siduri’s tavern
Stephen Mitchell’s translation of Gilgamesh Still engaged with elements of Gilgamesh, his frantic, futile search Encounter with Siduri, the veiled tavern keeper at the edge of the world She climbs on her roof when...
Monthly Archive: March 2005
woven
“Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.” ~Walter Benjamin, critic and philosopher...
prosody’s handmaid
“The impulse that originally gave us the prose poem, in fact, beginning with Aloysius Bertrand and predecessors, then shaped by the surrealists and progeny, was the drive to disconnect from the rigidity of formal...
flauta prohibited
Haiku doesn’t come that easily for me – I come up with phrases that are three or four syllables, not five or seven I have trouble describing just what is there I’m always trying...
undeliverable 2001
…that story unraveled as tho it had been written down since Day 1 in the great dusty blue velvet Book of Joyluck. How did you know my birthday comes later this month and you...
poised or ? posied? poesied?
I don’t like poetry all type type type I appreciate the other components paper image putting it together If there is community or not I can stand it There comes a point when I...
one last
march – one last snowfall people trudging home in it’s celestial crystals