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Poetry Friday

FALL

Fall, falling, fallen. That’s the way the season Changes its tense in the long-haired maples That dot the road; the veiny hand-shaped leaves Redden on their branches (in a fiery competition With the final remaining cardinals) and then Begin to sidle and float through the air, at last Settling into colorful layers carpeting [...]

Poetry Friday

LEAVES

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Every October it becomes important, no, necessary to see the leaves turning, to be surrounded by leaves turning; it’s not just the symbolism, to confront in the death of the year your death, one blazing farewell appearance, though the irony isn’t lost on you that nature is most seductive when it’s about to [...]

Poetry Friday

BUTTERFLY CATCHER

In the Sixties Nabokov switched

from ink to eraser- topped pencil

on index cards    a box of cards for Ada    a box

of cards for dreams whose “curious features”

include “erotic tenderness and heart-rending enchantment”

in one draft he traded “stillness and heat”

for “silence, a burning”                          so picture:

Vladimir [...]

Video Poetry (Coma Edition)

JOE STRUMMER & the MESCALEROS – COMA GIRL

i was crawling through a festival way out west i was thinking about love and the acid test but first i got real dizzy with a real rockin’ gang then i saw the coma girl, and the excitement gang

and the rain came in from the [...]

Video Poetry (Non-Blonde edition)

Two songs, as relevant in 2008 as they were in 1992 (when the album came out), if not earlier, when I’d see 4 Non Blondes playing at the I-Beam in the Haight.

4 NON BLONDES – DEAR MR. PRESIDENT

I’m looking outside of my windows The view that I see Is a child and [...]

Video Poetry (part fire)

ALKALINE TRIO – BURN

There’s a lightning storm each and every night Crashing inside you like motorbikes We toss and turn, sleep so loud Grind the teeth in our empty mouths Our empty

There’s a forest fire burning bright Spreading quickly towards our last rights Nowhere to run, pointless to hide Just lay there [...]