NaPoWriMo
Arse Technica (NaPoWriMo 11)
I have failed to write a poem about technology
And am about to fail again
10 Candles (NaPoWriMo 10)
10 Candles 1Behind a flaming coconut cakeCrowned in rainbow candles Your eyes are fixed on her 2This green sprout of a girl Barely broken through the crustOf our former earth 3We thought we were gardenersAdmired our first attemptThat loud laughing pansy in the yard 4What kind of plant grows feather-softAround an iron core?Wears her bruised leaves as … Read more
Wonderful Ed Lives On (NaPoWriMo 9)
Wonderful Ed Lives On Let’s face facts EdI may never see you againYou are nearing 90 now and My excuse for visiting your piece of heavenHas evaporated like spilled beer on a Santa Fe porchNot to mention this pandemic(I’d love to hear your thoughts) Do you know, Ed, I search for you now and thenJust did … Read more
Sunday Morning (NaPoWriMo 7)
David Byrne knows how music works but
It isn’t because he wrote that book
How Music Works (NaPoWriMo 6)
David Byrne knows how music works but
It isn’t because he wrote that book
Razor (NoPoWriMo 3)
Razor Two of the lyrics I remember most oftenInvolve razor blades “I’m cold as a new razor blade”Mourns Cohen to Marianne While Anna Tivel conjures“A razor on a rough cheek” Razors are precision engineered in German factoriesTo become metaphors Cold steel meets warm flesh inA daily dance of enemies Five little knives drawn across Your most … Read more
Paris (NaPoWriMo 2)
Paris We emerge from yourUnderground birth canalBlinking in the light of historyNeeding to be slappedBorn again as People who have been to Paris We know nothingGet lost in your spider web streets Distracted byLiving black and white beat poetryA corner cafe where a woman dressed in black smokes a long thin cigarette And another woman And Paris, I … Read more
April Fools (NaPoWriMo 1)
Add April 1 to the list of Covid casualties
I want to be fooled
To be surprised into heaving laughter
But nothing is surprising anymore