Monday, April 9, 2012

Double talk. Is poetry aswim in double talk?

Aswim being the case in point. Perhaps, double-talk is two reading the same poem at the same time. Language, after all, is the speech of tongues.


There was a time when you thought a thistle, barbaric. How you gravitate toward artichokes. Steamed and sometimes chilled. Always pulled through teeth. Spring is aswimming in green.

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  1. Brazen 10

    sun-blanched almonds
    fuming along the opera buff's hat

    and squares not the same as circles
    especially in the ditch

    memory recoils when recorded

    someone's cadence
    ballooning in the pool

    what matters to the psyche
    just a nutmeat salesman's dream

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