Fine start - Is there more? Some trickle of memories would provide some more rich poems, methinks. Andrew On 4 July 2011 21:28, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > *Dead Man's Float* > > milwaukee, wisconsin. sometime > near the beginning of the war. > a 4th of july parade, amid news > paper reports of bodies found > dismembered, dumped in trashcans > along the lake michigan beaches. > > we decorate our tricycles > with fireproof red white & blue > streamers. we pump along the route, > waving our flags, grinning > at patriot parents. later > > that summer i fell in a lake > & survived. my too-old-for-the-war > uncle began to teach me to swim. > arms out. legs out. face > in the water, holding my breath: > learning to live, practicing death. > > > > > > "Reality cannot be copywrited." > --David Shields > > Hal > > Halvard Johnson > ================ > > [log in to unmask] > http://sites.google.com/site/halvardjohnson/Home > http://entropyandme.blogspot.com > http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com > http://www.hamiltonstone.org > <http://www.hamiltonstone.org/> > http://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/home > <http://www.hamiltonstone.org/> > *Mainly Black< > https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1i_JGJ_FqQldEnUq7cwjV8giYykz_tsGbTkC2EkAP3IM&hl=en&pli=1# > > > , **Obras Públicas< > https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/halvard-johnson-obras-publicas > > > ; **The Perfection of Mozart's Third Eye and Other > Sonnets< > http://www.scribd.com/doc/27039868/Halvard-Johnson-THE-PERFECTION-OF-MOZART-S-THIRD-EYE-Other-Sonnets > > > ;* > *Organ Harvest with Entrance of > Clones< > http://www.amazon.com/Harvest-Entrance-Clones-Halvard-Johnson/dp/0965404390/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1283182804&sr=8-1 > > > ; **Tango Bouquet< > https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ATDp6rzKkBkhZGZwand2cHdfOWc1Mnh3Zw&hl=en > > > ; **Theory of Harmony< > https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/fall04/theory1.pdf > > > ; * > ***Rapsodie espagnole< > https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/rapsodi.pdf > > > ; **Guide to the Tokyo > Subway< > http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Tokyo-Subway-Other-Poems/dp/0971487316/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1283183153&sr=1-3 > > > ; **The Sonnet Project< > https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/hsonnet.pdf > > > ; * > ***G(e)nome <http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/fall03/genome.pdf>; **Winter > Journey <http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.winter.html>; > **Eclipse<http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.eclipse.html> > ; **The Dance of the Red Swan <http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.dance.html > >; > * > *Transparencies & Projections < > http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.transp.html> > * > -- Andrew http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ 'Mother Waits for Father Late' republished available at http://www.picaropress.com/ http://www.qlrs.com/poem.asp?id=766 http://frankshome.org/AndrewBurke.html