Terrific, Mark, & very 'snappy', indeed....
Caught on the run, or on the....
Doug
On 14-Jul-10, at 2:37 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:
> PLAISIR D'AMOUR
>
> Invisible splinter, remains
> of a forgotten glass, left
> inevitably, no matter
> the cleaning.
>
> So much for the everyday.
>
>
> EQUAL & OPPOSITE
>
> A day given
> to cloudbursts, and
> two women on the train
> dress for the chances,
> one in boots,
> the other sandals.
>
>
> MAKE IT NEW
>
> Is it the difference
> that lack of sleep makes? Takes
> the shine off?
>
>
> SIC TRANSIT
>
> Where once the Iron Duke
> slaughtered thousands and crushed
> the hopes of millions
> fighting his losing battle
> a boot by his name
> trods boggy ground. The first
> forgotten. Nobody called him
> Welly then.
>
>
> TOMBSTONE
>
> Robert Zipper
> Marquis of Trousers
> Slayer of Foreskins
>
>
> TRY IT
>
> Shared discovery
> of a particular
> motion: "If I shake
> my hands
> just right
> I can feel
> the bones rattle."
>
> And suddenly
> they're all
> doing it.
>
>
> Announcing The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry (University
> of California Press).
> http://go.ucpress.edu/WholeIsland
>
> "Not since the 1982 publication of Paul Auster's Random House Book
> of Twentieth Century French Poetry has a bilingual anthology so
> effectively broadened the sense of poetic terrain outside the United
> States and also created a superb collection of foreign poems in
> English. There is nothing else like it." John Palattella in The
> Nation
>
Douglas Barbour
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