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Guise of the Beloved

from Evocations: Sketches of Style by Rusty Kjarvik

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Featuring a lyrical evocation from the collection, Sketches of Style and chapbook, Muse for the Wounded, Guise of the Beloved expresses thematic tides of visceral belonging amid landscapes both supernatural and inhuman in an age when the human body is more and more experienced only in its violent rending apart.

Yet, musical undertones, both electronic as acoustic, ring clear throughout, simultaneously presenting the source of human life, as our fate. In the commotion of bewildering psychic momentum, there the muse stands patient and waiting to receive the wounded, who with eyes of intoxication and skin of vulnerability, senses a way beyond and through the immense and spectacular Fear of Being.

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Laughable counterpart
And guise of the beloved,

Faring terror
And the deathless scare within childish pride,

The fostered eyes
That plunge with the strength of the predator’s stare

Into infinity
And the terminal plague of survival

Marching by
Currents stepping like waves over the stone-headed martyrs,

Staved off
From one life inside,

Dry and cruel,
Commotion’s door opens to the streaming gore,

Lush and timed
With solar flare

Love
Over an unearthly rush hour

Painted fame twisting and writhing
In the soundless urban deep,

A rustic, inflamed few,
Whose solemn grasp partakes in the early break

From an inevitable aftermath
Draining the rage from our animal brain

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from Evocations: Sketches of Style, released October 15, 2013

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Rusty Kjarvik Brooklyn, New York

My ancestors are from the lands in and around what is now Norway, Poland, Germany and Greece. They lived above the Arctic Circle, spoke Yiddish, were Romaniote Greek, English settlers during the revolutionary war of America, and from Germany pioneered in 19th century Alberta, Canada where they also took Blackfoot names. They were buried in religious fame; and so I also go by Menachem ben Asser. ... more

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