Archive for October, 2011
Friday, October 21st, 2011
“Moment Ahead of Moment” by Susan Terris
–from Rattle #26, Winter 2006
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Thursday, October 20th, 2011
TALKING INTO THE EAR OF A DONKEY by Robert Bly
Review by A.P. Maddox TALKING INTO THE EAR OF A DONKEY by Robert Bly Norton 500 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10110 ISBN 978-0-939-08022-3 2011, 107 pp., $24.95 www.wwnorton.com It is surprising to me, now I think of it, that there aren’t more Robert Blys walking around. All I mean is poets who throw [...]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
“Call Loudly When You Leave” by Mark Taksa
Mark Taksa CALL LOUDLY WHEN YOU LEAVE The nurse’s finger glides down the sick list. She cannot locate my wife’s name. As if I had asked for my lost sock, she stares. All I do is recall calling for the location of my sock. My wife did not answer. I called into a room, got [...]
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
“And Yet, Another Nature Poem” by Richard Vargas
Richard Vargas AND YET, ANOTHER NATURE POEM maybe it’s me but when sticking something up my ass i like to know what are the ingredients so imagine my surprise when flipping over the box of preparation h and reading that it consists of 3% shark liver oil it’s one thing to end up fillet’d on [...]
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Monday, October 17th, 2011
“Sonny’s Song” by Glenn Morazzini
Glenn Morazzini SONNY’S SONG “Someday, they’re gonna write a blues song just for fighters,” he once said. “I’ll be for slow guitar, soft trumpet, and a bell.” —Sonny Liston, in King of the World by David Remnick As a kid I carried fields on my back, sharecropper’s black cotton, when daddy wasn’t hoeing welts on [...]
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Sunday, October 16th, 2011
“Altar Boy in Tennis Shoes” by Tim Sproul
Tim Sproul ALTAR BOY IN TENNIS SHOES Just because it’s Waldport, Oregon and not St. Peters, just because the church bulletin is a bad Xerox— although I see Tuesday is Ellen Bunt’s fudge and sea foam sale to repair St. Francis damaged in the wind storm, just because the crucifix is carved with all the [...]
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Saturday, October 15th, 2011
DARK ARCHIVE by Laura Mullen
Review by Bruce Whiteman DARK ARCHIVE by Laura Mullen University of California Press 2120 Berkeley Way Berkeley, CA 94704-1012 ISBN 978-0-520-26886-9 2011, 134 pp., $22.95 http://www.ucpress.edu “…and the ghost always carries the message…that the gap between personal and social, public and private, objective and subjective is misleading in the first place. That is to say [...]
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Friday, October 14th, 2011
“First Frost” by Kathleen Walsh Spencer
Kathleen Walsh Spencer FIRST FROST we don’t know where the dog slept last night the temperature fell below 32 she did not have her winter coat yet the door closed behind her the temperature fell below 32 we’d protected our plants from frost the door closed behind her we turned the thermostat up we’d protected [...]
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Thursday, October 13th, 2011
“Postcard to Jerry L. Crawford” by Red Shuttleworth
Red Shuttleworth POSTCARD TO JERRY L. CRAWFORD Dear Jerry, We’re at the radiant-blood precipice, tumbleweeds snagged by barb wire. Yesterday, as daybreak floated across rock and sagebrush, someone left a blood-dripping, gut-and-lung shot coyote in a shopping cart in the Moses Lake Wal-Mart parking lot. The cart boy, Brent, was dispatched to have a look. [...]
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Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
“Swing” by Suzume Shi
Suzume Shi SWING Simply by pumping my thin arms & legs I could tip the world up on its lip like a penny & rock it back down shift the wind so my bangs blew back. stopped. washed back over my eyes. stopped. & my house & the trees & my father & mother & [...]
