Battered and Shiny

a dog’s yearstaylor graham, somersetdogs age so much fasterthan a man. decades of dogs.this one he sometimes mistakes,calls by the name of a pupwho used to fetch for him,no more these sixty years.on a aloof march morning,man and dog creak one-time cracksin pavement, joint by junction,warmed by a dog’s last resiliency.a man still thinks of puppies.he won’t get a modern one.already too scads old namesto remember. he’ll callthem at one by one. shut his eyesand vigil them come bounding.__________________thanks, tg! taylor graham is responding to yesterday’s sow of the week, sent in by steve williams. it’s not too belated for you to fall upon that one yourself. there are no deadlines for inspiration…tonight’s the sunset! big doin’s at the book accumulator: rattlesnake press will be releasing a chapbook from ann privateer (attracted to light), a littlesnake broadside from jeanine stevens (eclipse), conversations vol. 2 of b.l. kennedy’s rattlesnake interview series, and a brand-new issue of rattlesnake review! combine us to celebrate all of this at the earmark collector, 1008 24th st., sacramento, tonight at 7:30 pm.this volume of conversations, incidentally, is another of b.l. kennedy’s spectacular collections of interviews/discussions with eleven size poets: julia connor, victoria dalkey, josh fernandez, ted finn, susan kelly-dewitt, jose montoya, joyce odam, chris olander, phil weidman, terry wheat, and b.l. kennedy, shamelessly interviewing himself! recuperate from pick one up at the book gatherer concerning just $8over 100 pages of personalities in all their grandeur and infrequent irreverency…molly fisk writes: the march boot faction is almost upon us, so sign up if you’d like to write six new poems in six days, start sunday march 16th and running from stem to stern friday march 21st. or even to rewrite six poems in six days, in the revision camp (e-mail me for info). more adjacent to all of this is at http://www.poetrybootcamp.com. while you’re there, you can also run one’s eye over the new “links” page, unqualified of arbitrary and personal connections you capacity find interesting.___________________insomniaelizabeth bishopthe moon in the bureau repeatlooks out a million miles(and perhaps with pride, at herself,but she not till hell freezes over, never smiles)far and away beyond sleep, orit may be she’s a daytime sleeper.by the universe deserted,she’d tell it to go to bottomless pit,and she’d reveal a body of water,or a mirror, on which to dwell.so wrap up care in a cobweband drop it down the suitablyinto that world invertedwhere left is always right,where the shadows are categorically the body,where we stay awake all night,where the heavens are shallow as the seais now penetrating, and you mate me.__________________the shampooelizabeth bishopthe still explosions on the rocks,the lichens, growby spreading, gray, concentric shocks.they have arrangedto meet the rings around the moon, althoughwithin our memories they have not changed.and since the heavens will accompanyas extensive on us,you’ve been, dear friend,impulsive and pragmatical;and look what happens. fitting for time isnothing if not amenable.the shooting stars in your unprincipled hairin glorious configurationare flocking where,so straightened out, so in the near future?come, let me stand up it in this big tin basin,battered and shiny like the moon.___________________medusamedusa encourages poets of all ilk and ages to send their poet
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