By Atsuro Riley
Romey's Order is an indelible series of poems voiced via an invented (and artistic) boy-speaker referred to as Romey, set along a river within the South Carolina lowcountry.
As the word-furious eye and voice of those poems, Romey urgently records--and attempts to order--the gadgets, inscape, accidents, and idiom of his "blood-home" and adolescence international. Sounding out the nerves and nodes of language to remodel "every burn-mark and blemish," to 'bind our river-wrack and leavings," Romey seeks to forge ultimately (if even for a second) a chord within which he may well stay. closely visceral, aural, oral, Atsuro Riley's poems bristle with musical and creative pleasures, with story-telling and picture-making of a brand new and thoroughly unforeseen type.
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Passed —more in order scorching hibachi-coal— from cord-mother to (hired) milk-mother to skin-folks, foot of Fuji. Yasuji-san (she says sometimes). My cousin. Dug up, stole yams for me. struggle turnips. Bokugo-time, halfed his rice. Her rice-life now (river-oaked hereabouts) near-underground, with chopsticks. in the back of backs. Night-kitchened. Black of the dirt-shed (quick) if Daddy’s excessive: —Act American! Oku = Clack-scrabbling in closets. One closet (pitch-layered, like lacquer) for Japan-pairs and -tissue: (My-sized! ) sandal-shoes, wood and stilted. A wood-haunched (nutmeat-tiny) undergo with a fish. Clinch-carved carp-couples, pick-intricate as pecans. Dish as koi (in fin-chipped china); koi as dish. Shhhh is the center-sound —and her shelter-hole— in hello ro shi ma mushroom. Minomushi —bag-worms— make putting bag-rooms from leaves (and straw, and silk-spit glue) and seal themselves inside of them. Her (slipcased) bug-book exhibits one camouflaged as beech. excessive peaches time our hill used to be white. Like moons in bushes. We’d sewed and hung cocoons, every one fruit. For coloration in fact. Of paper. That. Bokugo used to be this gap we dug we closed ourself within it. So. Shhhhh. bell The heard-tell how her baby’d burned downrivering and rippling. Rill and wave of chicken/prayer/purlow murmuring again. Brackwater cove-woods via her marsh-yard oak-creaking and -crying. Mourn-cranes and eave-crow and crape-blinded home windows keening black. Raining; wrack. The grieve-mother Malindy Jean porch-planking brunt and planging. Breasting river (crossing-over) songs with cast iron inside of ’em. The dwell heft-fact scorch-skillet willow-strung low and placing. Her heaving shovel-hafts and oars to make it ring. fosterling-song Hadn’t he come to us out from County domestic cleaved to a caul-swaddle textile (of coarse croker-sack weave) he forever plucked and wrung? hutch —by means of what they are saying From again while it used to be Nam time I inform you what. Them days males boys long gone darkish groves rose like Vietnam bamboo. Aftergrowth anything lousy. eco-friendly have mercy souls the following noticeable camouflage eternal. Nary a one of many brung-homes brung domestic entire. Mongst tar-pines come across this box-thing labored from scrapwood. places me a lot myself in brain of a rabbit-crouch. Is it extra a meat-safe. Set there concealed bedded there having a look all of the international like a coffin. someone cares to are inclined to it like a spring will get tendered clears the leaves! Whosoever equipped it set cord window-screen down the perimeters. lengthy approximately 5 foot or thereabouts shut kinfolk to a dog-crate. A human must slump. Closes over heavy this hingey-type lid on it like a casket. Swearing to Jesus wadn’t it eye-of-pine laid down for the ground. Remembering the Garner twins Carl and Charlie come domestic mute. Cherry-bombs 4th of July them either belly-scuttling lower than the home. Their crave of pent-places ditchpipes. Mongst tar-pines encounter this box-thing labored from scrapwood. From again while it used to be Nam time I inform you what. roses the home with the nick- and snigger-name laugh and Grunt. refrained from trailer-house, (pocked) scorn-brunt.