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DIY Dream Poem

2009-11-11T09:49:45-06:00

Here's a fun sounding exercise from Read Write Poem. It's by Bruce Covey. Let us know if you give it a try!

X=13, Y=21

Where there are coins, there’s matter,
A narrow strip of over 700,000 in this province.
Today the birds are green and the roofs are woven
Of string. You pick the spot, please:
Its zoo built with moment upon moment of cola fountains
(although the one at the center sprouts ginger ale), or
The checkerboard landscape with a single checker making me sweat.
A nest of spiders spins its lines of code — where something is and isn’t —
underneath the netting, the surface para-graph,
A wooden barrel in front of every scrap.
Half kangaroo and half gorilla would be very versatile,
Especially here, where rain has turned the road to muck.
Next to the thicket and upon a rock, my translator
Teaches card tricks to all the babies, changes their diapers.
Later we played an asphalt fight until the killer bees,
Digitally enhanced, came — an extensive natural race
That brings the good in night, its tropical players.

by Bruce Covey

Postcard for Bee #14

2009-11-11T09:48:35-06:00

Postcard for Bee #14
Originally uploaded by dumpsterdiversanonymous

I'm pairing this with Bruce Covey's poem (above).

A Walk into Autumn

2009-11-10T22:22:33-06:00

Autumn walk
Originally uploaded by Sameli

Happy WarmCool Moleskine Monday

2009-11-08T19:50:15-06:00

WarmCool
Originally uploaded by A-dab-adu

City Beach by Dora Malech

2009-11-06T10:41:30-06:00

Your mouth said so long from so long said

high tide's not a timid girl is what is missing.

I could clap flippers skip the asterisk

and hop a plane. Some mouths say nets and not

nets to trust around anyone's daughter.

Ask what's on tap in the shape of a ship.

A mouth in a bottle is no kiss sealed

to sender. In it remainders and no answer

and a thin relic at that. Any ocean

is old enough to know better. Your mouth

to mine is departures arrivals a flawless ledger.

Some mouths say swim at your own risk say salt

again is stingy dinner. My mouth remains

a faithful measure. Some mouths say shark

in shallow water but I suspect the waves

wash in on empty and someone had to

truck in all this sand from elsewhere here.

by Dora Malech

published in Poetry London

and also by Verse Daily®

photo by bskar via flickr

Oil Fields and Open Spirals by Mona Marshall

2009-11-03T06:49:00-06:00

Visions of weathering the Texas gulf coast abound in this artwork, and the encaustic medium adds extra drama. Check out more amazing new work by Mona Marshall here.

Be Your Own Superhero

2009-11-02T15:04:13-06:00

It's Moleskine Monday, and somebody's got to take care of things.

[art by Leo Uehara via flickr]
Originally uploaded to flickr by Leo Uehara

The Beautiful New of James Turrell

2009-10-30T06:26:00-05:00

An exhibit of James Turrell's work has opened at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg Museum in Germany.

Emoticon by Eddo Stern

2009-10-29T08:55:00-05:00

If this picture doesn't spook you enough, click on it and check out the video by Eddo Stern

[via Rhizome]

Two Yellow Beach Huts by Andy Bell

2009-10-28T06:38:00-05:00

More wonderfulness by British photographer Andy Bell. Check out his photoblog, Deceptive Media, if you want to get happy.

Troubleton by Sarah Guess

2009-10-27T06:41:00-05:00

There's a great new issue of Sixth Finch up this month. Here's an amazing poem by Carol Guess:

Rain Rain Rain Rain Rain

2009-10-26T12:31:50-05:00

rain rain rain
Originally uploaded by Idle Type

Today in Houston

Absence Makes the Heart

2009-10-24T10:12:05-05:00

Have you seen the wondrous new issue of Absent Magazine? Exemplifying said awesomeness, I've re-posted "love Poem" by Lauren Ireland. Also represented in this issue are:

Dan Boehl
Karen Carcia
Darcie Dennigan
Jessica Fjeld
Andrea Henchey
Matthew Klane
Reb Livingston
Marc McKee
Daniela Olszewska
Matt Shears
Kim Gek Lin Short

Love Poem

I am not ready for dark dear friend I shout and we walk

underground a tiny city roars over a tiny city below and

it is hard to say this I am dead tonight I had been practicing

walking light and slow through a museum the imaginary

groves and turning to love you rough like a clever boy but I

am dead tonight friend O kill me I am dead

by Lauren Ireland

photo by Michel on flickr

EOAGH 5: The Mega Mega Edition

2009-10-22T06:37:00-05:00

Another amazing edition of EOAGH has been posted, and it's huge and, as I said, amazing! Here's one by the poet Robyn Art. Please hustle on over and see the rest!

[Theories of Colony Collapse Disorder]

1.Because the river is full of holes. 2. Because his hands. 3. Because those were
the pearls that were his eyes. 4. Larceny. 5. Infamy. ^. The churlish disquietude
of the Tastee-Freeze truck. 7. Because of spinning it old school. 8. The same wack
shit. 9. Because lengthening shadows, doing their crepuscular dance. 10. Because
“crepuscular.” 11. High school (bad hair, misery.) 12. The very idea of him. 13.
Recurring dream #1: the house by the water (lake? ocean?) 14. Because the death
of analog. 15. Because the death of the push-mower. 16. Because death 17. in a kinda
general, all-around way. 18. Three weeks late. 19. Rescinded handshake. 20. Fantasy
baseball. 21. Collision of cosmic spheres, a dissonant humming. 22. Blood in the
drain. 23. Recurring dream #2: the Forbidden Room (blood-red drapes, a la The Shining?)
24. Because the day job 25. can’t swing the high overhead. 26. Sleeplessness. 27.
Her bituminous eyes. 28. Because Father Time, one seriously-underhanded motherfucker.
29. Broken strap. 30. Severed toe buried in sand. 31. Because he wanted to. 32.
Because he wanted. 33. Because he. 34. Flooded engine. 35. Invention of cheese-in-a-can.
36. Because genial affection, furious loathing 37. and tenderness. 38. Exhibit A:
syringe, rubber hose, earmarked copy of “Explore St. Louis!” 39. The way you heard
it. 40. Because the tongues of a thousand bedraggled and timorous mortals. 41. Because
rain. 42. Winter: a single thread, unraveling. 43. Better get. 44. Better get yo’
hustle on.

by Robyn Art

published by EOAGH

Which Watch Which Watch

2009-10-21T06:43:00-05:00

I read this post about the newest in watch design on Design Boom. This one is called Sol by Shin Azumi. You can read about an experiment called untrod:

untrod is a project which collaborates with international designers on various project themes - the first theme is 'watch'. designers have been asked to investigate the possibility of bringing new meanings to the conventional form of a watch. these are the initial design concepts, so only renderings are available for some pieces.

This one has the basic elements of the wrist watch as we know it. Some are much further from the norm. For the complete story, click here.