(To Be Seen by Iamos, Calchas and Teiresias

BY Eileen Tabios

He carves works that will immortalize
his name as “Anonymous” —

stone shrinks as the sage
peruses a sabotage

I was a fetal heap crumpled
against the other side of your door

Only statues can manifest
what moves me, moves me

Your broken bodies manifest
spaces between

signifying this world’s only
certainty: Uncertainty

Hippodameia today: incom
-plete with feet long gone

broken off at the ankles
prideful crack rising from

right eye to hairline
a missing left arm

She is raising her veil
against my gaze—

the beholder a reflection
she fears — Archaic Greece

feared chaos. Yet again
I look behind me

surreptitiously, in the way
of faux sages throughout history

 

Biography

EILEEN R. TABIOS has released nineteen print, four electronic and one CD poetry collections, an art essay collection, two books of fiction, and a poetry essay/interview collection. Recent releases include the relational elations of Orphaned Algebra with j/j hastain (Marsh Hawk Press, 2012), Silk Egg: Collected Novels (Shearsman Books, 2011) and The Thorn Rosary: Selected Prose Poems 1998-2010 (Marsh Hawk Press, 2011). Recent anthology publications include poems in La Alteración del Silencio: Poesía Norteamericana Reciente (The Alteration of Silence: Recent North American Poetry) co-edited by William Allegrezza and Galo Ghigliotto (Editorial Cuneta, Chile, 2011) as well as critical prose in the forthcoming Reading the Difficulties, an anthology on reading innovative contemporary American poetry co-edited by Thomas Fink and Judy Halden-Sullivan.

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