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John Baldessari (Make a Splash at Parties)
Prismatic, Buñuel said.Chinese condoms andeffulgent magenta glob.Everything in thepublic record. That’show you makegreat images. Pleaseremove yr handsin respect ofthe dead. Describewhat you don’tsee. Clean, sterileactionable nouns. Beit boy orboar. The Frenchhorn swells predictably.Google feeds headlinesto the mountains.A poet doesn’tneed bleak intelligence,she said. Thisis a differentkind of river.I pour collageinto a blackmug, lucky me!
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Other People’s Poetry: “A Litany for Survival” Audre Lorde
For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision crucial and alone for those of us who cannot indulge the passing dreams of choice who love in doorways coming and going in the hours between dawns looking inward and outward at once before and after seeking a…