Inane anecdotes
maybe a turn of phrase
thought up in the shower
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Lost, magnetic money clip--
I saw it after several months
as I stooped to fill an air mattress--
clinging to the metal side of
glass top desk
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Rosemary and thyme
shampoo
a professor's dinner
or popular song?
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Me
Little golden rooster,
tell me your secret
The Rooster
Lift up with your cry
the tombstone of night
[FGL]
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One day on the keyboard
my right hand knew what to do
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To be professor
I don't need biceps
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Two accidents happened at once:
I melted a spatula in the frying pan
I wrote a new song
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There is a season for being pedantic
but this is not it
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Walking out into the street two middle-aged Spanish novelists recall the elegant women of their youth,
movie stars, their mothers and aunts photographed as movie stars
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I want to play jazz piano and have a girlfriend who wears lipstick.
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I relearn the bass line to "Bemsha Swing"
My stubby fingers play fast scales
I buy a notebook for these poems but write them down in the computer instead
Prednisone makes the world seem unreal
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among
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Two sprigs of rosemary plucked
from the sidewalk, squeezed
between fingers. Its smell.
It lasts still, I say every time.
[Miguel Casado]
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Vile coffee shop smooth jazz mix
interrupted by Bach's cello
or Monk!
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Toast:
To bad translations of Rilke that made us fall in love with Rilke
To fountain pens I don't know how to use and soap that slips through my fingers
Clumsy fingers that nevertheless manage to fold the omelette
And figure out all by themselves the fingering to a scale
To amateur talent shows with their unexceptional beauties
To the twenty-thousand breaths of a day and other pointless calculations
Let us not redact or renege, refute or renegotiate
The warmth of April evenings or the taste of a pear
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Feiglure
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Anxiety, old friend,
feel free to come and go, but not to stay
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