Born
in Dayton, Ohio in 1984 to a musical family, Eliot Cardinaux studied
jazz piano at the Manhattan School of Music from 2003-2006. After
sustaining a career in New York as an improvising musician, Cardinaux
took an interest in the art of poetry, and moved to Western
Massachusetts in 2008, where he read and wrote diligently for just over 6
years. Cardinaux then decided to return to school, and attained a
bachelor's in Contemporary Improvisation as a pianist at the New England
Conservatory in Boston. He is still active as both a pianist and poet
along the East Coast and in parts of Europe, and has gone on to produce
material in other mediums as well, including voice and film, as well as
graphic design.
In
2016, he founded The Bodily Press, a small chapbook publication and
record label through which he has released the works of other poets, as
well as several of his own albums and chapbooks, including, most
recently, Sweet Beyond Witness, and By the Hand.
Anima
This suffocation,
year of yesterday’s breezes
playing in my hair
the pines will answer:
I’ve seen its edges, but I
haven’t found it yet
on the walk at dusk
tomorrow will be — as dead,
as animal as
you, familiar
species, formless as the wounds
inflicted, witness.
Haiku on Leaving the City
I
To someone with hands:
pinhole, landscape; hand and strings,
while you have no land.
II
Clocks tick like always.
I gave the cat ice water.
Things are packed away.
III
Rather than writing,
the billboard needs changing, but
tonight I can’t reach.
IV
This bar is so loud;
I’d like to stop talking now,
so you can go on.
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