I'm awash in poetry this week! But first: MacDiva on conservative bake sales and free speech.
Gorgeous stuff from Nick Piombino, brutally excised here:
This, in fact, *is* experience, a reasonably
Typical concoction of anxiety, ecstacy, distraction, relief & despair,
All held together by wishes and hairpins,
Already falling apart at the moment that it started,
Zooming, booming , bursting, flaccid & odd,
Lying, standing, turning, stretching & bent,
Embarassed, victorious, diseased, cured, unifed & alone.
And Sawako Nakayasu:
"A trail of anything - insects, hamburgers, bicycles, popsicles, miniature lightening bolts, road maps - anything..."
And on Tram Spark:
I'd like to take apart some brakes just now,
find a socket, fit a ratchet to the socket,
fit the socket to a bolt, try the steel spring
adapter that goes round corners.
And finally from new blogger Barbara Jane Reyes, who makes me blush in an earlier post:
tell me a silence. i prefer your silence.
away. fact. utterance.
seams. negotiate.
notion. line. body. spill.
leaves. bury. face.
practice. contain today.
house life. exact lie.
And I'm listening to the most awesome version of Spiral Starecase's "More Today Than Yesterday" -- this one by Shirley Scott and the Soul Saxes. With David Newman! Hank Crawford! Richard Tee! Chuck Rainey! Bernard Purdie!
Posted by the wily filipino at October 11, 2003 02:03 PM