A poem of impressions combining Yoko Ono’s Twitter feed, a Brothers Quay short film, a random phrase, and a made-up word. Yoko wrote the words they appeared on the screen at the same moment they entered my thoughts The coincidence was a coincidence A milky fragrance skipped along the atmosphere’s surface The patterns of the [...]
Tag: September 2017
Dear Saturday…
Dear Saturday, The phrase ‘right-thinking people’ comes to mind. Unfortunately, they don’t want the job anymore. Love, Kevin (30 September 2017)
Kiss like ether (a poem)
Title borrowed from the song of the same name by Claudia Brücken. The leaf’s shadow falls upon my window and settles her kiss like ether has left me groggy unsure of this scene The breakdown reduces the whole to its parts while clarifying nothing that could be of use her kiss like ether complicates matters [...]
A better poetry flashback, c. 1980/81
I was capable of writing decent poems back when I was in high school. There is one I would love to post, but I don’t have a copy of it anymore. But I do still remember this one—which may or may not have been published in the University of Washington’s student newspaper, The Daily (I no longer [...]
A bad-poetry flashback, c. 1980
To give you some idea of how far I have come, here are a couple of bad poems I contributed to my high school’s yearbook my senior year. The theme of that year’s book was ‘Records of the Past’—because no one had ever thought of that one before, right? Read at your peril… polyvinyl dreams [...]
Dear Friday…
Dear Friday, Rain? Nobody told me about this… Love, Kevin (29 September 2017)
D(e)focus (a poem)
Bonus round… Doubt is a clingy beast the unwanted houseguest of my psyche leaving crumbs wherever it goes but never leaving the house Getting it drunk doesn’t help— that makes it stronger and louder and more persistent and prone to sitting at the computer all night playing sad songs on YouTube burying its head in [...]
An accounting (a poem)
Happy National Poetry Day! This is not: a Grand Statement a manifesto a declaration of intent a description of a universal condition an assertion of guilt or innocence a bulletin, note, or memo a distracted doodle drawn while waiting for something to happen a stray thought in between other stray thoughts a momentary impulse [...]
Dear Thursday…
Dear Thursday, When the day starts off with a trip to the grocery store to get that one ingredient you forgot to buy last night… Love, Kevin (28 September 2017)
Don’t talk to me about love (a poem)
The new TV season has started, and already somebody said it—so… Anyone who brings out that tired old trope about how it is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all is full of shit Nobody comes out of that feeling better about anything unless it was a horrible experience [...]
