Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Comment on My Ranked List of 30 Best Po' Bloggers Discovered This Year on Justin Evans Blog

... I posted this morning, except that it was over 3000 characters and wouldn't post so I post it here:
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(My response to this post of Justin Evans and this)


Hi there! No validation (isn't that for the DMV?) but I'd gladly offer some editing suggestions if you'd like - having been at it for as long as you've been alive. (33 years married to the Muse this summer.) As I once tried to explain to Tony R., it's as if you're a master framer and you walk into a house with great paintings or fine photos, but they're hung crooked. It's hard not to want to just nudge them into place. And it's better to ask first than attempt to do it while no one's looking. Or worse, while the whole world is watching and declare yourself a SOP a few centuries prematurely.

Hey, I can't read everything and, unlike Tony, I don't know everyone, so rest assured, this is a virgin blog I'm reading here. How do you do?

And, my list is not people who post the best poetry from other people (or self-same SOPS: self-created Schools for fish in the same pond) but the "Best of the Best Poets" who blog that I've discovered this (my first) year of blogging and discovering blogs based upon their own poems I've read on their blog or live links to poems on their template published on the net -- whatever of their work is available on their blogs to read.

Bottom line? Does it make me write? Write well? Write poems? Good poems do.

Sorry, but eeze my job (Job's job & that' ain't no reference to an Apple) and it's March, the ranking month. I've spent all February & March as I usually do, ranking poets over poets for various contests, panels, awards, recommendations for programs, conferences, awards, CWP students, TAs, and this year, reviewing "Digerati" which to most folk in the Po'Biz world spells: Bad Poetry. NOT SO! I say, which is also the name of my more professional blog, Lorna Dice or "Lorna says." And I say, most often: "Competition's for horses and Schools are for fish." It's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it. So, it puts me in a rank mood -- just in time for April, the Cruelest Month for (most) Poets left out on the Po' Porch or bumped off the bumpy Fence this month.

All things considered, this is a most sincere list, and totally mixed in style, persuasion, experience and actitud/ attitude. And I did it just because people ask. Heck, they write or call every week for dissertation interviews, theses, reports, etc., and I'm constantly asked: "Who do you read? Who's the best?" Particularly in regards to the New-Up-and-Coming. I don't like it. I don't believe in it. But I face it; poets always end up in one institution or another and I choose higher ed. I've been here for 17 years, but have been a editor/publisher for going on 30 years (July 4, 1976) and it's been my job for all of my adult life to know who's out there writing and most importantly, who's good. But then, I am of the persuasion of those who trust that poetry makes something happen -- good poetry. Even if it's just for the single life. (sorry if that's a pun in your personal life, anyone out there reading this, I can't resist Irony wherever she rests.) And often, the asking involves real money to a real poet which (usually) involves real change in a life in order for real good poems to be where they might not have been without it. That's why I do it. And, I just love poetry. I can shut off my Critic and just read. Or, turn it on. Because I'm good at it. I'm in it for the pudding for when it comes to The Poems, The Whole Poem, And Nothing But the Poem I let my inner granma be the Judge: "The proof is in the pudding" as she always said about anything I would say I was going to do or did. And "Name?" What's in a name? "Puddin'Tame! Ask me again I'll tell you the same!" as she would also say when it came to those questions of "Who's your mother?" or answers of "My father was. . . ". Ya' know?

And, tortillas, as always, are also irrelevant. Unless, of course, they are present or absent from an actual plate.

Cheers! Poetry on! Teacher? Salt of the Earth! Don't put your best stuff on your blog, send it out for publication and put the link to it on your blog. Or, yeah, why not, somebody might read it, and like it. Especially, perhaps, when one new to po' blogging has some kind of unbiased guide to The Best this year.

What do I like? l like how I put it on the masthead of my old crosscultural po' mag, RED DIRT, so many years ago: Poems rooted in the earth and rendered in blood. Duende. And what is good? Hey, it's like any aesthetic, like any artistic experience, like sex. As I often tell my class: What we want to go for is the unexpected inevitable. And, When in doubt, cut it out. You can always put it back. As for the rest: There are no absolutes in poetry. And that is the only absolute.

Good first half of your poem. Thanks for posting.

Lorna Dee

Saturday, March 25, 2006

Friday Fry-Up - A Quick Wok Around the Blog & Calendar - Posted on Saturday

TEXAS

I'm here for Spring Break before taking off Thursday for Dallas, The Writers Garret "Writes of Spring" shebang featuring about 100 writers. I'll be keynoting with a reading/ performance on Friday, March 31st along with Bryce Milligan, my publisher from Wings Press which is free and open to the public at the South Side Gallery in downtown Dallas. I'll also be giving a 3-day intensive workshop for $325 in case you're in the area, and flush; participants are encouraged to bring copies of their own poems. I also hope to meet poet, Cyrus Cassells. I once selected him for the William Carlos Williams Award from the Academy of Poets for best book of poetry published that year ("Soul Make A Path Through Shouting") and I've been a fan ever since. I'll be bringing my copies of his books and hope to get them signed. He's reading at SMU on Wednesday but I won't get there in time. I will be attending the Progressive Dinner, the Writers Moveable Feast, on Thursday. I also hope to hang out with a performance poet who never ceases to amaze me, my Taller Ixchel partner in poetry, Fort Worth homegirl, Tammy Gomez, the Little Stevie Ray Vaughn of Austin's Poetry & Spoken Word scene. AJU'UUAAA!. Here's the schedule:

Join us for the Inaugural Writes of Spring Literary Festival of Books
& Authors

Friday, March 31, 2006 through Sunday, April 2, 2006, Downtown Dallas, South Side on Lamar (1409 South Lamar)
C'mon down to South Side on Lamar for a lively weekend full of fun & festivities! Writes of Spring expects over 100 authors from across Texas and beyond guaranteed to enlighten and entertain. Highlights include story telling, panel discussions, readings, workshops, author signings, exhibitors, children’s events, and entertainment—so bring the whole family!

The celebration takes place in downtown Dallas at South Side on Lamar, 1409 S. Lamar, across from the Cedars Station on the Dart Rail line. Surrounding this weekend, community partners will offer festival-affiliated events to celebrate the value of literature in North Texas.

Most events are free and open to the public, but a limited number require payment and registration--notably intensive workshops with noted authors Lorna Dee Cervantes, Will Clarke, Paul Christensen, and Mary Blye Howe. We also offer several fun events such as "A Moveable Feast" progressive dinner the night before, an Author "BARD-B-Q," and a Texas Poker Laureate Charity Invitational Tournament! Seniors, students, South Side residents, and partner members receive a 10% discount and any event or workshop requiring payment. For information on tickets or registrations, contact 214.828.1715 or gen@writersgarret.org.

The inaugural Writes of Spring expects over 100 authors from across Texas and beyond, representing a wide variety of literature, many with new books published in the last two years (2004-2006). We will offer workshops, panel discussions, writing and reading classes, book sales, author signings, exhibitors, story telling, children’s events, food and entertainment!

The festival and book fair are free and open to the public!


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UPDATE: The other four pages or such just got zapped by clicking a link while on blogger, so I'll have to figure if I can reconstruct the past 2 hours of work writing stories and copying links & text. (Here, insert you best memory of Marge Simpson's growl: "ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR...."

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

"Midnight, Map, Soak, Retreat" - Four 1 Minute OneWord Hay(na)ku Poems

MIDNIGHT



Midnight
oil slick,
weather high emit.

Bright
ventricles fire,
laze us off,

grass
fed buffalo
fallow, light beginning;

spring
insists midnight
is day expired.


~~~


Map
of wonder,
world of you,

Map
of sudden
openings, tricks, unlockings.

Map
of the
heart -- where am

I
under your
power? Where archery?


~~~~

SOAK



Soak
rocks, soak
stones across fields.

Soak.
Soak rice,
husks of self.

Soak
off padded
beginnings, endings -- wish.


~~~

RETREAT



Retreat
into paradise,
yourself at last.

Re-treat.
Be sweet
saturn expired, silk,

heavy
petting in
the dark, feathers.

Retreat
into what
you were before.

Repeat
the sound
of never more.


~~~


Fill your own baskets with egg-heads, gather a OneWord poem.

Sunday, March 19, 2006

Lorna Dee's List of Top 30 Excellent Po' Bloggers Discovered This Year

The following is a ranked list of excellent poet-bloggers whose work I discovered in the past year reading po'blogs. This list doesn't include old po' pals:
  • Reyes Cardenas

  • Ana Castillo

  • Joy Harjo

  • Luís Rodríguez

  • nor former blogger, fellow P-Town Fellow, Cynthia Huntington;


  • Nor does it include poets whose work I was already well familiar with:
  • Ron Silliman

  • E. Ethelbert Miller;


  • Nor former students:
  • Luís Urrea

  • Mackenzie Carignan;


  • Nor former Taller Ixchel "scholarship gal":
  • Diana Marie Delgado;


  • all of whom would be ranked high on this list of the best of the best poet-bloggers. This list is based soley upon the quality of the poetry posted on their blogs and is in order of the very best.

    Now, here's Lorna Dee wearing her critical high hat in the privacy of her own home:


  • Alison Stine

  • Rebecca Loudon

  • Ernesto Priego

  • Lee Herrick

  • Barbara Jane Reyes

  • Jean Vengua

  • Kristy Bowen

  • Birdie Jaworski

  • C. Dale Young

  • Eduardo Corral

  • William Allegrezza

  • Charles Jenson

  • Mark Young

  • Sheryl Luna

  • Ruth Ellen Kocher

  • Blas Manuel de Luna

  • Gina Franco

  • Suzanne Frischkorn

  • Mark Lamoureux

  • Peter Pereira

  • Anthony Robinson

  • Rebecca Livingston

  • Teresa Ballard

  • Anne Haines

  • Paul Guest

  • A. D. Thomas

  • Stuart Greenhouse

  • Lyle Dagget

  • Seth Abramson

  • Jennifer Bredl
  • "Better, Reaction, Whale, Mouth, Fuss, Wrath, Secluded, Unforgettable, Propose, Dangle, Destination, Weapon" - 1 Dozen 1 Minute 1 Word Hay(na)ku Poems

    BETTER


    Better
    get the
    rain, cap it

    in
    your hat
    be the back

    hoe,
    filter, tarp —
    be the thunder.

    Rain.
    Be better
    for the storm.

    Wet
    it. Be
    the backwater levee.


    ~~~

    REACTION


    Reaction
    delayed, trail
    of wait, explode

    into
    here now,
    take the trail,

    ignite
    into your
    own flutterings, mutterings

    under
    the heart,
    just there, subtle

    baskets
    of offerings,
    just words, ways.


    ~~~

    WHALE


    Whale,
    go home.
    Your lives live

    there.
    Waterborn and
    you can't get

    home,
    waterborn, my
    own — sail. On

    past
    Atlantic, white-spouted
    headstrong winded whale!


    ~~~

    MOUTH


    Mouth
    the words
    I live this,

    thing,
    the burgeoning,
    the flower, blood

    roses
    of south,
    bright linen days;

    saves
    mouth, tongue:
    I love you.


    ~~~

    FUSS


    Fuss
    budget, muss
    up the life,

    strife,
    a hand-basket
    of salvation's right.

    Must
    the bright
    collar strangle? Just

    be
    there, nuzzling
    down the light.


    ~~~

    WRATH


    Wrath
    of ages,
    mask of wages —

    heart's
    conception, sages
    burning for lent,

    spent
    ways merging,
    forgetting control: retired.


    ~~~

    SECLUDED


    Secluded
    to dream,
    a casket of wishes,

    dreaming
    a remainder,
    dreaming of rhyme,

    dreaming
    the team
    up, first draft.

    Dreaming
    the way
    in: dream date.


    ~~~

    UNFORGETTABLE


    Unforgettable
    to you
    unmentionable, unruly, unfulfillable;

    heartened
    on the
    crow, flying dim-witted,

    heartened.
    Enough, enough
    of mulberry stuff.



    ~~~

    PROPOSE


    Propose
    a toast:
    to better days,

    to
    saviors, missed
    or otherwise, to

    future
    kings of
    heart, to you,

    your
    fortune, your
    kiss, your miss.


    ~~~

    DANGLE


    Dangle
    from the
    destiny of your

    window,
    hold me
    by the feet

    of
    my sorrow.
    Stay single, flower

    fortuned,
    be the
    wave in autumn.

    Leaf.


    ~~~

    DESTINATION


    Destination
    to our
    return, buy me

    one
    way home.
    Drive me there:

    your
    hair, the lax
    mouth of heart,

    your
    skin sloughed
    off — the brilliance.


    ~~~

    WEAPON


    weapon
    of the
    heart, go slowly

    barbed
    fish hook
    penetrated to destiny.

    Give
    me one
    way you are

    with
    me, summer
    struck and splendid.



    ~~~~
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    "Unconscious Mutterings #163 On 3/19/06"

    1. Sugar rush:: to the sugared soul-sweetened

    2. Chemical:: you rush the gate of

    3. Suspension:: suspend me in

    4. Defending:: you to preachers.

    5. Conference:: of the heart, you

    6. Dance:: in mind, turning the

    7. Weather:: inside. Come out.

    8. Fuel:: me. Break me,

    9. Heartbreak:: Be the hotel of my endless dreaming.

    10. Insult:: me to a key. And, open.





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    "Unconscious Mutterings #162 On 3/19/06"

    1. Displacement:: of the heart, you,

    2. Grease monkey:: to the god you were,

    3. Vacancy:: in the home of a ventricle, you

    4. Conquer:: the soft shells under hair.

    5. Payroll:: pending, you harvest the

    6. Personal:: crop: pirate, partner,

    7. Housewife:: sinner.

    8. Lateral:: lover of the time divine,

    9. Tissue:: divider, trick

    10. Multiplication:: I do.




    Live your own love poem, get the key to your subliminal ignitions at La Luna Niña.

    "Unconscious Mutterings #161 On 3/19/06"

    1. Upgrade:: to a sunken well,

    2. Happy ending:: in the sell,

    3. Stale:: heart, dry hands

    4. Tripping:: the light fantastic,

    5. Working:: the well being home.

    6. Explicit:: in the lyrics of the self, a

    7. Happy place:: corralling poverty to a corner

    8. Tornado:: Listen to the well, the

    9. Medication:: of the wind:

    10. Muppet:: brained, still.




    Be your boss for a day at the Subliminal Luna Nina.

    Thursday, March 16, 2006

    AWP Roundup - Colo. State - Pueblo Reading Tonight: Celebration of Women's Poetry

    I'm off to Pueblo for the Women's Poetry Festival tonight at Colorado State College. I'm judging the women's poetry competitions again this year. If you're in the area, the reading is free with a reception. Winners of the competition will also be reading beginning at 7:30. Come at 7 for the food. I'm really looking forward to it. I'll also be visiting with some classes and students on friday -- spending time with La Doña of Chicana literature, one of my early mentors, Bernice Zamora.

    Interesting. She has been very ill with a bleeding ulcer -- same as me -- which she's had since her early academic years. Yes. Interesting. I tell T we can share war stories & war wounds. Right now I'm much improved with aloe vera juice & kombucha -- and po chai pills.

    But Austin was a bust. It's like I did and did not attend the AWP. Wednesday night I started vomiting. My flight was delayed and I didn't get into Austin until 6 pm instead of 3:15. Thursday morning I was torn between birds (Gerry Stern) (I liked what I heard -- you can never go wrong with birds) and the 7 people who showed up for Nick Kanellos's keynote address. Amiri didn't show up for his presentation -- I hope he's alright. It's been a rough year or two. The highlight was the one full panel I heard, an excellent one on healing and poetry with po'blog buddies Peter Perreira, C. Dale Young, Ann Caston (with whom I read at the 92nd Street Y a few years back) and my former colleague, Marilyn Krysl. It was a really interesting panel loaded with good poets. I had just loaned Ann's book to one of my students, so it was nice to hear her as, in a way, I was already hearing her in my head for a week. But then, at the end of the panel, I started getting sick. I walked out as the Q & A began with just a warm nod to Marilyn. Then I got sick in the bathroom -- the first of many times. (If you heard or heard about the woman throwing up in the bathroom, it was me. So many writers are so kind: offering me water or moist paper towels for my head, or whatever I wanted. But at that moment, there is nothing but wretching, and the rest of the wretched universe. And, why would anyone want a glass of water at that point?) I just had to climb in the nearest cab and go back to the hotel where I soaked in the tub and moaned on the bed with the covers pulled over my queasy head. I missed my Con Tinta reading. I couldn't believe it. I kept getting out of bed and putting on various articles of clothing only to fall back with covers over my head. Or, throw up. I spent about the first 3 days without being able to hold down food or water. Not good. I was so disappointed to be missng everyone -- especially raulsalinas. And disappointed to miss hearing Diana Delgado, my Taller Ixchel "Scholarship Girl" and Brenda Cardenas. I spent most of that night composing my panel presentation, an essay. I got up about 7pm and wrote it out. I was feeling well enough to present it, and it wasn't until after that the vomiting returned, and worsened. I went to the book table to sign after the panel, and went back and forth between there and the bathroom. But I so love the books & publishers & editors. I'm going to have to go back to AWP in Atlanta just to get another book fair fix.

    But it was not all in vain. Just as the poet/ visual artist, Wolff said to me in the airport as we exchanged books on the way back monday: You run into people for a reason. I read his self-published volume on the way home and liked it a lot. I ran into 32 Poems publisher/ editor, Deborah Ager with lovely Olivia strapped to her early on thursday morning and it was nice. I ran into Alan Soldolfsky from San Jose days and we had a productive chat. The rest a rush of random reunion from the past several decades beginning with the Dallas connection into Austin when John-Oliver Simon from Poets in the Schools (where I firs got on this bus 30 years ago this year) was standing behind me in the boarding line. Even an old boyfriend -- sheesh. Maybe I'll come back with more. I know it was pert'near heart-breaking the people I didn't meet up with: Alison Stine whose fine poetry manuscript I have and was prepared to go over with her (Ali, I'm so sorry I was too sick to call you. Expect it in the mail soon.) And Bill Allegrezza.

    But, more soon. Welcome back. I'm off again. And, Dallas Writes of Spring 3-day intensive workshop March 31 - April 2. Portland Reed College Social Justice Festival on April 8. UC Berkeley Poetry for the People class on April 26. See you there. Po Chai or bust!

    Tuesday, March 07, 2006

    AWP EVENT Cancelled - Go to SUPERFLUX LAUNCH PARTY - Cactus Cafe UT

    SUPERFLUX LAUNCH PARTY, March 8
    Readers include Eileen Myles, Susan Wheeler, Rosa Alcalá, Lee Ann Brown, Lara Glenum, Arielle Greenberg, Rachel Levitsky, and Denise Szymczak. There will be a screening of a short film by Jill Chamberlain. 7:00 pm on Wednesday, March 8 at the Cactus Café in the Texas Union (UT Campus)

    Sorry, all. But I just got wind of this reading. It didn't seem like there was much happening wednesday night so I decided to organize something for po' bloggers and other poets to meet. But Susan is a fellow P-Town fellow, Rosa & Lee Ann are poet buds, and I always want to hear Eileen.

    So I'm considering canceling plans at Town Lake (I can still cancel tomorrow morning) unless there's a great outcry by tomorrow, or I know there's more than a dozen people who'd like to have an open mike.

    I can see you at the Cactus Cafe. And, at my reading with Diana Marie Delgado, Brenda Cardenas, Rolando Hinojosa, Raulsalinas, and others, Thursday, March 9 from 6 - 10 pm. Or catch my panel presentation on Friday at noon. Or at the book signings 10 - 11 am at Wings Press, #442, near the coffee. Or, just catch me winging around -- there can't be too many people at the AWP who look like me.

    See ya there!

    Monday, March 06, 2006

    AWP Poet? You Don't Have to Show Us No Stinkin' Badges - Lorna Dee's Po' Bloggers' Book Bash: Read, Eat, Meet, Greet (sell books) (Xicana Hospitality)

    READ 'n' EAT, MEET & GREET POETRY BLOGGERS!
    ALL POETS - WELCOME HOME!
    Wednesday 6 - 7:30 pm
    Poets' Pot-Luck Picnic Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway
    (esquina del rio y carretera)
    Town Lake Park

    7:30 - 10pm+
    marathon monopoem spin-the-bottle reading
    Poets Book Fest
    Pecan Tree Restaurant - Blue Bonnet Banquet Room
    Holiday Inn Austin Town Lake
    20 North Highway 35
    Hot & Cold Hors D'oeuvres
    bring your own drinks from
    THE TAVERN

    TOWN LAKE: POETS CENTRAL


    Orale! TIME TO GREEZE! Who's up for meeting po'bloggers everywhere? I'm up for hosting a meet & greet marathon monopoem spin-the-bottle reading (A la the good old days of the Annual MANGO Toast 'n' Jam), food, drinks on wednesday evening especially for all my poetry blog buddies - that means you, buddy! Esa! Bring your guitar, all youse local yokels. [yes, yesy, I know, geographic socioeconomic melange: all by intent for deconstructive purpose and strategy y con plenos poderes.]

    So, let me know as soon as you can, RSVP, come in on the spur, come as you are -- no cost but a gulp & someone will gulp what you don't. Hey, we're all poets, we're all poor. We'll buy our tacos elsewhere, break bread together and convene later in the boardroom. So just let me know who can come - the more the merrier & more economical, especially if y'all can chip in. Otherwise, we'll have food, water, juice, beer, wine, witty new friends (even if only on the page) and poetry until they all run out except for the friends -- including the ones we haven't yet met. What else is there? Love? PISH-TUSH. O, was that a hair? So, hey, grab your sweetie, round up your buddies, avoid the posse and poesy over to Town Lake (the river, son) and convene beneath the shadow of the freeway with me & my "bums and babblers." Any time you get there is when you're there. "Real Poets" are rumored to arrive -- could be you. All are invited. And, it's free. Come sell your books before the conference. I'll have a table for poets participating in the open-mike spin-the-bottle monopoem marathon and you can buy books direct from the authors.

    Come help me celebrate my new book in 15 years, DRIVE: The First Quartet by reading me your best poem. You can contribute to the cost of a cool place to meet up with other poets by buying my book direct from me ($25.00, cloth, 320 pps.) Or not. And help us unite - You have nothing to lose but your poems! Don't be shy (like me) - POETRY ON!

    So, spread it around!

    Besides my reading Thursday Night at the Con Tinta Event Celebrating 40 Years of Chicano Literature - among other things - and my panel at noon on Friday, and as many of your events as I humanly can, I'll be La Bird hanging loose by my WINGS on 442 Prayers -- just think of my poem, "Coffee" -- I'll be near the coffee, in the back, #442, Wings Press, where I'll be signing books periodically. (CU-CWP students get heavy discount).

    You & your buds can contact me at PoetDee AT LornaDeeCervantes DOT ya'know -- or not. See y'all there! (Tejana by birth: my son's.) ¡Ajúa! I LOVE TEXAS.

    YEA!! (I'm hearing Donna Summers in my head - somebody help me! Read me a good poem! )

    I'm so excited/ And I just can't hide it. . .

    LDC
    c/s

    AWP? Lorna Dee's Book Bash! Po' Bloggers Eat n' Meet, Greet & Read, Refresh n' Run

    READ & EAT - MEET 'n' GREET POETRY BLOGGERS!

    [UPDATE 8:30 pm: 6 - 7:30 Poets Pot-Luck Picnic Beneath The Shadow of the Freeway, Town Lake Park (35 & river behind Holiday Inn Town Lake) and 7:30 - 10+ in Banquet Room - open mike, book table, food & drinks from THE TAVERN. FREE. See latest post.]

    Wednesday 6:30 - ? 6 - 9?
    Pecan Tree Restaurant & Blue Bonnet Banquet Room
    Holiday Inn Austin Town Lake
    20 North Highway 35
    (esquina del rio y carretera)

    Orale! TIME TO GREEZE! Who's up for meeting po'bloggers everywhere? I'm up for hosting a meet & greet marathon monopoem reading, dinner, drinks on wednesday evening especially for all my poetry blog buddies - that means you, buddy! Esa!

    Let me know as soon as you can, RSVP, and give me a ball park figure on who all would be interested in private sit-down banquet buffet for $25, buffet & host bar for $40, or bar in room for reading (sit-down & order food & drink off restaurant menu first) or, hey, we're all poets, we're all poor. We'll buy our tacos elsewhere and convene later in the boardroom. So just let me know who can come - the more the merrier & more economical, especially if y'all can chip in. Otherwise, we'll have food, water, juice, beer, wine, witty new friends (even if only on the page) and poetry. What else is there? Love? PISH-TUSH. O, was that a hair? So, hey, grab your sweetie, round up your buddies, avoid the posse and poesy over to Town Lake (the river, son) and convene beneath the shadow of the freeway with me & my "bums and babblers." Any time you get there is when you're there.

    But I have to order (commit cash) by today, and I have no idea if there are a dozen of us or 4 times that.

    Come help me celebrate my new book in 15 years, DRIVE: The First Quartet by reading me your best poem. And help us unite - You have nothing to lose but your poems! Don't be shy (like me) - POETRY ON!

    $50 will get you a signed copy of DRIVE, a banquet buffet (selection of 2 entrees, sides, desserts, etc. let me know veggie/ vegan food preferences), no-host bar & a cool place to meet up with other poets.

    Or, whatever level you can contribute & I'll spring for the room, service & tax, maybe snacks. Or, just let me know you'd like to just come, or contribute only so much, or would prefer we all order off the menu (more time) and carry our drinks from The Tavern. (We can't bring any food or drink into the hotel.) We may even have SONG!

    So, spread it around!


    PoetDee AT LornaDeeCervantes DOT ya'know

    YEA!! (I'm hearing Donna Summers in my head - somebody help me! Read me a poem!

    I'm so excited. . .

    Sunday, March 05, 2006

    "Small" - A One-Minute 'One Word' Hay(na)ku Poem

    Small
    changes abide,
    ride the waves,

    rollercoaster
    down sage
    and creosote ranges.

    Small
    happenings give
    way to life,

    green
    dits on
    crushed rock, you.



    * Seek your own small shade OneWord a minute.

    "Proof Pantoum Play On"

    Proof Pantoum Play On



    Play, Rez Cajunman! i Just got Minty-Flesh. As if
    Sung to music in its entirety, a pantoum is.
    Love to play high stakes poker with you; I`d walk away with all
    Portfolio! Every good play surely

    Sung to music in its entirety, a pantoum is.
    Sung-sonnet, haiku, pantoum, and more. In each — proof.
    Portfolio! Every good play surely
    Microsoft: Word: “Womb to Tomb Pantoum,” (Operatic.)

    Sung-sonnet, haiku, pantoum, and more. In each — proof.
    because we know the proof of truth, we think that
    Microsoft: Word: “Womb to Tomb Pantoum,” (Operatic.)
    One married a strong title with just the right form, the pantoum,

    because we know the proof of truth, we think that
    RABBIT = (A Pantoum - burden burden of proof burdensome burdock).
    One married a strong title with just the right form, the pantoum,
    To a villanelle. (Software to play around with and have)

    RABBIT = (A Pantoum - burden burden of proof burdensome burdock).
    Unrecognized - 03 Feb 2006 06:53:14 -0500 pm. A pantoum is a poem
    To a villanelle. (Software to play around with and have)
    Here's the proof, the rhyme and meter's here —

    Unrecognized - 03 Feb 2006 06:53:14 -0500 pm. A pantoum is a poem
    Block. The old piano that she used.
    Here's the proof, the rhyme and meter's here —
    Quatrain become the #8 PANTOUM. 7-26-97 proof of Fermat's

    Block. The old piano that she used.
    A chore to turn up and play for Rotarians sometimes.
    Quatrain become the #8 PANTOUM. 7-26-97 proof of Fermat's
    Down through the shadows, 2003 Sep 4, Mugging For Pennies,

    A chore to turn up and play for Rotarians sometimes.
    And, to make more proof for them that
    Down through the shadows, 2003 Sep 4, Mugging For Pennies,
    — Third year as an educator in Words: PLAY.

    And, to make more proof for them that
    Following the general form: "Iowa Pantoum."
    — Third year as an educator in Words: PLAY.
    (Pantoum) is almost raunchy while the third,

    Following the general form: "Iowa Pantoum."
    Recording devices would eliminate the possibility of The
    (Pantoum) is almost raunchy while the third,
    Proof. (Very fine and bright cloth bound without dustjacket.)

    Recording devices would eliminate the possibility of The
    Typo Generator: Typographic Book.
    Proof. (Very fine and bright cloth bound without dustjacket.)
    The three-field system created to up to real

    Typo Generator: Typographic Book.
    Love to play high stakes poker with you; I`d walk away with all
    The three-field system created to up to real.
    Play, Rez Cajunman! i Just got Minty-Flesh. As if.



    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Compiled 3/5/2006  1:45:48 AM GMT
    And punctuated by Lorna Dee Cervantes 3/5/2006 10:20 AM MST
    from Get A Google Poem c/a Leevi Lehto

    More poetry in English/Finnish:
    www.leevilehto.net

    "You Lie! Lorna Dee Cervantes, You Lie" - FLARF Pantoum Off Line of Julia De Burgos

    You lie! Lorna Dee Cervantes, You Lie




    Highway that lies — Lorna Dee Cervantes, when I see you: it.
    Its roots with (poets) Lorna Dee Cervantes,
    July 16, 7 pm readings by Lorna Dee Cervantes and Alicia
    In the sky, you and I, an anomaly, a rarer

    Its: roots with (poets) Lorna Dee Cervantes.
    Finn' closest thing to 'Great American Novel'
    In the sky, you and I, an anomaly, a rarer
    Model of learning, Sandra Cisneros, and Lorna.

    Finn' closest thing to 'Great American Novel'
    Cafe, April 27, 1985 (with Lorna Dee Cervantes)
    Model of learning — Sandra Cisneros, and Lorna,
    Enthusiasm derived from The Slackers — if you lie on your back.

    Cafe, April 27, 1985 (with Lorna Dee Cervantes):
    Escape my origins, as poetess Lorna Dee Cervantes once wrote
    (Enthusiasm derived from The Slackers — If you lie on your back)
    Lim and Stanley Kunitz. By continuing past this page, and

    Escape my origins, as poetess Lorna Dee Cervantes once wrote
    To critical and creative Lorna Dee Cervantes, “Poem for the Young
    Lim and Stanley Kunitz." By continuing past this page, and
    Spotted, and you can even read at the gentle pace of Babson

    To critical and creative Lorna Dee Cervantes, “Poem for the Young."
    Please write to: - J0175500 if you,
    Spotted, and you, can even read at the gentle pace of Babson.
    "The Bee Meeting." LORNA DEE CERVANTES (1954-). Cannery Town.

    Please write to: - J0175500 If you
    AM; Lorna Dee Cervantes said, "Oh, Anne! I'm behind!"
    "The Bee Meeting." LORNA DEE CERVANTES (1954-). Cannery Town .
    - Where does the tension in this story lie? Did

    AM; Lorna Dee Cervantes said, "Oh, Anne! I'm behind!"
    Cervantes confronts a She, hesitates.
    - Where does the tension in this story lie? Did,
    In her excellent collection Emplumada, she present?

    Cervantes confronts a She, hesitates.
    (Will find links to web versions of all issues and text versions)
    In her excellent collection Emplumada, she present?
    SPD Books Celebration & Reading, Lorna Dee

    Will find links to web versions of all issues and text versions
    To Lorna Dee Cervantes: Desolate Irony, Laurel K Dodge, ejjobrien,
    SPD Books Celebration & Reading. Lorna Dee
    Statistics lie, he was more brave than me: more blond than he

    To Lorna Dee Cervantes: Desolate Irony, Laurel K Dodge, ejjobrien,
    While I sit across from you, Lisa Urbanic &
    Statistics lie, he was more brave than me: more blond than he
    And Joy Harjo for you, though you lie.

    While I sit across from you, Lisa Urbanic &
    July 16, 7 pm readings by Lorna Dee Cervantes and Alicia
    And Joy Harjo for you, though you lie.
    Highway that lies — Lorna Dee Cervantes. When I see you: it.



    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Compiled 3/5/2006  1:35:10 AM GMT
    Punctuated by Lorna Dee Cervantes, though she lies, 3/5/2006 9:40 AM
    from Get A Google poem c/o Leevi Lehto
    More poetry in English/Finnish:
    www.leevilehto.net

    Saturday, March 04, 2006

    "pinche chicano moon: es sestina ese"

    pinche chicano moon: es sestina ese


    ~ for Henry & Mr. Bones



    Noriega provides us with an want anything.
    LOONEY WELL I COME FROM HALF MOON BAY!
    Between images of the moon and
    Chicano scholar Chon A. Noriega
    Judgment day come and come soon — I — unPURO
    Him — he seemed like — 3. You can

    Bet not even talcum powder can
    Can Watts. (never will I forget anything)
    Sur 13, so hit me up at - PURO
    EL PELON (2-3 VATOS) — HALF MOON BAY
    Film critic and scholar Chon A. Noriega
    Has the image of a Yellow Star and

    On. . . . If "hombre" and
    Forums think soo — pero i just can
    Read film critic/scholar Chon A. Noriega
    And tint person (so I can’t give you anything)
    Chicano Rap from DA VALLEY to DA Bay
    Mexico pero i was born in Califaz — Puro

    Style was what he called the puro
    To the Sun, the Moon, the Wind And
    FINEST. City: SHaoLiN KiLLaH BaY
    (Head to a breakbeat) ... ones we can
    Not shape. "His sister couldn’t do anything
    Baldwin Park to USA," says Chon Noriega

    "Park the USA!” says one Noriega
    EX'S. Male or Female - SOY PURO
    They were cowards and never did anything
    _____ Shoot for the moon! and
    Tint not be what riches a person, so he can
    Say: Contextualizes the a - bay

    And contextualizes the A Bay
    "Park the US!” says Chon Noriega
    It aint HIP HOP it's shit I can
    You got a lot riding on this puro
    Night, I would lasso the moon, and
    It's real good i love to read and post anything

    From watts... Never will I forget anything
    To the Sun, the Moon, the Wind — And
    You got a lot riding on this puro.


    Compiled 3/4/2006  6:44:38 PM GMT
    and edited minimally by Lorna Dee Cervantes 11:50 AM

    get a google poem c/o Leevi Lehto
    More poetry in English/Finnish:
    www.leevilehto.net

    One Year Ago Today: I Started This Blog

    with this love sonnet to Joseph Beuys:
    "How to Explain Paintings to a Dead Hare"
    which is my arse poetika to the beloved Dead.

    WELCOME HOME!

    "Lorn Tooth, Loves Ah!" - A Flarf Ghazal to Love

    Lorn Tooth, Loves Ah!



    I saw the Nereids on the sandy bay—
    What I had promised them the day

    To break the heart, on a lorn fair
    Day: poppies and clover! That air:

    LOUR LOUT LOVE. Ah! You think
    To stay? Warning: If you think

    To receive and treasure long a heart
    Going to love-lorn-strop, a Voldemort

    Feared by men I've yet to meet. Are you
    In my memory? Though all of love were true

    And lost. I know this sounds odd,
    Love was lost beside—And yet I would

    Today! Hurray! I love going to
    Feel how first, I love how first to go—

    I know, I would still abide forever
    Times the way these brows would shatter.

    I do have two homes: one, I've meditated,
    And the one of love you promised.

    Of these answers we are going to earn
    Silence, unrevealed—lost, forlorn;

    Heavily, when love-lorn hours had
    Lost besides—I yet would feel how glad

    I am to be this far inside the sea,
    Inside this home two borrowed from one bee.

    In my memory, though all of love were
    The fires burning, and all of you were

    What was promised, so to speak,
    A noon beautiful enough to break.

    And pain—Nor this ambition (all
    Forever in my memory), though all

    I will remember of our story next week
    Are the Nereids on the sandy bay, your cheek,

    And what was promised us that day:
    These answers I am going to earn, a way

    To count every dimple on a creek—
    I did get my teeth in it. I speak

    Of tongues, freshets of taste, the way
    I saw the Nereids on the sandy bay,

    And pain—But not that ambition, all
    Forever in my memory. You. Though all

    Love that hero, the one not torn. Ah,
    Love! That hero: The one not gone long—lorn. Ah!


    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Compiled 3/4/2006  8:35:12 AM GMT
    And edited & ghazalled into being by Lorna Dee Cervantes 10:10 AM
    from google c/o Leevi Lehto
    More poetry in English/Finnish:
    www.leevilehto.net

    "Include" - A OneWord Hay(na)ku Poem In A Minute

    Include
    us in
    the plan game

    planning
    for inclusion
    love the lilies

    breath
    taking beauty
    include a smile

    covet
    carpets forests
    of ash ridden

    be
    aware time
    after ash - included.



    * Include yourself one second at a time - write a poem from one word and mean it.

    "Blast" - A OneWord Hay(na)ku Poem In A Minute

    BLAST



    Blast
    of fluff
    from the rifle

    belly,
    stop hounding
    mama, stop rounding.

    Belly
    blast -- no
    boy or girl.

    Belly
    up and
    stranded, beached, whaled.



    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    * Retie your own shoe One Word at a time in a minute's time.

    Friday, March 03, 2006

    "Peace Pumps Many Ripe" - More FLARF Poetry From Lorna Dee

    Peace Pumps Many Ripe




    Time to reconnect with the part
    of when she was very little; you had
    desire that the torment may be short.

    866 families however sensed
    to be - Many a homesick spell I had
    time to reconnect with the part -

    details are still emerging, it is
    of the industry (excuse my bad
    desire that the torment may be short),

    of Penis Enlarger Pumps and Me: this sort.
    The land. When we, after all, there had
    time to reconnect with the part

    I was when ripe to make a major effort.
    Organization. Humanly. Speaking, Satan had
    desire that the torment may be short -

    a peace filled place - my urge to be a part.
    At the "Boot Camp" I had
    time to reconnect with the part:
    desire that the torment may be short



    Compiled 3/4/2006 7:48:42 AM GMT
    and edited by Lorna Dee Cervantes
    & Google c/o Leevi Lehto
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    More poetry in English/Finnish:
    www.leevilehto

    Xicanerati @AWP -- Chicanao Events in Austin -- C Y'all in Tejas!

    AWP Conference, Austin, Tejas
    March 9-11, 2006
    Chicano/Latino Events*


    Thursday, March 9, 2006

    9:00-10:15AM


    Translation as a School for Writers. (Liliana Valenzuela & others) Austin Hilton Salon D, 4th floor

    10:30-11:45AM

    1 Market, 2 Tongues: Bilingual Writing in the United States. (Alicia Partnoy) Austin Hilton Salon D, 4th floor

    The Formlessness of Form in Fiction. (Rigoberto Gonzá lez & others) Austin Hilton Salon E, 4th floor

    CLMP Keynote Address (Nicolá s Kanellos) Austin Convention Center Meeting Room 6AB, 3rd floor south

    1:30-2:45PM

    Poetry Santa Fe. (Valerie Martí nez & others) Austin Hilton Meeting Room 406, 4th floor

    Writing the Border: Fiction from the Lower Rio Grande Valley. (José Skinner, René Saldañ a, Juan Ochoa) Austin Convention Center Meeting Room 5ABC, 3rd floor south

    3:00-4:15PM

    Mysticism, Medicines, and the Other: Writing Traditions in Place. (Norma Cantú , J. Michael Martinez, Pat Mora, Alexander Parsons, Alberto Rí os, Margaret Yocom) Austin Hilton Salon A, 4th floor

    Desde el Volcá n: Momotombo Press Reading/Discussion. (Francisco Aragó n, Steven Cordova, Brenda Cá rdenas, Paul Martí nez-Pompa, Lisa Gonzales, Michelle Otero) Austin Convention Center Mtg Rm 5ABC, 3rd floor south

    Under a Western Sky: A Collaborative Reading from Four New Mexico Presses. (Lisa D. Chá vez & others) Austin Convention Center Meeting Room 7, 3rd floor south

    4:30-6:15PM

    The Virginia G. Piper Center Presents: A Reading by Dagoberto Gilb & Chitra Divakaruni

    Austin Convention Center Grand Ballroom

    6:00 - 8:30 PM
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Con Tinta Celebration

    Achievement Awards to Rolando Hinojosa-Smith & raúlrsalinas.

    The Quetzal Quill Reading by Diana Delgado, Brenda Cárdenas, & Lorna Dee Cervantes.

    Doña Emilia's South American Bar and Grill -- 101 San Jacinto Blvd, Austin, TX

    (512-478-2520 / www.donaemilias.com)

    Open buffet Cash bar

    No Admission Public is Invited
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Friday, March 10, 2006

    9:00-10:15AM

    Switching Languages: Translingual Writers Reflect on Their Craft. (Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Gustavo Perez Firmat, Steven G. Kellman) Austin Convention Center Meeting Room 8ABC, 3rd floor south

    10:30-11:45AM

    Camino del Sol: University Presses and Latino Voices. (Ray Gonzalez, Maria Melendez, Virgil Suarez, Gina Franco) Austin Hilton Meeting Room 410, 4th floor

    A Blue School in a Red State. (Valerie Martinez & others) Austin Convention Ctr Mtg Rm 9ABC, 3rd floor south

    12:00-1:15PM

    Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say Brings You The Latino Literary Renaissance. (Alvaro Saar Rios, Elisa Garza, Tony Diaz, Russel Contreras, Armando Gonzalez, Carolina Monsivais) Austin Hilton Meeting Room 410, 4th floor
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Chicano Politics and the Activist-Writer in American Literature. (Rigoberto Gonzá lez, Helena Maria Viramontes, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Benjamin Alire Saenz) Austin Convention Center Meeting Room 9ABC, 3rd floor south
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    1:30-2:45PM

    Prairie Schooner Reading and Celebration. (Judith Ortiz Cofer) Austin Hilton Meeting Room 410, 4th floor

    3:00-4:15PM

    Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Reading. (David Hernandez) Austin Hilton Meeting Room 404, 4th floor

    Fiesta! A Reading in Celebration of the New MFA at the University of New Mexico. (Lisa D. Chá vez, Joy Harjo & others) Austin Convention Center Meeting Room 4ABC, 3rd floor south

    Primeros Libros: A Reading. (Sheryl Luna, Francisco Aragó n, Lidia Torres, Blas Manuel De Luna, Urayoá n Noel) Austin Convention Center Meeting Room 5ABC, 3rd floor south

    7:00PM

    Red Salmon Arts presents a Reading and Book Signing by Sylvia Torti, author of The Scorpion's Tail.

    Resistencia Bookstore casa de Red Salmon Arts, 1801-A South First St., Austin, Tejas, 512-416-8885.


    Saturday, March 11, 2006

    12:00-1:15PM


    Twenty Mexican Poets. Austin Hilton Meeting Room 410, 4th floor

    Our Word/Nuestra Palabra: Getting More Color in MFA Programs. (Tony Diaz, Amanda Marie Pennelly, Denise Victoria Burrell-Stinson, Russell Contreras) Austin Hilton Salon B, 4th floor

    Multi-versities: Women Poets from Korea, Austria, Romania, & Latin America. (Rosa Alcala & others)

    Austin Hilton Salon D, 4th floor

    Crossing Americas. (C.M. Mayo, Jose Skinner) Austin Convention Center Meeting Room 10AB, 3rd floor south

    Saturday, March 11, 2006 (contd.)

    12:00-1:15PM


    Border (W) rites: The Risks and Rituals of Voices Rooted in a Texas-Mexico Landscape. (Norma Cantú , Carolina Monsivais, René Saldañ a, Jr., Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Richard Yañ ez)

    Austin Convention Center Meeting Room 9ABC, 3rd floor south

    1:00-1:45PM

    Emerging Latina Voices. (Kathleen de Azevedo, Christine Granados, Margo Tamez) Austin Convention Center Bookfair Amphitheater, 1st floor

    1:30-2:45PM

    Writing the West: A Discussion of Writers’ Geographic Proximity to Vast and Complex Subject Matter. (Daniel Mueller, Michelle Brooks, Emmy Pé rez, Gregory Martin, Jack Trujillo, Grady Jaynes) Austin Hilton Meeting Room 602, 6th floor

    We Bring You the Border: Writers of the Rio Grande Valley. (Deborah Wardlaw Pattillo, Xavier Garza, Diana Lopez, Kim Henkel, David Rice, Marisa Taylor Molina) Austin Convention Center Meeting Room 4ABC, 3rd floor south

    BOA Editions 30th Anniversary Reading. (Michael Waters, Lola Haskins, Richard Garcia, Mary Crow) Austin Convention Center Meeting Room 8ABC, 3rd floor south

    3:00-4:15PM

    Maetros y Protegidos: A Reading by Latino Mentors and Their Proteges. (Richard Yañ ez, Helena Maria Viramontes, Manuel Muñ oz, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Lorraine Marie Lopez) Austin Hilton Meeting Room 410, 4th floor

    Lone Star Literature: Texas Writing Today. (Oscar Casares, Stephen Harrigan, Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Betsy Berry, Don Graham) Austin Hilton Meeting Room 412, 4th floor

    Macondo:The Workshop de las Fronteras. (Pablo Miguel Martinez, Belinda Acosta, Sandra Cisneros, Anel Flores, Leslie Larson, Vincent Lozano) Austin Hilton Salon E, 4th floor

    Mother Countries/Other Countries: Imagined Geographies. (Ruth Knafo Setton, Janice Eidus, Ilya Kaminsky, Jessica Treat, C. M. Mayo) Austin Convention Center Meeting Room 10AB, 3rd floor south

    8:30-10:00PM

    Academy of American Poets Reading (Alberto Rí os, Mark Jarman, Marilyn Nelson, B.H. Fairchild, Marie Howe) Austin Hilton Governor’s Ballroom, 4th floor

    * Based on information from the AWP Program: www.awpwriter.org

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Con Tinta

    c/o Richard Yañez

    P.O. Box 1025

    Santa Teresa NM 88008

    theclica@hotmail.com / 915-831-2630

    Thursday, March 02, 2006

    "Duel" - A one minute OneWord hay(na)ku poem

    Duel
    to death
    three way mirror

    into
    self's galaxy.
    Come here, wishes,

    duel
    away wintering,
    memory's sudden shadow.



    * Snap to your own attention, take a sixty second stop at OneWord

    Wednesday, March 01, 2006

    Nine One-A-Day One-Minute OneWord Hay(na)ku Poems: "Overwhelmed. Hometown. Inconsistent. Breakdown. Befriend. Aimless. Call. Apparent. Seize."

    from OneWord.com where's there's always a word and a minute for a poem. I took ten for these. Try your own! ~ LDC
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    ~~~~~ 2/20

    OVERWHELMED


    Overwhelmed
    an incident
    of nest, rattles,

    rare
    incendiaries—she
    shook the roof

    back
    cross wakes
    shakes, recess ended.


    ~~~~ 2/21

    HOMETOWN


    Hometown
    pride, side
    of beef hash

    way
    of mash
    and mashed. Fried

    elegance
    throughout, safe
    in shade. Shady


    days
    ahead. Led
    out of water.


    ~~~~ 2/23

    INCONSISTENT


    inconsistent
    lee you
    see it softly

    returned
    and imprecise
    you sell sentences

    in
    the dark
    tell it already


    ~~~~ 2/24

    BREAKDOWN


    Breakdown.
    Heal up.
    Take it away.

    Say
    the same
    timing of shrew,

    of
    dew, fetish
    lettuce, sorrel settlings.

    Imagine
    the way
    seizure happens. Settlingly.


    ~~~~ 2/25

    BEFRIEND


    Befriend
    max, lax
    max i mum.

    Lately
    despair—
    all been made

    exactly
    poke salad,
    and barberries. Rock-steady.


    ~~~~ 2/26

    AIMLESS


    Aimless
    and apparent,
    errant

    taxes
    wash away.
    Series made: aide

    in
    the kitchen,
    wage of affluence.

    Pay
    to hide
    the dishes, wishes

    dream


    ~~~~ 2/27

    CALL


    Call
    it in.
    Juice the lemon

    fragrance
    of sweat
    and shadow laze,

    graze
    on the
    shoulder of your

    dream,
    sonnet to
    discovery—dingy dreamer.


    ~~~~ 2/28

    APPARENT


    apparent
    in sunflower
    organdy dress down

    sauterne
    pool cool
    fresh walks delayed

    spark
    apparent share
    it calm sundry

    park
    parent simmering
    apparent quietude shocked

    ~~~~ 3/1

    SEIZE


    Seize
    the way
    you walk through

    it
    circumference of
    a dream, wagon

    wheel
    to a
    dram, drop in

    the
    bucket. Fast.
    Exact. Way in.
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