WhimsyLand

Honestly, talking about a short attention span:  "Time for pirate story to walk the plank".  I mean, all this happened like yesterday, right?

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I received my Spring/Summer 2009 32 Poems and found some nice work, among which is:

Jennifer Militello, "Rorschach Test":  "The rooks flying out from a burning house / are in themselves the collapse of the eaves".

Rachel Zucker, "After Baby After Baby": "The bed and desk both want me. / The windows, the view, the idea of Paris".

Joanne Diaz, "Christmas in Southern California":  ". . . I for one // cannot forget the singular loveliness of the cold / its thin insult, how it made us suffer everything".

Lesley Jenike, "A Phony Dialogue":  "No fair, you sd, That all possibilities diminish inside an hour. / And the painting we thought was the painting we thought it was / is not.  Flowers could be trumpets if only they'd open their petals".

Temple Cone, "Spring Covenant":  "When the grackle soul rends its metal / Read-a-leak, read-a-leak // And the bleb of sun casts chill / Through the craquelure of hickory,"

Alison Pelegrin, "Katrina Scribendi": "Oh, look -- a gawker with some bullshit poems / about the hurricane.  Just what we need, / our drama in real life reworked to be PC. / Yankified and chicken fried. / Happy to oblige".

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I was listening to country music while treadmilling yesterday.  Why the aversion to full rhymes?  It's not just the artful use of assonance, it's like they think they're rhyming, but they're not.

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Josh Corey:  "Solitude like this is luxurious and lonely in nearly equal measure"

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Gabe:  "On this day 1722 Christopher Smart was born into a little body. A premature baby, he suffered from a delicate health all his life. Most famous for his religious poetry, in particular his "A Song to David,” Smart wrote one of the strangest (I think) books in the language, the Jubilate Agno. “Jubilate” is the plural imperative “rejoice,” and “agno” the ablative of “lamb."

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As Aliens is one of my favorite movies, I'm interested in what Zach has to say about the similarity of Ripley and Joan.

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It's not often you see two or three world-class geniuses in the same sentence:  ""Oskar Morgenstern, who along with Albert Einstein was to serve as one of his two witnesses at the proceedings, reports that Godel had taken the injunction to study the American system of government for the naturalization exam quite seriously, so much that he confided in Morgenstern that, to his distress, he had discovered an inconsistency in the American Constitution. "

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Henry on Acmeism, whatever that is.

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Really.  I just got an email from one of the many wine companies that do that.  They're selling Domaine des Ouches for $11.99.  From the Loire Valley and guaranteed to hurt you.