Detoured from the poem

Jane Shore in 'Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium' poem describing the ongoings at the place, writes of
'.. a grumpy
French-Candian family with three wired kids
detoured from the Cabot Creamery,
...'

I would have thought that kids love to go zoos and planetariums but the expression that they have been detoured from a place they like lets another poem going on not only of what one likes or does but of another of what one doesnt like or doesnt.

Exercise: Write a poem where you did something but in terms of what you didnt.

New shoes

In Jane shore's 'My mother's space shoes' poem there is a Xray fitter.

When we were kids
and my dad
on his way to office
put a paper on
the floor
'Put your foot on it'
He then outlined the
foot with a pen

It all meant
only one thing

Imagine

Yesterday while watching TV, I came across a snapshot of Statue of Liberty, and thought how would Buddha's hand look on her head.

I liked these lines of Ted Kooser. In that same page he writes 'If the light that falls upon what lies beyond is very bright, you see the scene in vivd colors and there is only the faintest hint of your reflection in the glass. if the light beyond the window is faint, as at dusk, the speaker's reflection in the glass is much more prominent. The speaker notices both his or her reflection and the scene beyond.'

Recently:
The dark shadow of my head on kitchen window is hollow in the middle with the leaves and stems of the bush outside. Feel like invisible man.

Identity crisis of a poem

How does a poem
written for a theme
feel
without that
tag

Extending the metaphor

In Happy family poem, Jane shore writes
Between the sealed lips of each fortune cookie,
a white scrap of tongue poked out


Its through oracles that the future is spoken.

In pg 62 with Jane Kenyon's 'In the Nursing home' Ted Kooser explains extended simile.

What was the first metaphor?


Exercise: Extend each metaphor that you meet.

Novelty of an old book

I'm rereading this book I like. some of the excerpts in the book are something I can relate to now. What Boonie calls leg trap is what I call being snowed in.

How does Billy Collins write like this?
painting poem
Broadside
Henry Darger
Duane Michaels
Poetry society of America
Webdelsol

Kim Addonizio's line in 'Ordinary Genius'

Life is a constant, unending construction and destruction ...





Cigarettes
Gin
Thom Gunn - The Butcher's son
Elizabeth Bishop - First Death in Nova Scotia
People of the future
Look to the future
Animals are passing from our lives
Common Dreams
Counter punch
The nation
CrooksandLiars

Better second half

When I picked Jamie Oliver: Turning up the heat, I didnt know anything about Jamie Oliver. That part would have been satisfied by reading the first half of the book on Jamie's rise as a great chef with successful TV shows. That could have easily been 'all the story' and then we go home.

But what follows next is 'Oliver's twist'(taking on the already punned) and this is where it gets more interesting. Jamie's bringing about awareness amongst the general public regarding good food change needed in schools by his 'feed me better' campaign, his 'fifteen foundation' for providing resources to talented youngsters are all great things to know.

'He represents the power of the individual, even in a global age when everything is dominted by mega corporations'- Gill Hudson.

'Its a Fame kind of movie,the coach who comes and whips the no-hope baseball team into shape, and changes more than the kids- thats what attracted me to the story.'- Michael Kuhn.

The message and the story are all in the story, only it could have been better told. With too many people quoted in the first half, it was difficult to maintain clarity.I feel that the story would have more life, if it was an autobiography.

3/5. 5.29.2009

A baby

can wheedle
milk
out of grandma's green bangles
out of mama's shin in black tracks

Dreaming proof

In a dream
you are two days ahead
A snack from home is
at the foot of the bed
Eating it I believe
you are home
My parents are changing
the furniture
bringing the bed
to living room
the kitchen is
now where the porch was

I think its a dream
I wake up to find you there
My brothers there too
still a kid
I ask him why he is so
says hes always been so
He came along with his BIL
and 40 other kids on an
express trip here

There are relatives
carrying food for them
I believe you are here
ignoring me

I want to walk away too
but cant too far

with the baby
getting hinged between
the bed her aunt is on
and the wall

with the baby
on a high swing
(who put her there?)
falling down
before I pull a chair
to get her down
she falls onto her
blanket

I wake up
You are still not here

Danger

I hold the baby down
to diaper
A black menacing cat
another mottled one
ready to pounce on
the baby
A dog too around
Strangely even in
their usual size
I seemed to hold
the baby
at their level

For a while
I mistook an older
baby for mine
leaving mine uncared
for and mangled

********
A baby book says consider the undiapered baby armed and dangerous

Summer game

The game of Jackstraws by Jane Shore.
This game is similar to pick up sticks game which we played in summer holidays. Our landlord's grandson who was a summer bird, an ace at carrom board had this game with him.

Shofar

At first
Reuse

Somewhere
down
the
line
Tuskers are chased
Antlers are staged