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
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Friday, March 2, 2012
Thursday, March 1, 2012
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.
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.
Expectations
we dont know them
until unmet
of a person with
broken throat
to not rest
and scream his love
until unmet
of a person with
broken throat
to not rest
and scream his love
A long shoe string
My mom asks if it is mine
I say its too long to be a
shoestring
She takes it to her room
to see if it goes into
any of her clothes
Nope
It lies in the laundry
basket
waiting to be claimed
Can you create something
out of nothing?
With laundry I have only
seen things lost
except for the one time
I saw money fall out of the
washer
To get there its lost somewhere
which I happily never find out
Like when I put on an oxygen mask
somewhere I'm off of CO2 mask
It figures
it always does
its drawstring of my track pants
the ones I'm using as a
lean against the cold wall
Writing
The Russian doll by Jane Shore. I wonder if it is after a specific poem by Elder Olson.
The Russian dolls that I know are standalone. Inflated. Much like dibble toys. The biggest is as much as a kid. The dolls were stood outside the general store. So much of the internal conversation of Jane shore's poem is missed in these dolls still they could still hold onto whatever conversations they can carry looking at each other all the time.
I used to think that if you had too much time then you wouldnt have too many things to write. Now I see that as you write, associations lead you to so much more, that mere writing down what you want to write about might not capture all of it. Those amorphous thoughts which jane shore put into words very well in her poem.
The Russian dolls that I know are standalone. Inflated. Much like dibble toys. The biggest is as much as a kid. The dolls were stood outside the general store. So much of the internal conversation of Jane shore's poem is missed in these dolls still they could still hold onto whatever conversations they can carry looking at each other all the time.
I used to think that if you had too much time then you wouldnt have too many things to write. Now I see that as you write, associations lead you to so much more, that mere writing down what you want to write about might not capture all of it. Those amorphous thoughts which jane shore put into words very well in her poem.
phone poetry
Poets and writers and many other magazines have epistolary poems and postcard poems as prompts for writing poetry.
All the right things to say
Congratulations
On your motherhood
You must be waiting for your husband
She must be missing her father
In phone poetry, who do the words belong to? The one who said it or the one who they are meant for. Now I get what all those writers mean by once your work is out there in the world, its no longer yours anymore.
I think we can read all poems as a one side phone conversation and write up replies to complete it. Much like a response to the poem that another Poets & writer exercise calls for but in the same medium. Like a response to each line instead of the whole poem at once.
For our digital times, text poetry and twitter poetry are welcome. Twitter poetry seems like the 'Roger .. Over' kinds.
All the right things to say
Congratulations
On your motherhood
You must be waiting for your husband
She must be missing her father
In phone poetry, who do the words belong to? The one who said it or the one who they are meant for. Now I get what all those writers mean by once your work is out there in the world, its no longer yours anymore.
I think we can read all poems as a one side phone conversation and write up replies to complete it. Much like a response to the poem that another Poets & writer exercise calls for but in the same medium. Like a response to each line instead of the whole poem at once.
For our digital times, text poetry and twitter poetry are welcome. Twitter poetry seems like the 'Roger .. Over' kinds.
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