Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Interview

Thank you Beth, for the prompt,” avatar”.
The Sanskrit noun avatāra is derived from the verbal root tṝ "to cross over", joined with the prefix ava "off , away , down".


Interview

“If you could be any animal
what would you be?”

I thought about it
carefully considered
my options
I knew
the right answer
knew
what she wanted me to say:
"lion"

knew
if I said lion
it would be a shoe in

I spoke plainly
through my throat:
”dolphin"

she looked injured,
why a dolphin?

water,
I said.

Monday, March 15, 2010

Murmur

Murmur

speckled trout murmur
below blue ice
still in a dream

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Comma

Thanks to Nathalie for this week's prompt, hesitation.


"Three things are good in little measure and evil in large: yeast, salt and hesitation."
-The Talmud

"I use my single windup, my double windup, my triple windup, my hesitation windup, my no windup. I also use my step-n-pitch-it, my submariner, my sidearmer, and my bat dodger. Man's got to do what he's got to do."
-Satchel Paige




Commas

she woke
to find herself
covered in commas

she felt accidental:
a prairie ransomed
to ameloid sprawl

reasonable doubts
sprouted
like freckles
on a fair day

a mother’s regular
hemstitch
whined

the little red book
preached
purity

she remembered
the night
she threw the moon out
she shook
like a cat
loose of bother


a laugh
took hold
in her withers
shaking like a sheet,
a freshly laundered sheet.