COLIN BARRETT ~

 

R E A D     M E

RICHARD HOLMES ( BIOGRAPHY ) ~

 

WATCHING THE RIVER FLOW (1971) ~

 

MIKE SEEGER (1964) ~

 

NOVELIST AS A VOCATION ~

 

R E A D     M E

WILL ALEXANDER ~

 

Ghostly Bonding by Kinetic

Since the living body persists

as strange accelerated crimson

what of its post-biology through ideas through ghostly bonding 

      with itself as kinetic?

does it persist within its after-state via chewn reindeer?

or does it unearth itself via post-mortem figment?

because kinetics reabsorb themselves

they remain trenchant

as certain owls

roaming the horizon as signs

___________________________

Will Alexander

Divine Blue Light

    for John Coltrane

City Lights Books 2022

OLAV H. HAUGE ~

Mountains Don't Attract Me Anymore

The mountains don't attract me anymore.

I've lived long enough between cold snowfields.

I still find my way in the woods, listen

to fall wind, and stop at the forest ponds,

engage with streams. Even late in the year

you can find good berries there.

You have to cross mountains if that's not enough.

Peaks stand there, so you know where you are.

______________________

Olav H. Hauge

The Dream We Carry

translated by Robert Bly

Copper Canyon Press, 2008

ELFRIEDE JELINEK / FURY ~

 

R E A D     M E

THE MONK'S RECORD PLAYER ~

 

R E A D    M E

An ugly as sin dust jacket but

the book is a delight to read

BABY BOY WARREN ~

 

GERRY LOOSE / TWELVE AIRS ~

 

song of the thrush

sense of sound on air

knowledge of tree space in thrush-song

thrush weight on the branch

thrush weight on air sense

song weight on air space

nuthatch

qui-qui-qui who

slant-stone-on-ice song

going up coming down

upside song a ring

downside voice ceol

a-breath a-voice a-song a-ring

mistle thrush

a high clear closure

in throat tuc-tuc-tuc

of smeòrach a psalm

of stormcock a fluting

of wood/wind a lament

a sanctus in livid sky

___________________

from TWELVE AIRS

Gerry Loose

Dockyard Press/Glasgow

2023

SON HOUSE ~

 

Recorded Live, 1964

Remastered by Ryan Smith

SOUND EXPERIMENTS ~

 

S O U N D     E X P E R I M E N T S

University of Chicago

2022

CHUCK BERRY ~

 

RE A D    M E

ROBBIE BASHO ~

 

Robbie Basho

CLASSIC BLACK & WHITE JAZZ SESSIONS ~

 

R E A D     M E

1 of 2500

M O S A I C    R E C O R D S

JAMES PURDY ~

 

Oxford, 2022

THIS IS THE WAY IT'S DONE ~

 

JB

way ahead

of his time

R E A D    M E

RizzoliElectra

 2022

FAREWELL DAVID LINDLEY ~

 

1944-2023

FIVE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA ~

LITERARY ALCHEMIST ~

 

R E A D    M E

MIRCEA CARTARESCU ~

 

R E A D    M E

MOSAB ABU TOHA ~

On A Starless Night

On a starless night,

I toss and turn.

The earth shakes, and

I fall out of bed.

I look out my window.  The house

next door no longer

stands. It's lying like an old carpet

on the floor of the earth,

trampled by missiles, fat slippers

flying off legless feet.

I never knew my neighbors still had that small TV,

that the old painting still hung on their walls,

that their cat had kittens.

Palestinian Streets

My city's streets are nameless.

If a Palestinian gets killed by a sniper or a drone,

we name the street after them.

Children learn their numbers best

when they can count how many homes or schools

were destroyed, how many mothers and fathers

were wounded or thrown into jail.

Grownups in Palestine only use their IDs

so as not to forget

who they are.

Sobbing Without A Sound

I wish I could wake up and find the electricity on all day long.

I wish I could hear the birds sing again, no shooting and no 

    buzzing drones.

I wish my desk would call me to hold my pen and write again,

or at least plow through a novel, revisit a poem, or read a play.

All around me are nothing

but silent walls

and people sobbing

without sound.

Hard Exercise

In Gaza,

breathing is a task,

smiling is performing

plastic surgery

on one's own face,

and rising in the morning,

trying to survive

another day, is coming back

from the dead.

A Rose Shoulders Up

Don't ever be surprised

to see a rose shoulder up

among the ruins of the house:

This is how we survived.

_________________________

Mosab Abu Toha

Things You May Find Hidden In My Ear

Poems from Gaza

City Lights Books,  2022

JOHN SAYLES IN THE CLOSET ~