Wild MushroomsPoetry and other language, foraged and hoarded.Tutor- October 29, 2004 Tutor Still too young to drive myself, Id arrive by five, chauffeured in my parents Oldsmobile, the light just starting to fade behind the trees. Her brother answered the door a hulk of a boy in my class who...http://www.logolalia.com/wildmushroom/archives/000880.html In Translation- October 27, 2004 In Translation There is no lozenge to bring back the voice two golfballs sit on the greens of your throat. Its the plague of the year you cant speak, no choice but to listen to others, or croak...http://www.logolalia.com/wildmushroom/archives/000878.html Accidents- October 27, 2004 Accidents I have built a photograph of my father at the scene of an accident a story that happened years before my birth: an overturned car and my father kneeling down to wrap his white t-shirt around the blood...http://www.logolalia.com/wildmushroom/archives/000877.html Ganesh- October 27, 2004 Ganesh My neighbor asks if he may borrow my elephant please he begs at the kitchen stoop. I promise to bring it back on Sunday. I raise a brow. Are the kids at home Last week I loaned you...http://www.logolalia.com/wildmushroom/archives/000876.html Quiet Neighbor- October 24, 2004 Quiet Neighbor No one knows your secret self why you snap three times as you sink into mud on a walk, or that wink you give to the invisible man, childhood gaff. The fingers of old gloves laugh like...http://www.logolalia.com/wildmushroom/archives/000874.html A Poem a Day- October 23, 2004 I've been writing a poem a day for about a month now. I think this today's poem, "Montessori Nursery School," was the 30th. I'll keep going until I run out of steam, and hopefully that won't be too soon. I...http://www.logolalia.com/wildmushroom/archives/000873.html Lovely Boat- October 23, 2004 Lovely Boat A girl folds a red lotus, centers a candle and floats it downstream. As it passes the bridge a man with a net scoops it out. This is tourism in China. She has creased hundreds of prows, but...http://www.logolalia.com/wildmushroom/archives/000872.html Procedure- October 23, 2004 Procedure In the cardiac wing among the wires, electrodes and green line light beeps of arrhythmias is a mop thrust into a bucket. My dad gives the thumbs up as he rolls backward on his gurney through the surgery doors,...http://www.logolalia.com/wildmushroom/archives/000871.html Montessori Nursery School- October 23, 2004 Montessori Nursery School Everything is work; the blocks, books, plastic castle with secret passages. I forget and say play.They overlook it for the first day and better, the wages are less than a babysitters. Pages of days flip past, work...http://www.logolalia.com/wildmushroom/archives/000870.html Raven- October 23, 2004 Raven A girl blows the word flutter across the table to the boy who asked for night. Andy Warhols Marilyn gazes technicolor at the fire extinguisher. Ive sneaked poetry into an art class - words are cut, cropped and pasted...http://www.logolalia.com/wildmushroom/archives/000869.html |