Category Archives: 100 Poems 2011

8. the seagull

it had to be illusion something, as they say, attributable to the weirding weather Texas drought or some asofyettobe-calculated algorithm of formal space a discoloration, a warp of natural fabrics, nitrogen and oxygen Aprilfooling in May but in a window square of gray Saturday sky a crack or hole emerged opened wider and wider with […]

7: how heavy am I, I ask

birds and water are drawn from lines say from a lookout in the desert where the smoke still can be seen rising, see it as lines you can dig for fish bones in the sand and find them fully dressed and sharp hot as the bottom of a furnace and wonder where it should follow […]

6: a moment in the life of Paznan and Gisela

in the court below the blackwings turned to paper and then she opened her eyes and saw that it was true Paznan flicked an orange peel and told her it would be so and so it was but not really, an image after blinkingfast and after being spacked in the head with the broadside of […]

5: it . . . tears pleasantly at my skin

until the storm hit and our hands parted remembering how I used to think about the boy who posted his Ciudad Juarez sister nearby the car saying “five dollars American” and we thought about it and wondered if the boy would watch now it’s something quaint in the hard wind as a break of siding […]

3: traditional haiku in binary

in pearlwhite blossoms I saw a spider eye and the universe turned red suns for taking hang low from hillside trees, reach- ing, I take your hand

2: the poetry teacher

The poetry teacher told us to make our poems modern so to use words like radioactive and sex (as every modern knew about this) and chrome and catastrophe and computer and rising water line we asked him why chrome and not steel and he told us that we should never take things that didn’t belong […]

1: the end of the world and the beginning of everything else

the end of the world and the beginning of everything else when Cruz opened the door he saw a man holding a flower in a little white cup, and Cruz asked him who and what are you and the small skeletoned man with the flower in his cup said he couldn’t remember his name and […]

My Project for 100 Days 2011

I’m looking forward to this summer’s 100 Days writing, reading, view et cetera. You can find info about the project here. Here’s the new description The 2011 100 Days Projects is going to play things somewhat looser this summer than in the past. What do we mean by this: 2008 saw a collaboration between Carianne […]

100 Days 2011

John, Carianne, and I are currently thinking about the 100 Days 2011 kickoff. Those people interested will learn lots in the next few days, as things will be finalized by Monday, May 10th. The emphasis this summer will be on collaboration rather than on “following” any particular artist. Look forward to a message in the […]