Tuesday, April 9, 2013

First Quarter 2013, Selections #1 & 2



Full Moon over Smallville 4

SeƱor Dwight daily walks
Baby Super Girl,
who runs up and down the gentle slope,
his wingman.
Asked how he’s doing,
     

      “I’m blessed and cannot complain…
                  To know the story of the 47 Ronin is to know Japan….’”


Overhead
in branches high
I spy a bird’s nest
back-dropped by a vastness
and his fading echo


          “…and cannot complain…but I want to.”

--Richard Velez





winter night
red pepper, soup, wine and old friends
four ways to warmth
add laughter, fire, and sex
and when the cold winds howl
then wool and memory

--Patrick Mizelle


First Quarter 2013, Selections #3 & 4



gently
rolled
smoothed

held
rocked
drenched

turns
deep
pools

eddy
currents
downward

bubbling
into
light

--Joyce Pointe



grateful lover
your eyes
are just like
eyes
and your lips

--Brian Howlett

First Quarter, 2013, Fifth Selection



#92

"Tibetan sources tell VOA that another person has set himself on fire in western China as part of a protest against Chinese rule in ethnic Tibetan areas." --Voice of America News, December 3, 2012

Released from the cocoon of his face
rising butterflies of flame
unfold their wings
his eyes and lips have not
           yet been consumed
he seems engaged in his detachment
focused far beyond his immolation
but his robes are the color of a match head
           Tibetan red
           the match tip has just been struck
caught in the sight of a camera
and the combustion is still beginning.

--Wulf Losee