Making "Stasis" rhyme with "September" |
I am a mound of fat with a mouth near the top. I live with the cats in a den of sleep. One brown Mouth and a head full of blood to share. We stay warm until we are not. The orchids are dropping their ...
Posted by Geeky Readerton on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:55:00 PST |
Leave it alone and it will change in front of your eyes |
Remeber that blasted light study pome? Peep this draft: Mermaid:Second feather, bird beat underBlanket of storm, why let him nest again?I was tireless.His feathers couldDrop their silks along a crease...
Posted by Geeky Readerton on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:32:00 PST |
Things that scare me: |
Recent poems! A radically revised version of Blood DreamsHere I am, dismantling the bloodless cat, all muscle and sinew and bones reed-thin, bones that beg to be snapped. Driving my fingers down to wr...
Posted by Geeky Readerton on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:11:00 PST |
Untitled poem about (surprise!) a bee - early draft |
Attendants! Admit it: you cleave To song for safety, where Silence signals, where drone displaces more than sound. People who make illustrated sheets of usCannot think of the close dark, the Pinhole s...
Posted by Geeky Readerton on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:08:00 PST |
Light Study (Notes for a Novel) |
In dreams he doesn't make an entrance.No slink or strut, he's always been just there:Peripheral, merciless afternoon brightLazy beach scavenger perched on a park bench?at the driving end of a fishing ...
Posted by Geeky Readerton on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 02:49:00 PST |
Animus |
The eggs were my specialty but the whites balanced atop the yolks and refused to mix. I was bored of my own cooking. Mirror of myself but you looked like a schoolmate, hauled out of the shallow end of...
Posted by Geeky Readerton on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 07:50:00 PST |
Blood Dreams |
Knife edge of spite.poems not meant to seek god but toExorcise, the clean eradication of flawed selfThe literate shriek so theweekly dream of a baby bird goring her dead mamaStartle eyed,cloudy, beak ...
Posted by Geeky Readerton on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 11:32:00 PST |
Light Study, revision |
Light Study (Exposition Cast of Characters)Mother(figure) emits lavenderSmells like lightsmooths a hand downOver errant frizzy curls, says,Forgive yourselfHow to begin, when oneFirst has to heft tha...
Posted by Geeky Readerton on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 11:30:00 PST |
On becoming a poet |
Lesson One: If you can find a rule, break it. Most poets will convey a sense of space.A regional aesthetic: mandala of lights in Times Square, Pacific coast fog rolling over a teenaged Volkswagen, Swe...
Posted by Geeky Readerton on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:40:00 PST |
Light Study, 2 |
And who was waiting for you there, in the bright sun, on the other side of the door, slouched on a park benchacross the gravel pit at the driving end of a fishing linelooped around your sideview,snake...
Posted by Geeky Readerton on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:38:00 PST |
