Instructions to the Double Tess Gallagher So now it’s your turn, little mother of silences, little father of half-belief. Take up this face, these daily rounds with a cabbage under each arm convincing the multitudes that a well-made-anything could save them. Take up most of all, these hands trained to an ornate piano in a [...]
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I Talk Shit To Myself (and maybe you should too)
I would lie and blame it on hypnotherapy. But it happened way before that. I'm a domestic under pressure. Stressed? I iron. Stalling to avoid some perceived craziness (like going to work)? Scrub the tub and wash the dishes. Company not coming (like ever)? Purge the place with incense and dust the baseboards. So it [...]
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The Poet President
These are from the Spring 1981 edition of Feast, a biannual literary magazine of Occidental College writers. Not bad, B, not bad.
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Not a Metaphor To Your Name
Entry May 11 Some see you in similies... But I see you best unrelated...with not a metaphor to your name: your hair not like the silk of corn or spiders but like your hair, your mouth resembling nothing so wonderfully much as your mouth. Why should I say you are like a slender water bird [...]
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Monthly Meter: September
fellowship/publication submissions: 9 fellowship/publication acceptances: 1 fellowship/publication rejections: 4 books: The Art of the Poetic Line - James Longenbach The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz Secret Shame: Diana's Bananas--they look a little lewd (or maybe that's just my Freudian foolishness) but they taste so good! And my dingy truck--when did I become one of [...]
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The Hardest Words To Write
the straight up ones, the yeah I said it ones, the ones without metaphor, simile, allusion, or affectation; the ones that tattle; the least lyrical; the crybaby ones; the soft ones are always hardest. the up too late, drank too much, won’t sleep ones; damn did I really ones; the never meant to and if [...]
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The Elegant President by Julian Gough
" I was fascinated by Mitt Romney's honest and thoughtful words in the recent video filmed at a $50,000-a-plate dinner for his donors. And I was sad to hear him say yesterday that he thought he could have expressed himself in a more elegant way. There is nothing more elegant than verse, and so I [...]
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Bottom of the Hill
I'm standing at the bottom of the hill. I tell myself the obvious: this is about to hurt. I stretch; play Olympic Girl. But I'm a terrible actress. So my stretch looks more like stalling. Which is exactly what I'm doing. I launch and play my usual soundtrack in my head--"Lose Yourself" by Eminem. Soon--not [...]
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A Comic Strip For My Poet Friends
Okay, so I spend a lot of time being serious on here, but this one is for all my poet friends out there... *to view the cartoon in a more reader-friendly size, just right click your mouse and select "View Image" from the drop down menu.
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Monthly Meter: August
fellowship/publication submissions: 8 fellowship/publication acceptances: 0 fellowship/publication rejections: 3 books: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - James Weldon Johnson *Coming Home - Stacy Hawkins Adams Jonestown: A Vexation - Carmen Gillepsie The Onliest One Alive - Catherine (Hyacinth) Thrash as told to Marian K. Towne *Kindred - Octavia Butler Secret Shame: 1. Popcorn for [...]
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