As Black as a Bird Flying Out of the Window Teasing sparrows gather tight bits of sticks, then crest to loft over hedges formed by soggy mud flows. Their beaks ferret out fresh meat then make a new nest as black as a bird flying out of the window. To loft over hedges formed by [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2009’
“it’s not like I ever” …
I took dancing lessons from the time I was six years old and other waking dreams Carnival lights are controlled by remote brain trusts sitting in tents, caged in narrow cells as long as high school football fields. One mind thinks yellow, another red, and so on. When the Tilt-a-Whirl looses its glint it means [...]
Tuesday, mispelled to reveal Sekuriz in late confessions
I have no idea what the title means, only that sekuriz is a totally random word. One I made up by hitting the keyboard and subtracting letters until I came back to 7. Of course, my personal and cultural syntax begs for vowels and consonants, so that I created a recognizable word that “might be”, [...]
red incantations
Incantations of blood and love Red sky at night: sailors’ delight. Red sky at morn, sailors: take warn! Mantras from my desert childhood loop, recite one chorus every time. I wonder at this sun. Sky, reinvented. The first time I set sail the rudder broke. Limp, the captain’s wheel impotent. No second chance. Step on [...]
posing as executive privilege, this NaPoWriMo-er is hitting the bottle
Posing As Executive Privilege Strike a happy balance. You’re (sic) ready-for-action attitude makes you a shining example in executive circles. Out of balance circles: the tire’s about to blow. Strike a backward balance: Your wicked specimens make you a hardscrabble sample in crystalline circles. Pose without regard for those seeing eyes. Leak a happy cadence: [...]
after a moth
This month at poem. we are looking at Ivy Alvarez’s “Moth.” While her poem seems simple, there is a depth of emotion connecting the narrator, and reader, to the moth’s dilemma, a matched trajectory. For my response poem I have tried to do the same, deliver parity to a particular spider’s dilemma, and mine. (Although [...]
great reads (on modern technology & other things) in case you missed them
From BLDGBLOG (a site about architecture and planning, usually!) comes “How the Other Half Writes: In Defense of Twitter,” an intelligent essay and response to Maureen Dowd’s OpEd in The New York Times. And, from Dr. Omed’s Tent Show Revival, a short response to a Tulsa Tea Party followed by “We are Little Sister, and [...]
How to Tie a Yellow Stimulator
Jill’s prompt today at Read Write Poem is about “how to.” My mind wandered to learning how to fly a tie, I mean tie a fly, a fly-fishing tie that is. I know nothing about fly-fishing. I am an angler when I do fish, which used to be occasionally and now is rarely. I have [...]
skeletons
A tumbled skeleton: A Penance to my Yarmulke on a Shabbat Not Celebrated We’ve careened off path enough to know senses remove the screen of mystic wax and match, the pulse at the dusk of another home. (Ritual has gone and packed up and traveled.) You savor the first night more for pleasure, and set [...]
haiku for the weekend
The place we stayed at (Starfish Point, more about that, later) was lovely. At the kitchen sink was a basket, filled with pieces of driftwood and messages from guests. I tried a haiku. (The one above is someone else’s message, but it fit. Take words where you can find them.) . . . . . [...]
