it was a dream
Lucille Cliftonin which my greater self ( Read more... )

Flight
James Tate

Like a glum cricket
the refrigerator is singing
and just as I am convinced

that it is the only noise
in the building, a pot falls
in 2B. The neighbors on

both sides of me suddenly
realize that they have not
made love to their wives

since 1947. The racket
multiplies. The man downhall
is teaching his dog to fly.

The fish are disgusted
and beat ( Read more... )

And I wanna play hide and seek, give you my clothes, tell you I love your shoes, sit on the steps while you take a bath and massage your neck, and kiss your face, and hold your hand, and go for a walk. Not mind when you eat my food. Meet you at Rudy's and talk about the day, talk about your day. And laugh at your, paranoia. And give you tapes you ( Read more... )

Ginsberg
Julia VinogradNo blame. Anyone who wrote Howl and Kaddish ( Read more... )

I'm very unsettled by these LJ changes since the last time I posted. Unable to copy/paste anymore, LJ, are you serious ( Read more... )

I Saw A Bird Fly Away
Dar Williams

I asked the habitual partygoer just how high she thought she'd get,
And I asked the ethereal girls if they were floating yet

And so I asked the light of the day, what's this rush for heaven,
Then I saw a bird fly away, and I could not ask again.

The tabloid-tainted actress knows the myth of higher ground.
The ( Read more... )

The War On Love Song
A.L. KennedyYou shouldn't mind the way I watch you and the things you do ( Read more... )

Lovers: (Jaafar the Winged)
Khaled Mattawa

Heroic acts are their own rewards, otherwise
why do them? Now the huris come and go.
You can ask them for whatever you want here,
a girl who never loved you, a whore in Khyber
you'd heard about, but your faith denied.

Years later when she came before the prophet
declaring her allegiance, you could not stop
( Read more... )

Please Answer All Three Of The Following Essay Questions.
Jennifer Michael Hecht

I
What would it take to make you
what you truly want to be and why will no one
cooperate with you on these visions you have
of yourself, when it would be so easy for them
to finally acknowledge that you are the demon
ruler of this island world and that all we eat
here ( Read more... )

Linda Pastan - This Enchanted Forest

And after I cheated him,
I had to learn to live
with silence again, the way
astronauts must learn
to live in thinner air.
If only he’d come back,
I’d give him anything.