Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Solitaire
solitaire is soothing I forget I'm sick
while the hand plays out Canfield or
old-fashioned patience putting off
real feeling doing anything nothing
reading Alice Hoffman New Yorker
horror stories everything loses its
charm conviction point I can't stay
bed stop being even this must count
better later grapes then lapse fear
dreams woozy warpage dull flat
type address lists stand up oops
tomorrow theatre if I dare to go
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Being Sick
vitamin C echinacea goldenseal ephedra tea
Yin Chiao pills + usual St. John's wort Mega
Men joint formula fish oil I really hate being
sick only gradually happier as day wears on
work a little defeated by Word finish Wendy
Wasserstein "Elements of Style" what an odd
touching performance I dream of New York
whisky aspirin for night stay up late as I can
Monday, January 29, 2007
Memory Foam
still January
gas dependent
electric schedule
even staying home
tense neck tired
eyes tasty curry
cognac toast our
poetry book yes
heated seats ASR
mystery button a
question of tooth
memory foam
is it a con job
sleep as well
in summer
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Fine Linen
undue slowness
give in have cold
I am not the one
listening Poirot
boy radio dark
iron fine linen
guest towels
give up normal
days repeating
smile be happy
in love again
still ourselves
rare well done
briefly apart
Saturday, January 27, 2007
At Capacity
Icelandic symphony Japanese music
Long Island eloquence dog love naps
"Butterfly" CPR training coincident
too me for more routine at capacity
free Sabbath rove centuries world
here now seasoned sunshine oaks
expand further writing past present
limits attempt Everest before youth
forgets context bless parents genes
enough or not art something else
practical chores build strength no
different soul body only real time
Friday, January 26, 2007
Not Us
Hrant Dink editor shot
latest Armenian victim
insult our own identity
American truth painful
Bush OKs killing Iranis
in Iraq how does it help
not us turning forward
need lead sanity sense
Swim Faster
where was I
typing a bookful of poems
giving Pearl Chase a break
admirable application will
win without
trying mistake self-defeat
what story observe energy
arisen swim faster natural
punctuation
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Special Water
meet about dam above town
leaking dubious City Council
wake up take it out right now
dawn dark deep fog late light
snuggle rise warming house
pee naked pills special water
kundalini stretches sat nam
breaths thank zafu grapefruit
granola launch me into day
meetings poetry newspaper
tennis (go Roger Serena!) do
end Pearl Chase script slog
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Night Light
so dark I hear the creek rushing by
below the pastures fences invited
trees becoming dog barks far away
partial waxing moon glowing cloud
Pleiades visible only sideways Tom
tokes murmurs disappears no still
night lights timed off pick sonatas
for me vitamin C blissed recipient
Like a Dance
perfection seems to hover over us
like a dance of unearthly figures
(Auerbach on Dante)
"This Book Will Save Your Life"
wonderful novel by A. M. Homes
exceptional movies watch now:
"Land of Plenty" (Wenders 2005)
"Country" "Basquiat" "Betty Blue"
"Pollock" "Confusion of Genders"
"Don't Come Knocking" "Contempt"
"Full Frontal" "Mysterious Skin"
Sunday, January 21, 2007
High Buzzing
in my ears high buzzing more hiss than whistle
over music over road noise silence forgotten in
talking radio play absorption story actors acting
going so far exacting nighttime driving inexact
flaring lights drill brain I can't see in darkness
no one can narrow road high beams only hope
lights battle darkness always wins loses sunrise
even dark day like today enables waking warm
theatre action maybe beyond prop management
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Other Trees
random writing sounds like
something random courage
sons report glad schooling
glad thriving remember me
other trees replacing gone
better other has to be true
Friday, January 19, 2007
Better Proust
Homer gory Virgil Dante better tennis
champions young fighting Central Park
something to break cycle still goes on
better Proust than epic battles fantasy
killing same subject pain sorrow waste
exultant victors more subtly destroyed
inner burps farts toenails organs teeth
hair growing sweat wrinkles not enough
fire flood collisions age what thinking
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Tight Belt
weather stuck
typical here crazy
virus attack
whoosh then gone
citrus fails
skiers frustrated
emergency
is anybody there
tight belt
nobody touching
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Come Home
U.S. out of Iraq right now
we made crisis but we can't fix it
destroyed their infrastructure
disbanded their security
set them against each other
they can't fix it with us there
shelling bombing their cities doesn't help
breaking into their houses doesn't help
driving around armored doesn't help
walking around armed doesn't help
protecting our forces doesn't help
Army Marines come home
not just from Iraq from all countries
diplomats only belong abroad
think how we'd feel
another nation's soldiers here
Chinese patrolling our streets
Bulgarians rewriting our laws
Argentines securing our borders
Indonesians protecting our leaders
anybody at all building bases on American soil
but we have bases everywhere
threatening bullying bribing meddling
too much military not too little
because we are doing too much
soldiers come home
study war no more
practice peace
Monday, January 15, 2007
Nothing There
let go give in sometimes feel it
force failing as lights flicker go
out back on not always forever
read fiction abandoned possible
alternative write something fact
escaping too complex my mind
reels nothing there beneath me
love is real sustaining separate
persons falling gods tragic fate
Sunday, January 14, 2007
What He Likes
organ soprano flute myself alone as audience
bright resonant church Romanian invocation
then Bach alternating Christopher Wicks read
Billy Collins on what he likes in poetry lovely
history multiplies questions in what sense was
Pearl Chase Bernhard Hoffmann's secretary one
example who started Community Arts what of
early Montecito then there's Chase Palm Park
I tire not neither do I spin fast enough to do
read all awaits ready emerge invited weary
typing talk tablet hundreds thousands words
aieee! we err on the side of you guessed it yes
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Go On
Kolkata now that's news to me
a little bit of acknowledgement
inspires you to go on
what's happening not enough
I pace restless adrift
bad news getting worse this
fix inextricable reason useless
can't undo mistakes
my own equal better face
couldn't dream it otherwise
Friday, January 12, 2007
Ghost Opening
ghost opening coldest night
my play not happening lost
energy inspiration unshown
we speak taboo calmly warm
difficult easy with each other
dine delicious sympathy true
epic Virgil adventure savage
gods demanding slaughter
our wars their petty proxy
eternal facticity human duty
honors what we can't deny
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Snow Day
hobbling queasy napped resilient
count on it always morning light
snow day let go bedroom bright
picture me as queen share world
amusing now then painfully self-
conscious seems to say something
lipstick dreamy eyes hand king's
knee sang "Spring Is Here" to boys
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
What to Do
flowing staccato chaos lyrical stillness
lost time early birthday later isolation
call someone go out stay put snow
suddenly falls blue sky reappears our
happy color use it warm water all
over move decimal lessen gravity
one two meeting cancelled too bad
yep someone tell me what to do
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Twenties Mind
books keep coming Gore Vidal finished here's
George Trow whole life hobby Marshall Mason
on directing Viola Spolin barely sampled I too
know printing Bobby Wagner falling dominant
prep school transition business twenties mind
cold coming I shut down studio save propane
come inside warm house reading Aeneid out
attack video script I've promised to improve
thinking surgery fragility age is real another
stage no fiction performing actual mortality
Monday, January 08, 2007
Reach Out
optimism gratitude mindfulness hope generosity
couldn't find my car reality thin kids in T-shirts
January wet pleasant appetite accumulates road
flow pastries anything dress rehearsal no curtain
call staged no one focuses help me reach out John
responds thanks John sea voyage gutter repairs
Carol helping database track poetry supporters
positive psychology Haydn sorry history since
Saturday, January 06, 2007
All Think
planning poetry
festival who when
where imagine
institution lives
longly intense
decisions emerge
willful group
inevitable action
so many poets
arranging words
we all think
provoke opinion
need be always
about something
instant snatch
actual sufficient
Friday, January 05, 2007
Never Enough
poems accepted Christmas put away
blustering wet wind treacherous gods
ensnare Aeneas willingly manipulated
simpler here between sheets another
borrowed pillow comforts aching hips
new slip-ons feed mature embracing
difference never enough open days
Thursday, January 04, 2007
What Sum
pretending same living lame contented
playing solitaire eventually one works out
no bed escape night dread gravity not
restful floating dream strange haunting
something else arthritis weak willing
inertia Nick Ray smoking dying working
this week poetry next Pearl Chase
then Johnny visited again inscrutable
what sum allows discreet withdraw
loving happy friends precious far away
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Two Worlds
praise American manufacture
proprietary process models
oil flow engineering anything
simple complex heavy acid I
find no overlap how friend
Snow's two worlds continue
big industrial buildings lurk
unnoticed beyond aesthetic
every product secretly made
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Far Away
twenty plus us new miscellany gathered my
independence uncompromised longings for
bookchat movie lore and insight something
more than anecdotes unfulfilled glamour is
dead referents unrecognizable this littler
world view foggy wet and far away two
enough talked out thought circling in
Monday, January 01, 2007
Same Doubt
bright moon light night party
hit pooped after giving Aaron
Spelling my comb woke fright
sick snap zounds rise write
going second week recovered
equal being possibly more
then the cleanup quickly
done daze teamwork pack
clean getaway procedure
robed cold shoulder expose
weak willing partner mark
start despite same doubt
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