When a bowl breaks

In the daze of morning cleaning
I set a washed brown ikea bowl
bought as is
on an inverted black pan
relegated to egg boiling
I woke up to the
sound of shards

Can I put it back
like a wooden egg puzzle
or by Kintsugi 
The golden Repair  

The brown bowl revealed
the ivory within

Plundered hearts

NYJournalofbooks

Letter Composed during a lull in the fighting

I heard of Yellow Birds on NPR but hadnt read it. I am glad to have the chance to read the author in poetry.
Kevin Powers
Washingtonpost

Title poem

Immagine & Poesia

Lidia Chiarelli
IMMAGINE & POESIA

The beginning poems and paintings with Emma Dickinson's
"Forever is composed of nows"
and Lawrence Ferlinghetti's epigrams set a stage that they later ones couldnt share.
The later half of the poems are about visits to the tourist spots in newyork. I was reminded of the time I spent visiting the city.
My NY Times Square poem in Urban Confustions summer issue 2011.

Foam flowers

mislead hummingbird

The Call of the Verdin

is irresistible
It continues till you
look for it
and then its gone

The Complete poems of James Dickey

James Dickey

A Poet's Glossary

On the book
Aleatory
Amoebean Verses
I always speak Anacoluthon
Bouts Rimes
Country House Poetry
Diwan poetry
Chhayavaad
Doha poetry
Dream Allegory
Dub poetry
Conceit poetry
Dyfalu
Elliptical poetry
burt on Susan
Ensalada poem
Fakhr poetry
Four Ages of Poetry
Glosa
Griot  - Indian poets too had to write praises of kings, article
Hain teny Vs Avadhanam
 Manyoshu
Nature poetry
Paradelle
Oriki
Pantoum
Rajaz
Rhopalic

Hum

Jamaal May

Poetry of Witness

Yannis Ritsos
Paul Celan
Nazim Hikmet
Paul Eluard
Sergei Yesenin

exercise:

1. What would your breathcrystal poem  be?
2. Schwarz Milk - Black Milk to Schwarzenegger meaning German Names
Black Milk  - Oil is the black milk of the world
3. cent pour cent - one hundred percent
   Heard it a lot back home in India
4. What  Realia would describe you?
5. Chestnut covers
 Admiring paper of Chestnut Tree
Our Ancestors didnt know   
A book would become an Albatross
6. Alexandrine

Garish

I learnt how to spell garish correctly.
My friend sent along this oil paintings link.
What goes on in the mind of the artist when the first stroke or paint is applied onto the canvas.

A swath of paint 
Is it like a newline in poetry?
A breath that sustains life

Best New Poets 2013

Best New Poets 2013
Fludde
Taker of the Temperature
An Apology 
Just Try
Benjamin Sutton, “from Footnotes on the City”
Cori A. Winrock, “Débridement” 

Native American poetry

Hartico

Getting Across by Cater Revard and a poetry exercise

Iowa review Vol 38 No 2

The Iowa Review (Vol. 38, No. 2, Fall 2008)


Ra hee duk -The custom of Aerial Burial and other poems - xerosis

short short stories of Alex Epstein leave the effect of a Grapeshot on a reader subjecting them to different transformations in each little work.

The back cover has the names of contributors in a poem format with rhyme and all.

In "Note from the Estrscans', brandon Krieg uses a powerful metaphor.

'.. the stream will run through
the comb of your bones without straightening'.

Looking at a thing myriad times

Author: Richard Grossman

With simple language and logic, the poet reverses the universally accepted truths. In 'Marriage' poem, it seems to the surviving partner that death liberated his partner to a happier future. Many stories convince us that life is all about love and here comes this poem.

The titles are on the upper right corner, obscure. Its fun to read the poem and then the title and then the poem with new eyes. The characters - shepherd and the animals, are fixed and so is the stanza format.
The poems move from a aha single line to a whole wonder when they are about specific animals. Here each animal gets its character. The animals are no longer a cluster.

Spillway Issue 18: Games people play

spillway

Fairy tales fast forwarded to future, set in modern time
'This morning' by Nan Fry is a fill in the missing letters poem. An apple poem elsewhere is looking out from inside of an apple.

Punch and Judy
Emmett Kelly
Mazel tov
Thibodaux

From the missing letters poem, I take an inspiration but in the opposite direction, word stuffing like Bit stuffing but meaningful insertion.
dilligence(sic)

A contributor

Games People Play

Kiwiland

Author: John Kinsella

A poetry book after a long time.

We learn about kangaroos in and out. A goat. has it ever been treated with so much weight?