Showing posts with label dragnet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dragnet. Show all posts

Monday, March 12, 2012

international wom's day

are cheerleaders the new greek chorus? and why are women

so often relegated there. woms can affirm and support but what about

some goddesses with pompom flower power renouncing patriarchy:

each in her own words, the particular incantations and rhymes of

personal experience whittling her brilliance to catalytic chants

in dialects of polyrhythm like breathing not like war marches


once in the ear and heart now blossoming. because of her we're never the same


don't make the teachers be women droning at the front of the class, lucy


i am glad we know a different way that doesn't harm to move us along:

that's an ancient art, worth remembering, carried on

intergenerational matrilineal phoneless cords

via the walkie talkies of our core knowing,

outfurling spring blossoms that trill and blossom

in our own mouths and minds. we are always being

birthed and breathed by she we all gaia yes


Wednesday, February 29, 2012

air time

air time

“jack!”
“gotcha”
“sez who?”
“sez 7 up”
“ok jack”
“gotcha”
“again?”
“sure”
“ok jack”
“bring shoe in?”
“ok jack”
“slot 4”
“dang”
“yeah bang bang”
“ok jack”
“gotcha”
“don’t”
“won’t”
“ok jack”
“out”
“out”

13 every man becomes inelastic.


Monday, February 27, 2012

Prompt: Dragnet

Write a poem that might be heard over a police walkie-talkie. Find words with multiple meanings that wouldn't mind going out over a loud speaker. And/or, what is Lucy & Charlie Brown's teacher really saying? Play with distortion, echo, reverb, and send out a dragnet for a different kind of "open mic" poem ...


Tags: poem, dragnet, [poet's moniker]

Image credit: Cartoonist George Berlin, from his blog here