A poem (?) I did at a writers’ group based on this prompt. Charley said he’d like to have it for the archives (which don’t yet exist) so I’m typing it up emailing him and blogging it. The book of prompts is called “Finger Exercises for Poets” by Dorianne Laux.
Tag: poem
Atemporal Pisky Topologies, Simple – Non-Representational Poetry
Reposting this because I wanted to make a page for it in Evergreen Posts and because I thought the picture it was with was sub-par. “On top of the questions, seeing what fresh hell was upon them, they noticed that what had been one was many, and what had been uncut was now hashed….”
Hexylmathemagica Chaos Koans – 4/29/2017 – Non-representational poetry
[…] the tricksiest of the Pixies came alive in the ferment & brought the lightning. […] Puzzle piece insanity is, in fact, something anyone can develop. It takes only some conditions, or some habits, or some different blend of beans. […]
Latest iteration on my business card + Excerpted poem “We”
[…] Punch in, punch out; as the weary depart; you are alert on the headset; she is shifting packages among conveyors, up, down, across slides the latte. Clinkety clink go the coins and rustle of crumpled ones, out of pockets and into tip jars. Brake, stop, go, the drive thru, the sausage biscuits. The scrubs and IVs and X-Rays […]
Singular Fragments of Incarnation No. 2
Baristas set things in order / — clear surfaces / — clean windows / — near to closing time / — squeaky squeaky squeaky / — an item falls / — and Pink Pony Club / — — comes on the stereo / Singular Fragments of Incarnation / — sound of squirt bottle / — […]
Only If Cat
Happily they went about theirbusiness. Each one took theothers to hand, and told themin turn: “This above That,but only when Other. Notbetween Who, but only ifSad. When without Whistlesbut lightly with Care. Somebefore They and onlyif Wise. Trouble not Takenbut Weathered and Weasely.Some are for Bubbles and_________________________ only if Cat. This was the first postcard […]
A Typology of Voids
[…] the hypothesized taste of words left unspoken, the clear light of Buddhism, the mass dimension of those mega trillions of photons, & the lack of mice in unset traps.
In aping the rhetoric of others, one accrues signifiers one never intended, while by following the feet before you, […]
Singular Fragments of Incarnation
One hour at the libraryOne time brushing teeth before the mirrorOne page of one bookA fruit fly’s brief life“A blade of grass /A grain of sand /A moonlit sea /I’ll hold your hand”One moment of eye contactSingular fragments of incarnationKnowable to any personSplit from their contextsDescribed with one referenceOne long row of booksOne reclining womanOne […]
Three Things to Teach
[…] “I have but three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion”1
Anyone could write this
But only one someone did […]
Across the Interpersonal Chasm
[…] limitations between our understanding of one another; no one may know what kinds of conversations we have within, insofar as we even notice them — beyond and above, beneath and below, the biochemistry variance is infinite yet each one echoes each other infinitely across the interpersonal chasm. […]
Lost in Mist 