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: writing
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….”
Your Dishonor – Postcard Microfiction
My first real postcard poem in a while. I guess I’ve grown a bit bored with the precomposed printed text blocks so I’ll be doing these again. But it’s election season and I’ve got stuff to advertise so I won’t be entirely giving up on the precomposed text blocks.
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 […]
I Vote Because – VoteForward.org
Vote Forward (https://votefwd.org) connects volunteers to voters to increase voter turnout without resorting to partisanship. I have updated my statement that I’ve used on Vote Forward letters and also in my own postcard campaigns. It’s included below. I still have some of the Victory 2024 postcards left and I have been printing out and gluesticking […]
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. […]
Night Notes
“Night Notes”, a poem with irregular rhythm. First draft was 2/2/2017, has been extensively cut down because parts were mostly incoherent. A movement awakened, a crowd exposed.Who holds the loudspeakers? Whoweathers the trolls? How long dothey carry? How long hold the seams?What must think the neighbors, andwhat words do they speak? Whatmethods to mend? What […]
Lost in Mist 