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Monthly Archives: March 2009

the sky went wan, and the wind came cold

(I kept thinking of this poem.)

Scifaikuest & NaPoWriMo

Upon coming home from an awesome weekend in New York, I found my contributor’s copy of the February 2009 Scifaikuest (the print version, which is different from the online version, which also contained one of my scifaiku last month). Hooray! I’ve also decided to participate in NaPoWriMo this year, and write a poem a day [...]

“Borrowing: From the French”

Some of the hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From evils which never arrived! – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Doth thou really be-eth Shakespeareth?” demanded the man, grinning, in the flat Lancashireish accent Will had come to understand was American. – from “The Dust Enclosed Here” by Kage Baker

Amy Lowell’s “Meditation”

A wise man, Watching the stars pass across the sky, Remarked: In the upper air the fireflies move more slowly.

By God, go read the whole thing.

I’m in several with her, standing in back, her arms around me, her prize melon, a book just she would write. – from “Mother and Daughter” by Lyn Lifshin

dead kelp like the hair of the drowned

Lock a fellow in a windowless room to perform rote tasks just tricky enough to make him have to think, but still rote, tasks involving numbers that connect to nothing he’ll ever see or care about, a stack of tasks that never goes down, and nail a clock to the wall where he can see [...]

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