ring
hovers behind her,
hovers behind her,
generating warmth.
You must fall asleep
You must fall asleep
in your dream to wake up
in your life, she says.
in your life, she says.
I can hear the vegetables
dying in the crisper
dying in the crisper
and through the door,
the television weeping
the television weeping
openly, unashamed.
A POEM IN WHICH LEAVES AGAIN FIGURE PROMINENTLY
I fall asleep, waking to find
a poem in which leaves
a poem in which leaves
figure prominently. If you
tear all of the skin away
tear all of the skin away
leaving only the veins,
they are miniature trees,
they are miniature trees,
the poem says.
I nod off as it describes
I nod off as it describes
snow falling, warm as living skin.
The poem is right though,
The poem is right though,
warm snow would be nice
to lie down and sleep in.
to lie down and sleep in.
This leaf is orange,
my dream last night—poorly lit.
my dream last night—poorly lit.
Yet the snow falling though it
was whiter than real snow,
was whiter than real snow,
which isn’t really white at all
but the rejection of light before
but the rejection of light before
it melts into puddles the color
of whatever hovers above.
of whatever hovers above.
BURIAL
I buried a light bulb
in the garden and a flower
in the garden and a flower
of smoldering filaments
bloomed downward,
bloomed downward,
toward you. Grief comes
like patient lava
like patient lava
I always easily outrun
while our past becomes blank
while our past becomes blank
as an empty parking lot.
You have been dead half
You have been dead half
of my life, and yet you sit
at the kitchen table
at the kitchen table
in my apartment
with a prescription bottle
with a prescription bottle
full of bullets, reading
the directions aloud:
the directions aloud:
Do not take on an empty stomach.
Take one capsule every 24 hours.
Take one capsule every 24 hours.
Side effects may include...
You look up at me
You look up at me
and rub your eyes,
but I’m not there.
but I’m not there.
APERTURE
Opposite of closure,
a suicide’s grave
a suicide’s grave
never grows over.
My imagination carves
My imagination carves
each memory of you
smaller and smaller
smaller and smaller
into dust. The fall after
you murdered you,
you murdered you,
I burned your letter
in a mound of leaves
in a mound of leaves
on our lawn.
Blackened grass,
Blackened grass,
stairwell of ash,
a greener door
a greener door
grows there now
but not in me.
but not in me.
THE MOON
floats like a document
without a single word.
When it slips under
without a single word.
When it slips under
the horizon’s desk
we are left
with the definition
we are left
with the definition
of unilluminated.
Sight gives way
to the sound
Sight gives way
to the sound
of two clouds
colliding, breaking
each other apart.
colliding, breaking
each other apart.
What m...
Índice
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- I
- II
- III
- Acknowledgment
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APA 6 Citation
Rasmussen, M. (2013). Black Aperture ([edition unavailable]). LSU Press. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/877075/black-aperture-poems-pdf (Original work published 2013)
Chicago Citation
Rasmussen, Matt. (2013) 2013. Black Aperture. [Edition unavailable]. LSU Press. https://www.perlego.com/book/877075/black-aperture-poems-pdf.
Harvard Citation
Rasmussen, M. (2013) Black Aperture. [edition unavailable]. LSU Press. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/877075/black-aperture-poems-pdf (Accessed: 14 October 2022).
MLA 7 Citation
Rasmussen, Matt. Black Aperture. [edition unavailable]. LSU Press, 2013. Web. 14 Oct. 2022.