Friday, May 28, 2010
Bubble Gum Saints
Monday, May 17, 2010
summer's (lost) seams
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Pabellones VI
Monday, April 12, 2010
Little Green Men
No le gusta esta ciudad y, sin embargo, no se atreve a marcharse. Parece que todas las ciudades sean la misma, una gran carretera, un paso de zebra, un camión blanco como un elefante. No hay que pensar en el elefante blanco.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Inward voices
"Ever since I was first read to, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn’t hear. As my eyes followed the sentence, a voice was saying it silently to me. It isn’t my mother’s voice, or the voice of any person I can identify, certainly not my own. It is human, but inward, and it is inwardly that I listen to it. It is to me the voice of the story or the poem itself. The cadence, whatever it is that asks you to believe, the feeling that resides in the printed word, reaches me through the reader-voice. I have supposed, but never found out, that this is the case with all readers--to read as listeners--and with all writers, to write as listeners" (Eudora Welty)
Friday, January 22, 2010
Wintry Helper
“Give me your hand, child, I’ll tuck it in my pocket.
Close your eyes, child, tight against the snow.”
Eyelashes with little milky dew,
Sealing everything together
With frosty iced glue.
It was a snowstorm,
And you remember it because you had
Never seen anything like it before.
Your hand had been given away in a strange pocket
It was too cold to feel it anymore.
And yet, the bitter wind felt like an ally
A wintry helper took your Californian soul.
A
Thursday, January 21, 2010
You are now running on low battery
one wet afternoon
i found myself looking for those few
escapist words
i was soaked to the core by
rivers outside and inside running
dirty thick almost sweet
i searched all around
your name my sweet darling
ain’t paper anymore
remnant of the liquid word
remnant of your liquid tongue
dirty thick flowing rhyming
you'll drink my mouth all
easy rhymes rhyming with
your name
after mine
trapped in books
florescent
white
your image is so bright
your eyes don’t look so blue anymore
A