Aw, the Heaven of Capitalism. In deathless prose. It would wicked to ask
for fries to go.
On 21 March 2015 at 15:37, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Walking Vanya the senior Labrador yesterday up Capitol Hill,
> our eye was caught by a box at someone’s front gate.
>
> FREE POEM
>
> Changed each month by the householder.
>
> I expected something very homemade,
>
> but it was a Ted Kooser poem from his book of the same name,
>
> Copper Canyon Press 2014
>
> ‘Splitting an Order’
>
> I like to watch an old man cutting a sandwich in half,
> maybe an ordinary cold roast beef on whole wheat bread,
> no pickles or onion, keeping his shaky hands steady
> by placing his forearms firm on the edge of the table
> and using both hands, the left to hold the sandwich in place,
> and the right to cut it surely, corner to corner,
> observing his progress through glasses that moments before
> he wiped with his napkin, and then to see him lift half
> onto the extra plate that he had asked the server to bring,
> and then to wait, offering the plate to his wife
> while she slowly unrolls her napkin and places her spoon,
> her knife and her fork in their proper places,
> then smoothes the starched white napkin over her knees
> and meets his eyes and holds out both old hands to him.
> On Mar 20, 2015, at 16:44, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Ha ha ha - I get a 'free' coffee every morning - if I make it myself. A
> > poem is much more difficult :-)
> > \
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> > On 21 March 2015 at 05:08, Patrick McManus <
> [log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Strewth I have missed this !!!!I expect someone did well in Sutton
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On
> >> Behalf Of Douglas Barbour
> >> Sent: 20 March 2015 18:00
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Subject: Re: world poetry day
> >>
> >> Too bad I don't drink coffee, but then Canada seems not to be listed
> there.
> >>
> >> Doug
> >> On Mar 20, 2015, at 11:20 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/mar/20/poetry-coffee-pay-wit
> >> h-a-poem-cafes-world-poetry-day
> >>
> >> Douglas Barbour
> >> [log in to unmask]
> >>
> >> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
> Continuation 2
> >> (UofAPress).
> >> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> >>
> >> There is no life that does not rise
> >> melodic from scales of the marvelous.
> >>
> >> To which our grief refers.
> >>
> >> Robert Duncan.
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Andrew
> > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> > 'Undercover of Lightness'
> > http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html
> > 'Shikibu Shuffle'
> >
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
>
--
David Joseph Bircumshaw
Website and A Chide's Alphabet
http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
Tumblr: http://zantikus.tumblr.com/
twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.com
|