Antonia Alexandra Klimenko: Yes, I affirmed…

Yes, I affirmed, staring at my eternally naked page, there is something so provocative about Meaning’s ghostly form. Something you can’t quite put your finger on—the mystery of its presence slowly developing and coming to light as in a photographer’s darkroom. Sometimes, one line has haunted me for years. Again, the same with music or even people. After the message is delivered and the words have fallen away like so much perfumed flesh, are we not left with essence? Is not any presence that has vanished from the realm of the physical world ever-present, if only in our inspired remembrance of it? It was then that the light filtered through the curtain and passed through me as all things pass. Breathing out. Breathing in. Breathing out. Breathing in. Ah, Spring! The invisible made visible, not in the sum of its parts, but in the greater Miracle of its totality.

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Antonia Alexandra Klimenko is the Writer/Poet in Residence for The Creative Process and the Poet in Residence for SpokenWord Paris. A nominee for the Pushcart Prize, The Best of the Net, and a former San Francisco Poetry Slam Champion, she is widely published. Her work has appeared in (among others) Jazz and Literature, XXI Century World Literature (which she represents France) and Maintenant : Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art archived at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Her selected poems On the Way to Invisible published by Opiate Books is now available. 

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