Category Archives: poetry

Tom Waits and Bukowski/ Nirvana

Waits’ voice and Bukowski’s words make poetry to the second power.

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A Short Note and Three Poems From My Journal on 2/1/14

2/1/14 I like the controlled, refined space of my work table when I write in my notebook. Scene Change My dreams have moved into a new house, with glass doors and religion, Fat babies scurry here and there happily unaware. … Continue reading

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Lena Dreams of the Wetlands

Lena hadn’t thought about manatees in several years, but that did not stop her from dreaming about them that night in July. The merganser is the kind of crested duck that will rip your heart out of your living body, and then … Continue reading

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Irrigation Canal Codex by Luis Alberto Urrea

Originally posted on synthetic zerØ:
Y los muchachos cling to the cantina’s jukebox heart, sing: we never go nowhere we never see nothing but work: these fingers bleed every daylong day, aching from la joda of the harvest– y la…

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Poetry as a Living Process

Nobody Knows Poetry Better Than You Don’t let anyone tell you what to write or not to write, or how to write it, unless it is what you need to make your writing more what you want it to be. … Continue reading

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