Archive for April, 2009
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
“Elegies for America” at the Santa Monica B & N, Tonight, 7pm
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Time: 7:00pm – 8:40pm
Location: Barnes and Noble, 3rd St. Promenade
Street: 1201 3rd Street
City/Town: Santa Monica, CA
Tonight I’m reading with Jamey Hecht, author of Limousine Midnight Blue: Fifty Frames from the Zapruder Film, at an event someone’s calling “Elegies for America.” I don’t know if there’s a poet I respect more than [...]
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Monday, April 27th, 2009
LATFoB
Haven’t been posting lately, too busy being busy and important, as my wife would say. The only way I’m going to keep posting here is if I start to ignore the fact that what I’m posting is mindless muck at the bottom of my brain, so let’s hop to it.
I spent all day Saturday at [...]
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
Hiking Alone
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HIKING ALONE
I shimmy out on sandstone and slate rock,
past the soft ledges where the last shrubs
grow. I’ve got my camera, unshuttered and
silent, ready to take back with me whatever
I’ve come here for—sore arms and a sunburn,
blue sky like something new. At the floor
of the canyon far below a stream [...]
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Friday, April 10th, 2009
The Sense of Being Looked At
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THE SENSE OF BEING LOOKED AT
Around the corner, footsteps. A heel
clicking stone. The slosh of loose gravel
and then the no-sound itself conspicuous—
even the crickets hold their breath, hush
their rough legs while deep inside houses
women reading bedtime stories pause
to change their endings, one good wish
at a time. A car sails [...]
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009
The Memory of Water
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THE MEMORY OF WATER
It can be demonstrated with thermo-
luminescence: the salt solution
retains knowledge of what it once held,
though nature, though logic
would tell it otherwise. Dumb as a bedpan,
the hydrogen bond remembers
the lithium, the sodium chloride no matter
how [...]
