A Poem by Paul Celan

O Little Root of a Dream O little root of a dream you hold me here undermined by blood, no longer visible to anyone, property of death. Curve a face that there may be speech, of earth, of ardor, of things with eyes, even here, where you read me blind, even here, where you refute me, to the letter. by Paul Celan Translated by Heather McHugh and Nikolai Popov This poem by a ...

melancholy sunshine

I am very ready for this week to be over. I was supposed to go over to a friend's house this evening - she is my closest ward neighbor, around the corner from our place - to feed the missionaries, but they asked to come at 5:45pm. Since I'm working on a document with a deadline for tomorrow, I told C. that I wouldn't be able to make it. Oh well. I feel like going to bed at 7pm tonight. I ordered...

Ghazal of the Better-Unbegun

Ghazal of the Better-Unbegun A book is a suicide postponed. --Cioran Too volatile, am I? too voluble? too much a word-person? I blame the soup: I'm a primordially stirred person. Two pronouns and a vehicle was Icarus with wings. The apparatus of his selves made an ab- surd person. The sound I make is sympathy's: sad dogs are tied afar. But howling I become an ever more un- heard ...

Those of you who like long entries are gonna have orgasms...

So this meme went around, what, two weeks ago? More? Less. General gist: Comment and I'll give you 5 things I associate with you - or, in Tyler's case, give you five questions to comment upon. Post, elaborate, meme onwards. I commented twice. So I now have ten random things to write about - all of which are apparently associated with me! I. From blinovitch : "You will make public ...

Now all the gods are gone

Nonetheless, the mail this afternoon brought my contributor's copy of (Going Going) GONE , the latest not- Not One of Us publication in which my poems "The Golem in Flight" and "The Road to Volodny (Partisan Song)" appear alongside seajules 's "Kumiho," Patricia Russo's "Claude's Ghost Story," Steven J. Dines ' "In the Cage with Ghosts," and other disappearances; check it out ....

Lone ranger.

Bought the season 4 The Wire DVDs last week, and I've been re-immersing myself in this wonderful series, the delights and the tragedies. Making up for the lack of recognition on-show of his death, there's a awful lot of fan-written obituaries out there for The Wire 's Omar Little. Here are just a few: NY Magazine , Obit Magazine , Baloney & Cereal , Newsweek . Any Spanish-speakers out ...

Touch in Flood — SPN — Dean/OMC — NC-17

Title : Touch in Flood Author : azephirin / abi z. Fandom : Supernatural Pairing : Dean/OMC Summary : No man, at one time, can be wise, and love. Rating : NC-17 Word count: 464 Disclaimer : All your Winchesters are not belong to me. Author’s note: Written for the " Things Not Said " challenge on spnflashfic . This is part of a 'verse (the other stories are here ), ...

Вот выпала сегодня такая страничка в поисковике, когда искала  стихотворение, которое неким уважаемым журналом было якобы куплено у меня два года назад. Ни стиха, разумеется пока, ни денег. Не самый лучший стих туда поместили, но, как говорится, дарёному коню...

Poem Presentations

...Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane." © 1986, http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15411 The Nikki Giovanni poem I wanted to use was; "My First Memory (of Librarians)" http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19505 Saul Williams is one of the spoken word artist that I'm interested in doing. His poem "Telegram to...

That's Great. Now, Do It Again.

Note: My Friday writing post this week, since my head is throbbing and my entire body feels like it's been beaten with lead hammers, is a repost from a Midnight Hour post I did last June . For a number of reasons--not least the fact that I'm talking with a fan lately about "first books" and how he shouldn't stop writing even if he's got a manuscript to flog, I think it's germane. Here it is, in...