Namaste!

Namaste!
August 24, 2010 * Aguas Calientes * Machu Picchu * Peru * South America

poetry and the art of recklessness

"how sad it is when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self-defence to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in things attainable that it may not have leisure to go mad
after things that are not." *john keats, july 1818
let us riot in the unattainable!
poetry is when the animal bursts forth, inflamed.

*and dean young is spectacular to have written this essay in poets&writers magazine






Tuesday, December 22, 2009

for fun-zies

just for fun-zies, here are some random old poems.
no need to respond if they don't make sense.
that's the point of fun-zies...for fun-zies!


fruitless Cali sand,
silent under snow
and that water must
be fucking cold...
i moon walk on the
untouched ice dunes and
even inflate my belly so as
to honor the extra room
in my moon suit.

i make a sexy astronaut...

but i think i'd miss
the sun,
and the sand-
you can't construct moon dust castles-

i mean, that's just fucking ridiculous.
*february 2007


roasted cauliflower soup gently poured over chipped chunks of gorgonzola
newly wedded to the hand-massaged baby spinach and arugula dish,
dressed with rosemary-honey and plucked pomegranate --
seeds from the first newborn sunflower that christ held between his teeth on the first sunrise of the first celebration of what we now call easter and i can't wait any longer to see you choke to your environmentally sound death despite the logic that you, too, breathe an animals' breath.
panting heavy heated from your spine as the moon licks your sacrum
you ate this earth growling. . .
remember. . . ?
primal, ripping roots, and dripping fruits, and food fighting with
brothers and sisters of the same pack.
so, became this fleshy earths' first carnivore who bit and cackled down the blood?

so, who is the wolf. . . ?

not that it matters. . .
with chops like that.
*february 2007
*i used to be a hostess at the Fiddlehead Cafe.
the menu is...specific.
the clientele is...specific, as well.


tangerine and crushed freesia, this city reeks of women and their oils.
let your hair down, girl! shake out the pony kinks
and loft that Pantene Pro-V to the east,
to the water,
to the maintainence men and coffee house hustlers.
the ladies sure do spritz heavily in the heavenly AM yawns,
too sleepy too hungover from mojito mints and second city sours
with lemony twists and happy hours
purchased by the bosses of bosses and the ass in the office who can only be civil when he's downed two double shots of jagermeister,
all that deer blood to settle his trigger before speaking kindly to his fellow dollar earners.
he hits on the chicky-dee, the fresh one, who got hired 3 weeks ago, who is the friend of the office fatty who brings in doughnuts about twice a month, even though she knows
everyone is on a fucking diet.
but the gesture is nice.
*don't have it recorded what year

namaste, m*tha f*ckas. now, go write a poem.

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