Read the poem “Light Emitting Diode” in the Yale Review. Brief sample:
We are abstractions, as if the infinite
Had to eat, hold down a day job, ride the bus.
Archive for May, 2009
“To give away, to keep, to give away…”
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009Wax and Glass
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009Epiphany recently published a poem of mine called Wax and Glass and another called Bundles of Bronze Sticks. That was in the last issue; see the current issue (Winter/Spring 2009) for some poems by the wonderful Martin Edmunds.
Wax and Glass, by the way, follows this pattern in stanza line length:
2
4 (2 x 2)
16 (4 x 4)
256 (16 x 16)
The squaring has to do with the subject of the poem.
Nightmaze
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009Read and experience Nightmaze (Flash required), an excerpt from my novel Incidents of Travel (not yet published).
Outside
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009Outside to let Mustafa eat a little grass and experience a few minutes of the warm, damp spring night. He is unusually still. The night is quiet. The small maple tree I planted earlier in the week is unsure of itself, with limp leaves. I hope it lives.
Idling, rambling, adventuring
Friday, May 1st, 2009“…it has been held a maxim, that success is most easily obtained by indirect and unperceived approaches….”
—Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 1
Tuesday, March 20, 1749
It’s easier if you arrive late, slip in through the crowd, and take a seat near the back.