March 2004

  • Horoscope

    The full moon rolls in the southern sky; it is time to practice your craft. You will wander through ruins, your hair unkempt, your face a long sea voyage. Cut down to the ground the bleeding heart; let roses go to hips. October will kindle the vines. Colchicum will open its lavender mouth.     Continue reading

  • The Dialect Survey: Results for “Poem”

    22. poem      a. one syllable (32.39%)      b. two syllables (67.61%)      (11235 respondents) All Results Choice a: one syllable Choice b: two syllables The dialect survey is an expansion of an initiative begun by Professor Bert Vaux at Harvard University. Dr. Vaux prepared an earlier version of this survey for… Continue reading

  • hopscotch

    early in the silent morning the neighborhood is sleeping the air belongs to only me sneakers snap one-two-three soon grownups will be up and lights will come on and Grandma will make morning sounds in the kitchen plates against each other and pans on burners sound different for breakfast than for supper each morning sound… Continue reading

  • journals, notebooks, diaries, poems

            laying the mind out       on a white sheet       sometimes in modest bedclothes       sometimes naked       flabby and flatulent       sometimes in a dark shroud       look at it there       pennies on the eyes       breasts nuzzling the armpits     … Continue reading