Poem in Wartime |
Sunlight dapples
a hill of corpses
heaped in homage
to the ambivalent
aesthetics of war.
One must repel
beauty at all costs.
Posted by on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:03:00 GMT |
Here Be Dragons |
In a shrinking world, they huddle at the core:gnashing teeth, droolingfor a bite of Google Earth.
Posted by on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:44:00 GMT |
Prequel |
Before Godzilla met Bambi, he met Ghandiwith much the same result. But I wonder ifin that split infinite secondbetween the onedeath and the other, Ghandi might have gamboledinto Bambi's guiltless body...
Posted by on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:18:00 GMT |
Haiku |
Shaved cue-ball bald,the pendulous nut sack swingsbackward to childhood.The above is missing a syllable in the first line. Lazy American me. This comes, by the way, from a prompt that Ryan Ski gave at...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:02:00 GMT |
Why I Quit My MFA But Cant Quit Writing Poetry |
THERE'S THE RUBEnvying young poets the rageYou wish you could reverse your nightAnd wake up days upon their page As old as them, as debut-bright.To feel the jolt when words go right,To suddenly hold e...
Posted by on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:53:00 GMT |
Which Came First, the Chicken or the Degree? |
In his essay "Politics and the English Language," George Orwell points out that abstraction can degrade the sense of a sentence as thoroughly as syntax errors. So, for fun, and as a kind of parody or ...
Posted by on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:48:00 GMT |
Poem For (Anonymous) |
Where the cicadas' chirpmerges with the music hummingfrom my iPod and the sky sags blue above bamboo lke a tarp,I pace my particular path, scratching my heels through the grass,whose blades lean and b...
Posted by on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:24:00 GMT |
The Idea of Order at Sea Gaia |
Shore on the shore of the actual sea, your wave pool's pale, unpalatableflattery fails to con even the gullibletechno-touristthose early adapterscued to marvel every mimic miracle, every man made mod...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:48:00 GMT |
Deckard Was A Replicant |
I've already posted this basic message as a bulletin, but I've just linked one of the Deckard songs to this page, so I feel the need to reiterate and explain just what on earth Deckard Was A Replicant...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:23:00 GMT |
Toto-logy |
I'm a regular reader and relatively frequent comment poster on my father's blog (called Toto, for reasons explained on the site) at http://rabbirami.blogspot.com/It struck me tonight, while I was read...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:57:00 GMT |
