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(Untitled)
The boughs cast back
and forth by the wind in
a day-long hole.
Later the cat jumps when the kitchen
door slams shut. I reopen
the gusting door
windows gasp.
Later I try to remember when
evening caught on my eyebrows
it stopped.
2008.07.13 -
friends, romans, countrypeeps, lend me your titles.
Consider the following to be "found poetry". I did not write it, but I kind of like it. Please read and comment on what you think its title should be.
By the same lady. And i've come on something else office ( Read more... ) -
crutchism.
Since I'm visiting the parents this week, I have ready access to New Yorker magazines. This week I read an article on Ezra Pound in the New Yorker's summer fiction issue. It touches on the importance of his belief in Fascism, and his invention of the Isms Imagism, and Vorticism.
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a continental obligation
after A Love Note Left Behind by DJ Whistle Punk
About Paris, jaundice
turns her cautionary eyes
toward the smoke-filled doorways
and the customs agents' hisses and
the lick of wounded monsters,
a wet of ethics,
not of morals. -
how to write.
Since you told me you hate ( Read more... ) -
unhot haiku.
O tragedy of
a hot woman bearing an
unhot purse. -
the cull
after Flask by Amanda Deutch,
Terminal Inferno by Amy HollowellAll writing about missing ( Read more... ) -
a beautiful dream.
Back in my last year in Iowa City, after college but before I'd moved away, I was living on Iowa Avenue with Todd and Melissa. It was a two-bedroom and they shared the other bedroom. I only mention them because they were there. It was at that apartment, in Iowa City, living with two roommates, after I'd written J my Christmas letter, and she ( Read more... ) -
drinks.
I've been reading that Bible of sexual advice from Nerve, Sex Advice From... (If you don't know - and who does, really? - it's a compendium of sage advice and opinions on sexual matters from many walks of life, including bloggers, aspiring Chippendalers, deli workers, slam poets, nudists, pool cleaners, twins, unemployed people, music critics, and ( Read more... )