tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-207972412024-03-13T11:50:11.483-07:00_ Angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01680285413177946145noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20797241.post-58279407485818292018-09-08T13:00:00.000-07:002018-09-13T12:38:34.492-07:00Start Here <div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We are traveling.<br />
Milkweeds caught in the wire,<br />
a river overtopping the banks<br />
after a long wet winter—<br />
<br />
here you are made smaller.<br />
I’m going to tell you what happened<br />
right away. And then<br />
we can talk about it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There is something <br />
everybody knows.<br />From too far away, your voice spilling<br />
into the corners, grief-<br />
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we are already here.<br />
Leave the shadow, leave the glass,<br />
there is something.<br />
Start here, right away.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01680285413177946145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20797241.post-22414609578630293362018-05-12T10:30:00.000-07:002018-05-14T09:55:05.044-07:00 Firefly at the Experimental Jazz Concert<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Look a</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">t a distance and it makes sense. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Everything said, everything felt, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">all made sense. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So much need </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">to be set apart from the world. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is the song</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">you didn't know you wrote—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">locked outside the music,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">desperate wild blinking </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">toward the lights. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is so unlike you,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">laying there dying.</span><br />
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Angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01680285413177946145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20797241.post-87757011757523772852018-04-28T14:26:00.003-07:002021-06-07T14:04:39.832-07:007:40 Mark<div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
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<div class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Watch Sacramento police officers shoot Stephon Clark dead</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: left;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The Herald Sun, </b><b>Mar 21, 2018<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">
<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><i><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>WARNING: Graphic content. The Sacramento Police Department has released body cam footage of the shooting of Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man, in his grandparents' backyard. This footage is from camera 1. The shooting occurs near the 7:40 mark.</b></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif">After the long
wet winter,</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">all that time
didn’t find me <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">an ending. </span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">Do you remember?</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">I was forever,
that dark reel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">stalled in space<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">still alive at
the 6:20 mark,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">I can’t tell you
what <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">and then</span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">something is
spilling<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">urgent, my eyes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">let me be <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">brave<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">from far away,
running, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">Mom-mom’s backyard<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">the grass I laid,
giddy, as a boy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">some summers <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"> some fall<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">tapping on the
window like,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">member we found
that kitten?</span><br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">sliding to the ground like, </span></div>
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"></span><br /></span>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">how we play, waiting to wake,</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">already here.</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">alive at the 7:12
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">28 seconds
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">unexpected, terrible</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="text-align: right;">ordinary day</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">tiny eternity resting</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="text-align: right;">in my childhood</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">as if there was a
shelter</span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"> 8 seconds </span></span><br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">shiny screaming hole<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">red faced. tears, no sound</span><br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">that quiet kid</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"> splitting, insistent, I am</span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /><br /><br />-- -- -- -- -- -- -- --</span><br />
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Angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01680285413177946145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20797241.post-2811095229574108382018-04-27T18:51:00.000-07:002018-05-14T09:57:37.514-07:00The Story<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">O</span>n this day your time has come to take the story. This is the story of us -- of who we were, of who we are, of who we will become. Every child must learn the story. Every child must grow and tell the story. Take the story and give it to everyone you see. Tell the people they must take the story, take it and give it away. Put your words and poems in the story, so that when it goes you go, too. Tell the people they must put their words and poems in the story, so that when it goes they go, too. Tell the people what I have told you on this day -- your time to take the story. The story of us - of who we were, of who we are, of who we will become. Tell them the story. And the story is:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span>Angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01680285413177946145noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20797241.post-63639397368674696272017-11-27T20:30:00.000-08:002018-01-31T12:06:14.592-08:00Before the Tide Many silences,<br />
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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circling back into sand<o:p></o:p></div>
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by the glass<o:p></o:p></div>
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by the window<o:p></o:p></div>
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this is how you land. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Plunge the dark where <o:p></o:p></div>
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all the fine beasts<o:p></o:p></div>
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dive towards sky.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Say more than you have to.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Each pebble a witness<o:p></o:p></div>
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promise and music,<o:p></o:p></div>
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here you are made smaller.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Eating our language,<br />
the song gets stronger.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So much common magic,<o:p></o:p></div>
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an ocean is dreaming<o:p></o:p></div>
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of washing<o:p></o:p></div>
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into the graveyard<br />
to find it’s flower.</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
Angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01680285413177946145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20797241.post-2863116627938956172017-10-17T19:30:00.000-07:002018-01-31T12:10:44.851-08:00Surrendering the HorsesA stranger, delicate conversation,<br />
first sapling<br />
sweet yeast,<br />
handmade corn tortillas.<br />
This moment,<br />
a terminal demonstration<br />
12 minutes from<br />
childhood,<br />
<br />
all the fine beasts<br />
broken. Soft eyes close<br />
in 10 fragile ways.<br />
The pony's bridle, cart<br />
a cornered, tattered toy.<br />
Try to imagine it.<br />
The great plunge<br />
foundered, finally.<br />
Hard to keep<br />
the last mares<br />
from bolting forever into the fields.<br />
<br />Angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01680285413177946145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20797241.post-15208399544673646532017-09-18T10:01:00.000-07:002018-09-13T12:21:02.201-07:00Sadie Dreams of Her Mother Walking Into the Ravine<div class="MsoPlainText">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I agree: it must be the seasons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You think you are seeing,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But you are not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hard to imagine either of us that young,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">yet it happened.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Listening to her family in the next room<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">while laying twisted in fever,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">never again to hear a bell<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">without hearing the bell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The package left, suddenly in the night,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">unopened--</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">with some relief, you watched her walk away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and knew not to stop her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Soft and letting go</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> through the moss to the leaves above--</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">easing into the water, eyes open.</span></div>
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Angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01680285413177946145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20797241.post-33521366129836832432017-09-17T22:30:00.000-07:002018-09-13T12:24:09.179-07:00Take it Easy, Take it Hard<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">For Bubba</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span></span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the winter I wait for summer.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the thick of summer, it seems like cooler,</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">more tolerable weather will never circle back around. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Days and weeks are spiraling past, while <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">simultaneously</span> the bus never seems to round the corner. My friend, you write: <span style="font-style: italic;">Innocents, awaiting the divine, suddenly propelled forward on the edge of an alien tsunami. Fifty years gone in a blink.</span> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Knowing that fifty days and fifty years can blink and drag and blink and drag... how can I argue? </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">How can I deny it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Instead I will say this:</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Go get Marly, walk down and let him splash in the river and shake his natty fur. Sit in the garden near Phebe's witchy thistle patch. Sit in the grass, lay down in the grass. Rest your head on that smelly precious dog. Light a bonfire, drink wine from a coffee cup on the darkening porch. Dance until the record skips then tell jokes in the kitchen, mosquito slapping. Scratch your beard, take a swim and shake your natty fur. Let your grown son be a child. Take it easy and take it hard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Go get Marly and walk down to the river,<br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I will watch for the bus finally rounding the corner</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and find myself aboard.</span></div>
Angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01680285413177946145noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20797241.post-75970067758973098732017-09-10T18:00:00.000-07:002018-01-31T12:10:31.403-08:00Follow You Home (3)<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Another thing,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">it could be just a matter of evening.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">An afternoon holding night at arm's length</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">before easing her into the ground.<br /><br />A walk where dusk is coming quickly,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">surrounded by plum trees. Fortune, a stray cat following you home.<br /><br />Even if you don't believe<br />wisdom can be just what it sounds like,<br />a memory with a shadow curling into itself.<br />Familiar hands at the end of mystery limbs.<br /><br />Consider the end a becoming dark,<br />not exactly, but getting there.<br />Forever falling, never landing. </span>Angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01680285413177946145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20797241.post-89280419294024901882017-06-18T07:32:00.000-07:002018-03-12T07:33:45.355-07:00Letter To Fortune <br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fortune, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The alley giddy with needles, chamomile soap,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">the old notes in hard pressed script. Four marbled
strays remain,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">everything is ordinary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I write from under the tree where we met that
strange blooming fall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Do you remember me? In the ginkgo’s curling
shadow, I was the one made small.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Though early, dusk comes quickly, still. I am
traveling. The voices all spill into corners. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My limbs are a mystery. It is exactly what it sounds
like. I have never left.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
<br />Angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01680285413177946145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20797241.post-56932158906306095692016-06-18T23:45:00.000-07:002017-04-04T06:56:16.282-07:00Follow You Home (II) <br />
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<o:p> </o:p><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ever recall a memory and there is a thing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">underneath it? Like a
shadow, <br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Tonight, the ginkgos will lose their leaves<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">all at once.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The neighbor’s yard is drying, curling inside itself.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Streets fill with ghosts, all remembering.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Dusk comes quickly, leaves a shadow<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">on the porch. <br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A stunned rose has found herself bloomed,<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">right here in late October.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I want to be told something.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I want wisdom, even if it only sounds like it.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The tomato plants need to be broken the news:<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Winter is an old man waiting,<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Fall is a teenager following you home.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He may get to the end,<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">it will surprise him, too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01680285413177946145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20797241.post-52522894285250302932016-05-16T07:13:00.000-07:002018-09-13T12:25:33.443-07:00Each Port<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Let’s begin again, at the end.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">From the window, watching you<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">twirl into existence.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The pup chasing the bees<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">chasing the shadows, trees.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Urgent blooming<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">spun back like glass<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">crunch sealed, ice packed<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the wind curling <br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">into the corners.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Pipes grind to a halt<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">dry leaves tumbling all at once<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the dark day, the blue morning<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">dusk comes quickly,<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ginko now bare.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A stunned rose bloomed<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">right here in late October,<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">we are saying goodbye.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now the luxuriant rolling valley,<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">willow bowing into the creek<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the long stretch of promise<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">algae on the pond, goose shit<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">milkweed wishes, sticky pickers and blazing<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the sun</span><o:p></o:p></div>
<br />Angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01680285413177946145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20797241.post-74371768104544802092016-05-15T09:50:00.000-07:002016-12-12T16:53:32.565-08:00(Poem Longer Than One Line) <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif";"><u>The Hermit Crab Bought
on a Weekend Whim</u></span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif";"><br />
Lived on for years. No one expected this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01680285413177946145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20797241.post-82620318684089845812016-05-14T09:54:00.000-07:002018-09-13T12:26:19.244-07:00Summer’s Lament The spring I like<br />
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is summer. Obvious<o:p></o:p></div>
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her clinging ways,<o:p></o:p></div>
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pawing at your neck, your thighs,<o:p></o:p></div>
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climbing your back<o:p></o:p></div>
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for the walk home.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Summer is insecure.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s true. Though no one <o:p></o:p></div>
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admits it. She’s anxious,<o:p></o:p></div>
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moody. It’s in the genes,<o:p></o:p></div>
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can’t be helped. A true beauty<o:p></o:p></div>
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who will smile<o:p></o:p></div>
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then hurl a wineglass<o:p></o:p></div>
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at your head. She’s sorry,<o:p></o:p></div>
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she’s hot, has no idea<o:p></o:p></div>
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what got into her –<o:p></o:p></div>
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except the humidity.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s a lot of sullen shit happening. <br />
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that bitch fall, who gets<o:p></o:p></div>
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ovations just for showing up.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And people so afraid <o:p></o:p></div>
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of winter, they just keep<o:p></o:p></div>
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their mouths shut.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Shuffling along, beggars<o:p></o:p></div>
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clamping down, baring cold<o:p></o:p></div>
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like birth duty. <o:p></o:p></div>
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A trip planned, summer,<o:p></o:p></div>
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never taken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<br />Angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01680285413177946145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20797241.post-25213794014244707112015-09-26T06:00:00.000-07:002017-04-04T06:48:43.322-07:00Things Written Down to Cassendre Xavier's Voice<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So, this small storm comes on, a prickly tidal wave :<br />Some<br />how<br />her<br />song<br />travels to the skin, lower back, ears, lower</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and back.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Can feel even as we hear, or we are not hearing until we first feel.<br />It’s a chill, a warning, a takeover.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So, this small storm comes on, a prickly tidal wave :<br />it sounds like with-with, heart stop, with –</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It sounds like learning, learning, learning, lifting burning.<br />Willing, willing willing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It sounds like looking back, looking forward, looking-</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Joy can be mine?</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have learned</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have learned</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the path Less Broken, less broken.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What would you do what would you do what would you do what would you<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>do <br />if I told you:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>I am not back</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>I’m back</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>I’m not back </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>I'm</i><br />not ready not ready not ready<br />never ready <br />for pain.</span></span></div>
Angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01680285413177946145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20797241.post-17624633478680621802015-08-30T21:41:00.000-07:002016-09-23T14:52:48.467-07:00Elegy (II) for Gil Kalt<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"></span><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Gil,</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 100%;">I dreamed again of you last night.</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"> In the dimming light, your eyes</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"> seemed green, and true</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 100%;">I am no longer sure they were blue.</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 100%;">Oh! and your feet were bare </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 100%;">but </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 100%;">striking more was your hair, a swept</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"> up affair much less you than those eyes: </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 100%;">green not blue.</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 100%;">Last night I smelled again your salt and your sea, </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"> laid my head close to your heart, a mystery </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 100%;">warmly</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"> caged</span><span style="font-size: 100%;">. I clutched you like a land bird after a day<br />stuck in a tree. You smiled at me. </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />I am a child still grasping </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"> but no longer asking </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">you to stay.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Less than a month after joining the police department as Philadelphia's only open gay officer, Thomas G. Kalt Jr. took his own life today by shooting himself once in the head near the historic First Bank of the United States at Third and Chestnut Streets." -</span><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 85%;">-</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 85%;">Philadelphia Inquirer</span></b></div>
Angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01680285413177946145noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20797241.post-17995688266605881632015-02-02T22:23:00.000-08:002016-12-13T07:12:59.650-08:00Selling the Farm<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b></b><i style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">sestina for my brothers</i><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">I dreamed again of our old farm last night.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">In sleep the land is forever changing,</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Chestnut mares constantly running, running,</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">their finely chiseled forms slick with cool sweat –</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">I see their muscles flexing, fluid skin,</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">I smell the strong musk of manure, sweet grain.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">The sky opened up – a starburst of grain;</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">the silo shot like a rocket last night,</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">oats showered dried earth and the smooth skin</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">of the mares, their shapes and colors changing</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">as I, too, begin to move, my own sweat</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">dripping, my bare feet slapping dirt, running.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">The orchard shook, fruit fell from our running</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">thick pungent sumac patches bent like grain</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">while my feet cracked and my eyes stung with sweat,</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">the pounding of hard hooves rattled the night,</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">in moving through acres I was changing,</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">my own muscles flexing beneath my skin.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">The mares’ thick switching tails flick at my skin,</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">I don’t know why I continue this running.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Am I also frightened by the changing</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">sky and the explosions of glistening grain</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">shooting forth, bright tiny jets in the night?</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Bending graceful necks to drink, the mares, sweat</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">pours from their bodies becoming streams of sweat,</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">cascading from smooth coats and slickened skin</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">draining into the dried earth and dark night.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">The mares begin once again their running,</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">bodies like wet chestnuts, manes like light grain.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">I move along the fields, body changing</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">all the while running to avoid changing;</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">the slipping away of the farm like sweat</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">from our bodies, the sting of the grain</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">as it pelts, welts and sticks to our wet skin.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Then I realize it’s the earth that’s running –</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">a huge treadmill spinning the farm into night.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">We grew up with foals, whose coats changed like our mixed skin –</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">our futures sliding apart, spreading like the sweet sweat </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">of the horses that run only through the high grain fields of my dreams at night.</span><br />
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<i style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Note on the form:<br />The sestina is divided into 6 sestets (six line stanzas) and 1 triplet called an envoi which is just a concluding stanza that is half the size of the rest. It is usually unrhymed and works by repeating the end words of each line. The envoi contains, in any order, all of the six end-words. The catch is that one has to be buried in each line and another must be at the end of the line. The pattern for repeating the words is like this: (stanza A) 123456, (stanza B) 615243. This 615243 pattern is how each of the next stanzas are made. </i><br />
<i style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Winner of</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> The Julia Fonville Smithson Prize</span><i style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">, this is my first Sestina.</i>Angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01680285413177946145noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20797241.post-33097900942144680122015-01-06T20:46:00.000-08:002016-12-13T09:26:25.561-08:00Final Exam<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Believe that the throat</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">is meant to be so bruised.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Ruin the soft blue-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">the curve of a vein</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">let this sharpness become pain,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">say: this is nothing.Nothing is this: say</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />it has no name,<br />make a game, then;<br />call it a kiss, missing<br />the idea completely.<br />Let your eyes cloud over,<br />mind crowd over, just forget it.<br /><br />This is unimportant:<br />we all live for the surprise<br />of the lies that keep us up.<br />Tip your cup to the dog.Test yourself, test yourself.<br />This wavering is no dream.</span>Angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01680285413177946145noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20797241.post-77197025404613086302014-02-20T14:56:00.000-08:002016-12-13T09:19:12.718-08:00Blind Foal<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sweet Jesus, grant me the power to delve </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">deeper, deeper still: </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">cracking it all up,unsheathing, splitting everything </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">then leaving it out in the sun, exposed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Give me some bitterness and irony</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">like the blind foal born when I was ten,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pushed out slick and steaming,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">tearing his mother with urgent hooves–</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">then mercy-shot a day later.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(The mare stood, her tender parts swollen and stitched,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">missing the colt’s nubby mouth nudging her belly. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All that work for what</span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">?)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don’t listen, if at some future date,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I beg for release, pray for numbness. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I may say different,but this is what I really want. Really–</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to scream at the difficult moments, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">s</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ay the awkward things. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let my flustered lovers leave me,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">let heartache leave me brave.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To remember and shudder; let some pain drive me into corners</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">collecting the God almighty ashes and dust, making my own.</span>Angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01680285413177946145noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20797241.post-24011179465168048792013-11-03T08:28:00.000-08:002014-02-26T08:30:34.994-08:00Stoop<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">for JQO</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span><i>Now do you think of me</i></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">as nettling around you?</span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I don't know how to be</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I don't know where to stand,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">put my hands --find a way to</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">join you on your stoop.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Lets draw figures in this mud;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">your speak</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I can no longer speak,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">your space is so far away.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Walking lightly to your door:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">where are you now?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and now?</span><br />
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<br />Angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01680285413177946145noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20797241.post-25519912387988605132012-09-23T15:30:00.000-07:002012-12-05T09:13:34.771-08:00Live on WXPN<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;">Listen to me and other local artists --some amazing tales and tunes!<br /><br />View:<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/calendar/0910.php#27" style="color: #3333ff;"> Live at Kelly Writers House.</a></span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Episode 83</span></span> Produced and hosted by Erin Gautsche.</span></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 85%; font-weight: normal;"><br /><span style="font-size: 100%;">Click names below to select individual performance, or </span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/LiveKWH/2010/Live_KWH_83/Live-83_KWH-UPenn_09-27-10.mp3"><span style="color: #3366ff; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 100%;">Listen to Full program.</span></span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/LiveKWH/2010/Live_KWH_83/1_Gautsche-Erin_intro_Live-83_KWH-UPenn_09-27-10.mp3" style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;">Erin Gautsche</a><span style="color: #3366ff; font-weight: bold;"> </span>- Introduction</span><br />
<a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/LiveKWH/2010/Live_KWH_83/2_Hogan-Angel_intro_Live-83_KWH-UPenn_09-27-10.mp3" style="color: #3333ff; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">Angel Hogan</a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>- Introduction</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/LiveKWH/2010/Live_KWH_83/3_Hogan-Angel_reading_Live-83_KWH-UPenn_09-27-10.mp3" style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;">Angel Hogan</a> - Reading</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/LiveKWH/2010/Live_KWH_83/4_Walton-Leah_intro_Live-83_KWH-UPenn_09-27-10.mp3" style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;">Leah Walton</a> - Introduction</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/LiveKWH/2010/Live_KWH_83/5_Walton-Leah_reading_Live-83_KWH-UPenn_09-27-10.mp3" style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;">Leah Walton</a> - Reading</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/LiveKWH/2010/Live_KWH_83/6_Bellenoit-Ross_intro_Live-83_KWH-UPenn_09-27-10.mp3" style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;">Ross Bellenoit</a><span style="color: #3333ff;"> </span>- Introduction</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/LiveKWH/2010/Live_KWH_83/7_Bellenoit-Ross_performance_Live-83_KWH-UPenn_09-27-10.mp3" style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;">Ross Bellenoit</a> - Performance</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/LiveKWH/2010/Live_KWH_83/8_Thomas-Eric_intro_Live-83_KWH-UPenn_09-27-10.mp3" style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;">Eric Thomas</a><span style="color: #3333ff;"> </span>- Introduction</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/LiveKWH/2010/Live_KWH_83/9_Thomas-Eric_reading_Live-83_KWH-UPenn_09-27-10.mp3" style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;">Eric Thomas</a> - Reading</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/LiveKWH/2010/Live_KWH_83/10_Mosley-Katonya_intro_Live-83_KWH-UPenn_09-27-10.mp3" style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;">Katonya Mosley</a><span style="color: #3333ff;"> </span>- Introduction</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/LiveKWH/2010/Live_KWH_83/11_Mosley-Katonya_reading_Live-83_KWH-UPenn_09-27-10.mp3" style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;">Katonya Mosley</a> - Reading</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/LiveKWH/2010/Live_KWH_83/12_McCarry-Mike_intro_Live-83_KWH-UPenn_09-27-10.mp3" style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;">Mike McCarry</a><span style="color: #3333ff;"> </span>- Introduction</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/LiveKWH/2010/Live_KWH_83/13_McCarry-Mike_reading_Live-83_KWH-UPenn_09-27-10.mp3" style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;">Mike McCarry</a> - Reading</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/LiveKWH/2010/Live_KWH_83/14_Rials-Tre_intro_Live-83_KWH-UPenn_09-27-10.mp3" style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;">Tre Rials</a> - Introduction</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/LiveKWH/2010/Live_KWH_83/15_Rials-Tre_reading_Live-83_KWH-UPenn_09-27-10.mp3" style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;">Tre Rials</a> - Reading</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/LiveKWH/2010/Live_KWH_83/16_Bellenoit-Ross_closing-intro_Live-83_KWH-UPenn_09-27-10.mp3" style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;">Ross Bellenoit</a> - Closing Performance Intro</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/LiveKWH/2010/Live_KWH_83/17_Bellenoit-Ross_closing-performance_Live-83_KWH-UPenn_09-27-10.mp3" style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;">Ross Bellenoit</a> - Closing Performance</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/LiveKWH/2010/Live_KWH_83/18_Gautsche-Erin_closing_Live-83_KWH-UPenn_09-27-10.mp3" style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;">Erin Gautsche</a> - Closing Remarks</span>Angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01680285413177946145noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20797241.post-71720037916957685752012-09-11T22:00:00.000-07:002012-09-12T11:46:16.716-07:00Diving<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
After a certain depth, there is no light. Or at least, there is neither hope nor promise of light again. At this level, it’s easy to imagine you are seeing bright bursts or sparks, but truly-- the light is gone.<br />On his first descent, Sean felt the darkness encase his skull as snug as a dirt-bike helmet. He thought of the time his cousin Benita locked him in the empty silo. He thought of how he stood, blinking rapidly with his arms helplessly outstretched to form a sagging “T.” On that hot day, inside the silo it was cool and the muffled whirring of the owls above him made Sean feel exposed. Soft fluttering, nothing. When panic finally settled in it was immense and total. Sean opened his mouth to scream and found his lungs deflated; he inhaled one oat-dust filled gasp and then fell face first into a soft pile of droppings. When the tiny door was flung open some time later Sean peered up to see Uncle Jim with a cigarette clamped between his teeth, cursing Benita.</div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Encased in such darkness, what a welcome relief the light. </i></span>Angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01680285413177946145noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20797241.post-90284373251107284402012-08-15T18:55:00.000-07:002018-07-11T13:24:33.523-07:00Philly Vs. Chicago Slam: "Mortified"<object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube.com/v/7e3acLcSdZQ&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="https://www.youtube.com/v/7e3acLcSdZQ&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object>Angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01680285413177946145noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20797241.post-79916839364359805162012-06-02T21:18:00.000-07:002012-12-03T13:58:56.336-08:00I've been "Cartooned"<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c8d_AOQf9r0/TwM4nHqrmeI/AAAAAAAAAl8/dGjncvCCzjA/s1600/Angel_SlamCard.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5693456598650558946" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c8d_AOQf9r0/TwM4nHqrmeI/AAAAAAAAAl8/dGjncvCCzjA/s320/Angel_SlamCard.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 232px;" /></a>Thanks to First Person Arts!Angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01680285413177946145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20797241.post-42989423392941483032012-05-13T09:00:00.000-07:002012-12-05T09:22:43.237-08:00Asleep with the TV, Waking up to "Cheaters"<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">"He was always</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">at the club."</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">"You </span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">were my friend </span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">for thirty years."</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">"What the [bleep]?"</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">"Who are you? </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-style: italic;">Who are you</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">"Why </span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">didn't you </span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">just tell her."</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">"Get out of my house!"</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">"Oh, SNAP!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">"How long</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">have you been married?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">"No-no no-no-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">no-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">no-no"</span><br />
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<i style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">...Double life, double life</i><br />
<i style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></i><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">"He's got a gun!</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: #333333;"> --------------------------------------</span> " </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">("It ain't loaded.")</span><br />
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<i style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Investigation</span>, Day Two</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">"I told you when,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">we first got together:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">you weren't going to </span><i style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">play me</i><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">"Open the door, Dewey.</span><br />
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<i style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Open the door"</i>Angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01680285413177946145noreply@blogger.com3