Frequenters of the Arcata Farmers’ Market may have noticed something missing this year: No, the strawberries, quail eggs and mushrooms are still in abundance — but versification while you wait has gone onto that ethereal plain. Well, not quite. Jacqueline Suskin, the oft-bespectacled proprietor of the Poem Store, took her lap-sized typewriter and lyrical mind […]
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Witness
Standing upon the cliff of impossibilities: I wait Ready to jump into the ravine where the canyons are wide and filled with the slow rivers of time the evening yawn of sunset, cools and the side pools are surrounded by the whine and whirr of crickets, cicadas But the lazy fish turn in their sleep […]
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What got kicked down
Seven years seemed impossible As a young man he had seemed Impossible that he had been here seven Years and still he found himself still On the Plaza With hand outstretched Sliding from one oil stained corner to another he Mocked those college students and berated The shop owners As capitalist tools Because he […]
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Reasons to Call New York
(Trinidad, 2006) Pumpkin shell finally rotted I made…
