Do bears imagine in fruit red, olive, and orange?
When they crack the surface of shallow water,
Stir the blue and white secrets of the dawn sky
Into scatter mirrors, venus like a fired seed crashing
Aquarius into blue-hot cinders, mountains blending
With minutes-old light, where the memory of two
Faces glanced the day behind, saw themselves sad
And the shadow of their lover, then sky, sand sprinkle,
Do they swing their noses downstream or into the air,
Feel the weights that once supported libraries,
Governments, the cool porches of homes where wine
Stains the white floor and red prints diminish with the moon.
Every grain at the river bottom is an olive or an orange.
We might touch eyeball to water, watch for sprouts.
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100 Days :: Summer 2011
This will be my fourth year participating in the fun, exciting, and challenging 100 Days projects: year 1 I wrote one hundred poems; year two I wrote one hundred stories; year three I wrote 100 fictions. For 2011 I will round things out with another 100 poems.
But what's the intention. This summer my focus will be on hunting things down and tagging, hyperlinking, and using social media to identify those found items that inspire the poems. I will be watching for what the artists, musicians, and other creators do and will try to make poetry out of "found relationships." But also thinking hard about imagery, language, and orthographics. I've never been comfortable with punctuation in poetry but I am fascinated by putting heavy trucks on the edges of leaves or turning one celled creatures into things that point north, where yellow ducks live. -
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