{"id":394,"date":"2020-12-10T15:26:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T20:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/?page_id=394"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:58:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:58:53","slug":"from-mandorla","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/publications\/from-mandorla\/","title":{"rendered":"From Mandorla"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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From Mandorla<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

From Mandorla<\/em>
\nanalyzing inter-office mail<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

for knowing: a clear memography alone may leave
\nin place each trace of all internal written stats
\nand keep you steno-pooled abreast of notes,
\nwithout demurs with excess ruse to ratify
\nor fax along at unrelenting market-ears;
\nfor post-effect analysis or show: if cleansing all
\nthat broken visual lines might clear
\nleaves still-life thoughts and alphabets
\nwith lucky letters laden with regret,
\nthe up-to-date and metrified shall gauge
\nand likely lull you thus until you’re free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

golf-ball sized hail<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

soon spread the shield
\nin lengths under foot
\ncame-teeming many tails
\nthe paths of torpedos’
\nuntamed vertical flight,
\ncrowds in the wake of
\nan untimed night-log vessel:
\nthe tag-question fear
\nof crystalline rounds,
\nwhat, after the fact, is.
\nthe storm is
\npassed and left its map,
\nthe wet-hard scents of
\nsomewhere else’s tapestry:
\nall invoked to envy
\nthe envoy heavens deemed
\nand sent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Letters of Wonder<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

for want of an unknown n
\nyou underline and come clean
\nto whet other than an appetite
\n(for wellness, welcomes, claires-de-lune)
\nthen slide past mixed floors of access
\nover doors of waves
\nunder a wharf of abundance in excess
\nand waxed-over trails of light
\n— days, not, and night —
\n(the wane of many lunar settings)
\nfinally granted your unlisted request
\n(to ignore a petite tythe
\nyou’d pay to harbor off desire)
\nand, thoroughly-wandered, you arrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

An Oversight of Supervision<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

A watchman, calculated capable
\nof an overtly outbound gaze or
\na quick glance over the shoulder
\nto gauge the speed of unbound frames
\nand motion-free induction alike,
\nlocked down by an oversight of supervision,
\nby allied pay-per-view stares,
\npraying the purveyors keep him
\nalways an underling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Finally a fragile bone
\nin the weakened wing of fowl
\ntorn like a page from the nest of flight.
\nA subwayed and unsightly mass
\nof vapor rising to dissipate
\nin a fitful field of vision,
\nscreened sededuced and left
\nwith empty wrists
\nlooking over a survey of
\nsimple-handed visage,
\ncountenances facing in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Charles A. Perrone<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1075,"featured_media":0,"parent":19,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-394","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1075"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/394\/revisions\/599"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}