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Found Poem

What is with that crazy tropical-sounding bird in your back yard?

It messes with my naps.

i don't know. it seems angry at
the pig

and it has a slingshot

On Continuing

One day she realized she had
failed -- there was no use
worrying. She didn't know how
little they had advanced. For
some time their recent relations
had been neither this nor that.

He seemed to think she should
know something. She smiled faintly,
"before you go." That startled him.
Then there was a touch.

Swift strokes, then the thickening,
the stiffening, the electric rise
in her hand. On the brink of it,
he had to turn to watch, her
hand straight ahead across.

Finally he came, falling gently to
her naked. There was nothing they
could not see: the sky, the early
spring snow, the nature of continuing.

The Dangerous Point

This was where he crossed his fingers. "Today,"
he said as he anticipated her next move.

Make of it what you will.
"That was like some kind of book," she said
after they had passed the dangerous point.

A Cautionary Tale

I
should say
that I might
have known. I guess
those who know about pushing
higher into the ether should have
told me they had nothing for me.

The Mystery Dance

(for Declan Patrick MacManus)

She was ready. But he felt
Ignorance -- as if he had not
Heard of it before, but as for her:

She switched position and then
Pulled down her pants as if
Only to make him laugh
At what she was about to do.

He had never seen anything.

Answers Found In Dreams

He realized that he had forgotten
To ask about it. It had always been.

Gravitated away and would not kowtow.
Could possibly have before, but now.

Back in the chair, going down, slowly.
This way not only simple but also holy.

Can You Find Me?

Perspiration, it was all over.
Shadows, along the ridge.
The room, already to bed.
He sighed quietly, she had gone.

Swore to himself, as if to keep a chance
To be right, but uninterested in the trouble.

& In the Listening

(for John Ashbery)

Who's to say that theirs
Are less than ours. And

In the listening to or
In the talking with, or

Another, breathing hard.

Curiously, I signaled.
We were almost ready.

All right you know how it is.

I gave a reason to be. Can you?

His right hand quivered.

The Magical Scientist

To him it was an actual event that
He would be able to explain:

"It's bad luck to be too superstitious."

The day before when he was alive.
Everybody was. Then he was dead.

On the Assassination of John F. Kennedy

"The President's been shot," he said seriously.
We heard about it; it was what we talked about.
Brains and blood and bones in an upward curve
And his body across the woman: that's what we imagined
Though we'd be proven wrong by slow motion film
Showing his body just as if we were there with him.
But we didn't stop looking; we haven't stopped yet.

Astonishing Thing

They stripped -- worked rapidly
Turned from it, shirtless and sweating
All the same, when they reached
The verge, he hestitated then shrugged
Knelt down and stroked
"Like hours," he said
She came then -- she drew back
She did -- for a moment --
Began to see -- "You are an
Astonishing thing" -- he returned

Too Familiar

Cautiously, feeling tenderly with her
Hands. It was absurd.

Too familiar. Though it was
Too soon. There was still some...

Might be. She started to...
On her own. Deciding there that...

It happened to him. He turned back.
And wondered what wasn't and who had.

"Rrose Selavy" by Robert Desnos (Translation)

2. Rrose Selavy asks whether the Flowers of the Evil have changed her pud's manners: What does Maude think?

7. O my head, a fading mother-of-pearl star.

15. Lost on the endless sea, how will Rrose Selavy eat iron after eating her hands?

27. Time is a nimble eagle in a temple.

53. It is more important for a poet to be honest than to be polished.

-- Robert Desnos

[Note: I don't read or write French so I used an on-line translator to provide the literal translation and worked from there.

"27." is as translated by the fine folks at Babelfish.

In the original "2.", Desnos plays on the similarity of "phalle" and "Omphale," who enslaved Hercules and forced him to do "woman's work" such as spinning wool. The best I could do was to allude to Bea Arthur.

Click here to read all of Desnos' Rrose Selevay poems in French.]

Falling

Falling upon it, she left.

Not walking but falling.
He ran after her, and he fell.

He should not have run.

As If It Was

i was daydreaming when i pulled up
it was not generally considered
she had asked the question
the woman said, and the answer was
experience no matter what

we were all a little
we knew we should leave
driving slowly down
our energy spent. partly it was
youth, i suppose, and all
but however as if it was

to the last, we
raised our eyes and saw

this then, it is the

that which always
that had always been
never find her in this

never find her moved forward up
two steps forward one step back

The Wedding Dress

He had moved his mother's wedding dress
time after time, from apartment to
apartment, city to city

Friend to friend, lover to lover

Until we found him hanging
A white apparition in a candlelit room
Acrid myrrh failing to mask the death-stench of shit

"A fruit on a loop," the cop called him

[Note: Inspired by an anecdote CA Conrad told on the Poetry Foundation's "Off the Shelf" podcast.]

Resolve Steeled

For Dan and Pat

Even though he felt his chances small
He would resolve to steel his resolve
To ask the young woman out on a date
To share his love for dancing to jazz

Western Romance

Kiss (Tony)

Elizabeth Peyton, "Kiss (Tony)," 2000, lithograph.

"Impecunious" means you're one broke-ass nigga
Pissed-off that you can't afford to drink away the
Shitty feeling following an equally shitty
One-night stand with some dude who had you
Convinced that he could cop some excellent weed
That he said this trippy scene sorely needed
Looking back now so many details seem portentous
And you're going to have to emend the story if
You don't want it to end with you caterwauling
The veracity of your being one broke-ass nigga

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[Note: Written as a continuation of an exercise introduced at a workshop called "High Art/Low Language: Experiments in Poetic Style," conducted by Eileen G'Sell at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, where Elizabeth Peyton's exhibition "Ghost" is currently on display through April 18.

Participants in the workshop viewed the exhibit and picked two images to write poems about, choosing from five "high culture" and five "low culture" words that they had drawn from a hat. For this exercise, I used all of the words in the order I wrote them in my notebook.

My poem from the workshop is here.