BloodLotus Issue 14 October 2009 ————————————————————————————————— Global Viewpoints Indigenous Peoples My poem “Myth” appears in the latest issue of BloodLotus, just hitting the screenstands. “Aboriginal Sin,” which originally appeared in Tikkun, is now reprinted in Global Viewpoints: Indigenous Peoples. The textbook anthologizes significant works and statements on the situation of indigenous peoples around the world, […]
Eating Poetry* (IV)
from Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France by Blaise Cendrar But I was a very bad poet. I didn’t know how to go to all the way to the end. I was hungry And all the days and all the women in the cafés and all the glasses I would have […]
Penelope
Penelope came with a house. We were renting from a friend and part of the deal was that if the friend rented to us, we had to take her dog. We already had Homer, a big lug of a part-Shepherd mutt, smart because obediently eager to please, but otherwise a very dopey beta. I didn’t […]
Eating Poetry* (III)
Shoot it Jimmy Our orchestra is the cat’s nuts – Banjo jazz with a nickelplated amplifier to soothe the savage beast – Get the rhythm That sheet stuff ‘s a lot of cheese Man gimme the key and lemme loose – I make ‘em crazy with my harmonies – Shoot it Jimmy Nobody Nobody else […]
Eating Poetry (II)
Of Mere Being The palm at the end of the mind, Beyond the last thought, rises In the bronze decor, A gold-feathered bird Sings in the palm, without human meaning, Without human feeling, a foreign song. You know then that it is not the reason That makes us happy or unhappy. The bird sings. Its […]