See Mark Weiss' superb "Different Birds" (his
Australia poem) at Shearsman....

Candice

"I'm holding out for that teenage feeling"
(Neko Case)



--- kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> postable, sure. (:
> here's one from april 06.
> 
> appearance of a crow
> 
> what fine overlap, where
> a tall tree with its rigid
> twigs and sweeping limbs by
> the hundreds drapes over and
> in between
>     another¯growing
> 
> trip-twining half inside it like
> a symbol, an inked character
> designed by coincidence and
> by this garden in all its tumble
> and busy fitful peace¯a vast
> gate camouflaged in a row
> of gates with whole curtains
> of bellchains hung high up
> their wiring all exposed, against
> regulation¯
> 
> one sturdy branch, longer
> sturdier
> of darker wood than the others
> juts like driftwood out of a
> shipwreck's prow, the centre
> of an anomalous rule,
> immovable.
> 
> looking at a sparrow I think it
> large, to imagine it trembling in
> my closed hands, hardly contained
> and its heart bigger more frantic
> than its wings¯
> 
> then a monster shadow, a lithe
> lump hauls itself up from nowhere,
> 
> an immense black rat aesthetic
> and intelligent¯on the slim log-limb
> 
> it alights and it creaks, bending
> where this crow has warped its
> 
> immutable gravity humbly, without
> malice! in sorry defiance
> 
> it hops upwards to the next lookout
> post¯I imagine the energy it needs
> 
> to hover such a mass of feathers,
> feathers? again!
> 
> it makes a little leap and looks ready
> for flight, for a maimed mouthful,
> 
> decorating the heights
> like a terrible berry.
> 
> 
> 
> and here's another, from september 06:
> 
> early autumn flight gallery
> 
> I
> I have to bracket this
> vision of a grey
> steel rooftop
> with a staunch chimney
> & arid end-of-summer sky
>     before these crows learn to fly:
> 
> hopscotch & hover
> half drunk
> half a coal-
> shine eye wrapped
> crooked in black rain¯
> 
> wind-leaping leaves¯!
> they try
> after a haggle in queue
> to fly up
> but only jostle to
> snap back
> like flashes of anger,
> deadweights come alive
> for two seconds in joy¯
> 
> they weigh less
> than the dark humour
> of their competition.
> they have wings where mallets should be.
> 
> 
> II
> cigarettes are seashells on the street
> & here a black rain-
> slapped feather,
> leaking flat into asphalt
> like ink¯
> 
> some myth of a bird
> has left a memento of death
> 
> some wise tumor on an insect's legs
> has left a symbol to soak, & I can see one now:
> 
> how heavy his glide or gnash of a hop,
> & ancient his brand-new eyes.
> 
> 
> 
> as I read these I see an error or two I wouldn't
> commit anymore, but I also
> see that my pacing, the rhythm of activity, is much
> better than it has been
> in some of my latest poems. looking back can do a
> world of good.. thanks for
> nudging me Max!
> 
> KS
> 
> On 25/01/07, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, Kasper.
> >
> > Just the mix of responses I need to hear about.
> >
> > Crowded field, bird poems!
> >
> > I'd like to read some of yours...postable here?
> >
> > best from Max
> >
> > Quoting kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]>:
> >
> > > "having tired on some long eccentric flight"
> > >
> > > "Also known to catch, drown,
> > > and swallow seagulls, beak first."
> > >
> > > best bits right thar.
> > > narrationally this is really quite boring.
> devoid of a sense of action,
> > > which might jazz this up just enough to nudge it
> out of mediocre-dom.
> > > but always nice to read about birds, or people
> wathcing birds. :) I've
> > > written dozens of such.
> > >
> > > KS
> > >
> > > On 24/01/07, Max Richards
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >      Bird Snaps
> > > >
> > > > Drifting grandly over the lake -
> > > > the biggest water-bird we've seen!
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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