tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33990963631936553622024-03-13T06:39:29.861-07:00Ukulele FeedbackBlue Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02026108360404336508noreply@blogger.comBlogger1550125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399096363193655362.post-82491755845481334632020-08-31T16:56:00.006-07:002021-04-02T14:44:54.019-07:00Torching the Pier by Kevin Opstedal<p><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1331" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z6tuAtFc66M/X02Mg3n7l0I/AAAAAAAABk4/03pMHcb35k0gFEY94_pPBruDzguxIoCMgCLcBGAsYHQ/w208-h320/Torching_the_Pier.jpg" width="208" /> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Just released from Blazing Stadium, this small 27 page chapbook/pamphlet carries 15 of my poems. This is a <i>very</i> limited edition, so if you'd like to purchase a copy visit <a href="https://blazingstadium.com/books">https://blazingstadium.com/books</a>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Blue Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02026108360404336508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399096363193655362.post-18394066706885684942020-08-03T12:56:00.004-07:002020-08-03T12:56:56.616-07:00East of the Sun (& West of the Moon)<font face="georgia">Summertime blues</font><div><font face="georgia">my speciality</font></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font face="georgia"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>pasted to a dogeared page of the</font></div><div><font face="georgia"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>heavy gray sky</font></div><div><font face="georgia"> w/silver mists retrieved</font></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font face="georgia">but who'll push the buttons?</font></div><div><font face="georgia">who'll spin the dial?</font></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font face="georgia"> - I fear for this metaphor -</font></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font face="georgia">Ono no Komachi</font></div><div><font face="georgia">Joanne Kyger</font></div><div><font face="georgia">Art Pepper & the Hollywood All-Stars</font></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font face="georgia"> summoned out of chaos</font></div><div><font face="georgia"> as one would summon their familiars</font></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div>Blue Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02026108360404336508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399096363193655362.post-50919662043173516982020-07-01T06:04:00.000-07:002020-07-01T06:04:22.128-07:00Spin Cycle<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Anyone's permutations anymore than my own</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">sleepwalking from Tehuantepec to Kubla Khan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">loaded to the springs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Early morning spillover of pearl gray light</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">wind cold off the water</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">too greasy to surf Purgatory Point</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The specific gravity of a rainy day</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> charting alternate routes to nowhere</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Practicing the old soft shoe as they used to say</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">old wounds, telepathic radio & paraphernalias</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">a kool-aid bubble w/a sea scum shine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">& all of it riding off into the sunset</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">behind the wheel of an El Ranchero hand grenade</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">as the credits roll up into the bruised pink haze</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">drenched in gasoline</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">bottled at the source</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>Blue Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02026108360404336508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399096363193655362.post-53858362831755466702020-06-08T04:59:00.000-07:002020-06-08T04:59:00.179-07:00Bending Like a Spoon to the Flame<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On an empty beach</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">just me & the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">bitter angels of my nature</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it could have been anywhere</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">after sunset</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but w/pale neon blinking in the mist</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so that it was like Chinatown </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">under water . . .</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I have stood on the street there w/my</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> chow mein & notebook</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> as the weather swept up the coast</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> from the south</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> driven it would seem</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> by sea creatures</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> who resemble <i>devatas</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> from an ancient sandstone carving</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but w/seaweed in their hair</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> & wearing damp sunglasses</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to hide their incendiary eyes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> from those like me who would</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">like to know</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>Blue Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02026108360404336508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399096363193655362.post-25552611753922913842020-06-06T04:52:00.000-07:002020-06-06T04:52:24.154-07:00Saturday Matinee<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's springtime now that it's almost summer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">not like but is</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">as a family of trolls</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">tumbling out of a dirty green Dodge van</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">folded into the sound of traffic on Mission Street</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">rush hour</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The bright sunlight takes me somewhere else entirely</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">goatfoot tapdance across the sand gravel path lined with</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">native grasses, lupin, young thistle</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> to think that the roots bite down</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">in this hard & rocky soil</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> & outrageous blossoms burst</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">forth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> the birds & bees & cigarette trees</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> harmonic diversions</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Leaf & petal slice a corner off the sky</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> a small blue corner</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">pick it up & take it home</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> another piece of the puzzle</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>Blue Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02026108360404336508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399096363193655362.post-19218323560846025822020-06-01T04:44:00.003-07:002020-08-03T13:03:17.557-07:00Some Assembly Required<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The music was piped in on a</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">ship-to-shore set-up</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">bouncing off a satellite east of Arcturus</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">sending ripples across the estuary</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">w/sea mist & pearls dipped in sunset</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">blue yellow red green & turquoise</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">w/chrome inlay</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">repeated in the windswept cypress & wet sand</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">when the tide is almost full</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">& as if to resume the distances</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the weight of California leans on Mexico</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">just a shade past suspicion</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">downloading the Dance of the Mollusk & other</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">psychic disorders on a scale of 1 to 10</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">last seen carrying a slingshot & a blanket</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">skip the gutter / shoot the breeze</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">A voice from on high</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">but not high enough</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span>Blue Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02026108360404336508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399096363193655362.post-15029512074918947152020-05-31T15:54:00.000-07:002020-06-01T13:08:22.841-07:00Echo Beach<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dealing in the sub-rhyme</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(Word is saving "The Poems"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">i.e., the white noise of dueling tambourines</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the kelp grove)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">around here this is considered a "lifestyle"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now I am free to be driven to distraction</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in a gleaming sky blue Cadillac El Dorado</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Clouds sliding past ruin'd Ilion</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">somewhere in Baja California</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">around the corner from Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dog Days (underlined in red) & it's not even June</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">banging around in the rearview mirror</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">w/a measly palm tree or two</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">& those subliminal green waves</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">endlessly rocking</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>Blue Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02026108360404336508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399096363193655362.post-74713456313398236982020-05-14T05:00:00.003-07:002020-05-14T05:08:02.706-07:00Circling the Drain<font face="georgia">One Mississippi, two Mississippi, three...</font><div><font face="georgia">a timing device</font></div><div><font face="georgia">(leading w/the middle finger)</font></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font face="georgia">The difference is different</font></div><div><font face="georgia">trembling as it would be a certainty</font></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font face="georgia">Those colored squares & the woman that</font></div><div><font face="georgia">holds them there</font></div><div><font face="georgia"> in the mind</font></div><div><font face="georgia">patterns built of patterns</font></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font face="georgia">The real biography could be found in the footnotes</font></div><div><font face="georgia">"machetes on the mezzanine" comes to mind</font></div><div><font face="georgia">pursuant to & not for nothing</font></div><div><font face="georgia">exploring every vacant lot from Santa Cruz to Eleusis</font></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font face="georgia">I once had thought I'd live out my</font></div><div><font face="georgia">final days in Big Sur or Bolinas</font></div><div><font face="georgia">a one-room shack filled w/books, empty</font></div><div><font face="georgia">picture frames & a wood stove</font></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font face="georgia">but my final days are now</font></div><div><font face="georgia">& always have been</font></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div>Blue Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02026108360404336508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399096363193655362.post-74784925774352129882020-05-09T05:47:00.000-07:002020-05-09T05:47:08.196-07:00The Next to Last Tango<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The first part opens w/a simple melodic phrase</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">establishing a theme elaborated upon in the second section</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the third part is a duet for clarinet & fuel pump</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">while the fourth & final section </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">takes us on a detour thru a wind tunnel</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">begging indulgence</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> without vows or refuge</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> LOVE TRIUMPHANT</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> a roll of the dice</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> such as would secretly engender</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> a tender sense of desperation</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>H e a r t & S o u l</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A silver spoon (blue w/rust), dengue fever, & the legendary</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">paradox that left you untethered somewhere in the vicinity of the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">lesser Antilles</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> clouds rearranging themselves </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> in anticipation of the next million dollar idea</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> dimension evoking divinity in hindsight</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> heaven for those who watusi in their sleep</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">& even if my heart's a boomerang w/yr name on it</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm pledging my time & fancy footwork</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>Blue Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02026108360404336508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399096363193655362.post-89231074229946158522020-05-01T05:57:00.000-07:002020-05-01T05:57:02.766-07:00We Were There (Weren't We?)<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The notion of knowing. Anything.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Non-negotiable. When the safest thing to do is hide.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Just in case separation was a cure.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm just saying.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <i> The clouds broke apart & the sunlight</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i> tilted her halo at a rakish angle.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i> She had taught the fish how to swim.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i> Grey whales & the odd crustacean in attendance.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was probably riding in Bob Witte's Datsun at the time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> A case of Pabst Blue Ribbon in the back seat.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> A bag of Thai sticks in the front.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I kept my eyes behind dark glasses</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">in the vague hope that it would induce invisibility.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It seemed logical to assume</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> but logic often eluded me then</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">as it does now</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> which is how I got here.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>Blue Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02026108360404336508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399096363193655362.post-26225135219505038232020-04-27T13:17:00.000-07:002020-04-27T13:17:20.217-07:00Latitude & Lostitude<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Trending</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A dragonfly drops into the yard</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">lands on the rock rose</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">asks "Did you hear about Lewis?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Vestiges</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"All rivers flow into the sea" etc, but</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">then what?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> An exercise in planned obsolescence</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">falling thru the trap-door in a shopping cart</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">abandoned beneath the 4th Street Bridge</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Summer Breeze</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Foxtail grass, the songs of dead poets,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">& that Chevy El Camino wrapped in caution tape</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">parked outside the bait shop</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">a type of currency</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> snare drums & Ave Marias</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> except she meant every word of it</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">& like crossing the bridge between</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">summer rain & revelation</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"There's more where that came from"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">where it went</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The clouds over Four Mile Beach</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">resembling ancient Chinese poems</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> & why not the singing telegram</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> & whatever was spray-painted</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> on the overpass</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>Blue Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02026108360404336508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399096363193655362.post-63129659025242286522020-04-09T15:18:00.000-07:002020-04-09T15:18:28.977-07:00The Square Root of Ground Zero<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the transparent & possibly forgettable confluence of myth & biology, a quick spark of light or recognition, after the long swim & the engendering, determines the color of yr eyes. The 3 sisters in their dirty white robes kneeling on a blanket throwing dice & keeping score. The numbers written in indelible ink. The construction proceeds according to preset measures along w/the selected variables. Limited options to be sure. An architecture built from the inside out. Proteins & carbons & lots of water. The wiring can be a little tricky.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Images of an ancient Hawaiian cave burial. Dead body placed in a fetal position. Many Native American tribes buried their dead in a fetal position as well, sometimes in a basket or clay urn. We'd like to believe there's a meaning to it all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Bathed in a golden light he crouches & waits & eventually emerges on a rainy night in February 1956. The place is Saint John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California. Saint John's Hospital was founded by the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth in 1942. Saint John the Apostle was the author of the Gospel of John, the 3 Epistles of John, and the Book of Revelations. He was the only one of the 12 Apostles to die of natural causes. Santa Monica was named after Saint Monica, the mother of Saint Augustine. She is the patron of difficult marriages, disappointing children, victims of adultery, & the sacred conversion of relatives.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>Blue Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02026108360404336508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399096363193655362.post-36215217088442155782020-04-01T05:01:00.000-07:002020-04-01T05:01:06.261-07:00The Orient Express<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Stagelit streets descending</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">as in Tangier</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">or Todos Santos</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">or an Albuquerque by the sea</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">w/Jesus Christ</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(or is it Keith Richards?)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">riding across the beach on a crocodile</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The salt spray</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the stuttering neon archives</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">& the slow fade</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">bending harmonicas in the dark</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">concert hall of the heart</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Even if the dance goes sideways</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">we know the spirit moves</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">has moved</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">is moving</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">though not perhaps as we had at first imagined</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I no longer recognize the face that</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">stares back at me from the bathroom mirror</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">but that's okay</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">it's clear that whoever he is he</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">doesn't recognize me either</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">though we're both wearing the same Yater t-shirt</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">w/the blood stain on the left shoulder</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">as in the Palatine Anthology</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Meanwhile the marine layer flattens out</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">as light & shadow trade places</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">excavating the protocols of redemption</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">dropping leadweight epiphanies in the green room</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">& I'm digging my way to China</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">w/a plastic spoon</span>Blue Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02026108360404336508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399096363193655362.post-88016249875273169362020-03-18T07:10:00.000-07:002020-03-18T07:06:17.053-07:00Shelter in Place<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Trying to get as far away</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from myself as possible</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">without leaving the room</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">counter intuitive measures</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">& the bongo relevance</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">if only to put the proper</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">looney tunes spin on it</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Polite Society:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They bare their teeth to show they're friendly</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nothing to lose & nowhere to go</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but I can't be the last to leave</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That doesn't explain anything I hope</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The itch in yr sneakers too</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Beneath the Panamanian moon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>Blue Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02026108360404336508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399096363193655362.post-39862678751726644862020-03-04T05:48:00.000-08:002020-03-04T05:48:00.924-08:00ACE of TENTACLES by Kevin Opstedal<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The original ACE of TENTACLES manuscript was/is 130+ pages, which I ruthlessly cut down to 22 pages for this chapbook. Nevertheless, it still has a kick to it. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Published by Sunnylyn Thibodeaux & Micah Ballard's Auguste Press. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">or right here not listening</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">but hearing it all tumble</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">in one ear & out the other</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">An unobstructed view</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Maybe it was the way the pavement laid down at her feet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the sky not quite as dark as her eyes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">& the wind if there was any wind must've been cold</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Wake up to find that I'm starring in this movie</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">a mistake down at central casting</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">a movie I must watch thru binoculars from the balcony section</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What would I remember? The plot twisting</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">as the music swells, subsides,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">dissipates into tinkle bells, sledge-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">hammers, bird voices</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That kind of carelessness</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> it isn't so easy to master</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When I get to Mexico all her broken vows will be mine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">our children will understand then & the rain will</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">step into the street & survey the damage</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">w/eyes of translucent silver</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">rhyming with the allegorical sunglasses</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">which may be the point of it all</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">pointing due north</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">An ounce of nightingale</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">versus banjos in the eucalyptus</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">which I took to mean the prototype</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">& to lay it down then </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> w/a little 2/4 oom-pah beat</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> spinning the wheel of outrageous fortune</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> like taco Tuesday on a Wednesday</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">but knocked from the karmic loop</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> whatever is going to happen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> like it already has</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">& all of it leaning up against yr mind</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">like a bulldozer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">leaning against a feather of mist</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>Blue Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02026108360404336508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399096363193655362.post-49944035156473656672020-01-05T06:42:00.006-08:002020-01-12T08:55:08.499-08:00HOW I MET JACK BUSWOLD by Stephen Emerson<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here's what the poet Ed Dorn wrote about Stephen Emerson's short stories in 1982: "Steve Emerson notices everything. At the center of his style there is always some detail which, when uncurled, reveals the story in its veins." That statement holds true with Emerson's latest, his first book in over 30 years, <i>How I Met Jack Buswold</i>, a new selection of nine short stories now available from Blue Press. Get yourself a copy today!</span><br />
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Blue Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02026108360404336508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399096363193655362.post-17800981188229927432020-01-01T01:41:00.000-08:002020-01-01T01:41:00.347-08:00They Call Me Pagliacci but My Real Name is Mr. Earle<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All that I no longer am</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">yet carry w/me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">an inheritance left unclaimed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> half buried in the sand</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> half washed away in the tide</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">w/I suppose Oceanities of misappropriated</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> albatross-befeathered</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> shadow wings on the waves?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Only the tender caress of oblivion</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> can take the guesswork out of mercy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> is another way I could have said it</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">but if I was talking to you I</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">wouldn't have to say a thing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>Blue Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02026108360404336508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399096363193655362.post-78385609127285343572019-12-19T05:49:00.000-08:002019-12-19T05:49:08.915-08:00After the Gold Rush<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The sky its azure reticence</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(azure residence?)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">between rainstorms</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Dark Rose in her bed of thorns</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">pinwheels, springs, pendulum ghost shapes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">& in the space between molecules</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a tractor gracefully rusting</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as I said to the lady behind the counter at the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">gas station mini-mart</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Doris</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> a name that means "gift" in Greek</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> in mythology a sea nymph</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> geographically a mountainous region north of</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> the Gulf of Corinth home to the Dorians</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I said "Descriptions should always be misleading"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Whatever" she said</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> In French "d'or" means "gold"</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>Blue Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02026108360404336508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399096363193655362.post-17059292834353329032019-12-01T06:15:00.001-08:002019-12-01T06:15:45.891-08:00Telemetry<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There's no place I'd rather be than</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">half way there</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> walking like a Peloponnesian</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> as though it might cure the common yearning</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> love leaves in its wake</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The audio clip ticking like a waterproof watch</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> from the T'ang Dynasty</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> A sun tan neatly folded over the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> balcony of my heart</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">& sure you can pretend that you see your reflection</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the polished blue mirror of the sky but</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it isn't yours</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">until you give it away</span><br />
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