Friday BBQ

If you are enrolled in the Greg Orr poetry workshop this weekend and available there will be a BBQ at the UMass Field Station this Friday at 6 PM.  Please e-mail me (lensir@hotmail.com) if you plan to attend and I'll send you all the details.

len

Poetry Writing Workshop With Gregory Orr

Pollen

Pollen

Slurry in the morning

Eyes red itching

Take an antihistamine

Might make you irritable

More than usual

By ten am mouth dry

Nose cracked bleeding

Sun baked membranes

Here comes the migraine

Ears ringing…

Cicadas of the cranium

Element of water

Close at hand

Therein the solution

Complete emersion

Loose the laundry

Pour in

Sluice out in the evening

Melted Styrofoam

Write this down that proves your existence

Carve it into rock leave it at the road not taken

The last sign post before the un-raveling

Once the satellites fall from your eyes

You'll see the world skewed through a whole new prism

Listen for the crickets that aren’t there anymore

As in a trance dance counter to any celestial occurrence

We know the stars are out there without any visual evidence

Warm ourselves with the refracted light past tense now

Smell the end of days roast the last meat cooked

Chart our course for tomorrow by dead reckoning wave to the camera’s no longer working

Fabric of time putrid remnants we wear on our backs

History wrinkles the map of our faces

 A fine ash cloys in our nostrils like the red clay of Texas

Nostradamus, who has the last laugh now

Len Talks Poetry with Yesterday's Island

I'd forgotten this interview and found this link and send it along to you.

http://www.yesterdaysisland.com/archives/articles/13a.php

Poetry For Memorial Day

http://poetry.about.com/od/ourpoemcollections/a/poemsofwar.htm?nl=1