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Riverfront in June


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Denouement the Sentimental

--something about a cerulean pageant, or

a sunbeam visible through a cloud of exhaled smoke

calls from the fabric of the paper...the grainy,

filled-with-flower-petals kind I like

for scribbling when no one's looking.

(I have destroyed myself in your image) snarls up

at me from that silky surface,

a slithering sigh rebounding ( Read more... )

Overdue

I guess enough time has passed to give an update on what's been going on lately. Sorry if I've been cagey with anyone, but I wanted to make absolutely certain I had some sort of grasp on what was what, and enough time to regain a bit of composure. I've had a tough time answering "What's going on?" questions, so here it is in a nutshell.

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Delineation

Today I tried putting things in order
And realized that I can't grasp time--
Why sand? and Why a stream? made sense
In the context of a fish wondering how to burrow
Through land.

Water is just another form of dirt, she said,
Reminding me of transformation, and the quest
For enough heat to push one thing into another.
Vaporization. ( Read more... )

Being po (can't even afford the last two letters), this year's "spring break" has been spent catching up on reading and giving Dungeons and Dragons Online a try. Come tuesday, though, I need to have an essay ready. One of the options we were given was to do a "Travel Narrative" of a place we visited. Another was to write about a historical event ( Read more... )

Three books of poetry by Mary Ann Samyn. One by Charles Wright. The collected works of W.H. Auden. The complete works of William Shakespeare. Drury's Creating Poetry. Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus. Bugela's The Art and Craft of Poetry. Kinzie's A Poet's Guide to Poetry. A Writer's Book of Days. The Penguin Dictionary of Epigrams. Merriam-Webster's ( Read more... )

Dominatrix Acquitted in Bondage Death

During his closing argument to the jury, prosecutor Robert Nelson put on a black leather mask with a zippered mouth opening and re-enacted the bondage session. With both hands, he reached back and clutched the top of a blackboard as if strapped to the rack. Then he hung his head as if dead.
Law school tuition ( Read more... )

Punxsutawney Phil says there will be six more weeks of winter.

What's this "more" business? We've barely had a dusting of snow so far. Mother Nature is seriously off her meds lately.

Oh, well. Happy Imbolc!