Deer Park Poetry Group

...a poem revised after our meeting at The Central last month:


WIDE OPEN


Sipping weak broth from a plastic cup
this southpaw with skinny braids
remembers running home from school
along a narrow walkway
that cut through the cluster of flats
where he used to live

As a young boy he longed to live in New Mexico
today he wonders if chewing apricot seeds
will break down the cancer

but when he is afraid he imagines
curling up in the sleeper
behind the cab of his old truck

After his passion for hunting took over
he built his first blind covering it with camouflage
mindful that geese always feed into the wind

He holds onto this patience for birds now
as he lies here wide open

eye spy

I finally got around to sending my submission to the 1,000 Artist Journal Pages project. This is one of the pages that made the cut...

another Sunday afternoon well-spent

Ode to Tutti Matti

Enjoyed a leisurely dinner with Patty at Tutti Matti last night. The food was incredible: thank you Alida!

Field Guide to Longing 1.1

Larus argentatus    breeds across hemispheres    resounds on Great Lakes
the east coast    city parks    garbage dumps
Lore    three seagulls flying together directly overhead
forecast death
Mating    abundant adaptive omnivore with complicated taxonomy
seeks same

Thanks to Catherine Tammaro
for turning me on to the work of Alexander Calder:

Follow up.....

Last night at the Drake Underground: Scott & I really enjoyed the PoetBureau's presentation of gw raspberry and Catherine Kidd -- not to mention the Wu Tsang Nixons with the incomparable Phoebe Tsang on violin.



Next month: Catherine Kidd is launching her highly anticipated novel, Missing the Ark, alongside Emily Holton's Little Lessons In Safety, at the Gladstone next month. Scott & I saw Emily Holton's exhibit, Celebrity Hand Jobs, at The Centre for Culture and Leisure in January and loved it.

Coming up....

@ the Drake Underground:

Poetry | Process Performance
collaborative word cabaret

in the Underground at the Drake Hotel 1150 Queen Street West

Tuesday April 3th
7:00 – 9:00 pm, cover $7

Poets working in collaboration with other artists:
Gary William Rasberry
and Teilhard Frost
Catherine Kidd
Wu Tsang Nixons

www.poetbureau.com
416 410 8300 • info@poetbureau.com

Looking back...

...on pictures from the dreamSTATE site.

m o r e . . .

Check out more Buddha Machine Gathering #1 photos at StillePost.