July 2008
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Dog & Cat
Run! says the dog. Run! Run! Run! Bark woof grrr! No! says the cat. No! No! No! Hiss spit rrrllll! I’ll eat you! says the dog. I’ll have you for lunch! Claws! Teeth! says the cat. I’ll bloody your nose! You look tasty, says the dog. Yum yum yum! I’m muscle and bone, says… Continue reading
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Haircut
The Braid Its weight unfelt until absent, the braid lies on the hair dresser’s table. No tears in my chair, she said, and there were none. In the Twenties, this was scandalous, women cutting off their hair. What’s left is grey. Today women cut their hair when the divorce is final, or when he… Continue reading
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read write prompt #36: ekphrastic extravaganza
fibonacci, by Rick Mobbs [not a] Fib Youlivein a shell, a nautilus shell, a miraculous pearly husk. You live in the shell with a light. The light is alive, it shimmers in the iridescent glow inside the shell. The shell curves in a marvelous spiral. These are yourchambers. You live in light. This week’s… Continue reading
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Spike
One Baccarat glass candle holder, found at a yard sale. One antique plate. Several lesser items. Thousands of dollars in food, litter, vaccines, and, lately, veterinarians. Your glee at being released from the cage, your home for the first four months of your life. Your circus acts on the stair banister. The embarrassment of… Continue reading
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Poetry, Personality & Design
We’ve been having some interesting discussions about poems, poetry, and poetics on the PoetryEtc list — some of it focused around my own recent work. Frederick Pollack offered some thorough and pointed criticism of my poems — and my ‘kind’ of poetry. What is my kind of poetry? Mainstream, I gather. Lyrical, perhaps. Not,… Continue reading
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