You are in
search of some simple way to reach your home
but the old gods reach out with their
stories and resentments
and so your journey will be
troublesome
and frankly, endless
for you will go on to meet
people
who have never heard
of you
And when I hid
my hands behind my back
they looked like
white flowers
lying on a blue
cloak
And in a comment on his post about dim, dark, bright and rogue objects, Levi used Mrs. Plotsky on the luggage cart as an example of a rogue object
x. om usis peake oi a vis theno anlesherezzz nou oveo uda sihers
She is the woman
hanging from the 13th floor
window
What do you like
for period food? I like Kit Kats, Doritos and Subway.
I want a goddamn
pizza and some breadsticks or something greasy and gross
Pebbly rocks testify to old streambed on Mars
*
Blood test results: mostly normal
Heart attack risk factor: 10% over next 10 years.
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Birds and Birds and Birds
A little later — bright weather. — AN UNUSUAL melodiousness, these days, … from the blackbirds; indeed all sorts of birds, darting, whistling, hopping or perch’d on trees. Never before have I seen, heard, or been in the midst of, and got so flooded and saturated with them and their performances, as this current month. Such oceans, such successions of them. Let me make a list of those I find here:
Black birds (plenty,)
Meadow-larks (plenty,)
Ring doves,
Cat-birds (plenty,)
Owls,
Cuckoos,
Woodpeckers,
Pond snipes (plenty,)
King-birds,
Cheewinks,
Crows (plenty,)
Quawks,
Wrens,
Ground robins,
Kingfishers,
Ravens,
Quails,
Gray snipes,
Turkey-buzzards,
Eagles,
Hen-hawks,
High-holes,
Yellow birds,
Herons,
Thrushes,
Tits,
Reed birds,
Woodpigeons.
Early came the
Blue birds,
Meadow lark,
Killdeer,
White-bellied swallow,
Plover,
Sandpiper,
Robin,
Wilson’s thrush.
Woodcock,
Flicker.
[Note: Sources: Joanne Kyger, “Wild Currant is blooming Pink / The Odyssey by Random Chance”, in 2012; Gennady Aygi, “Tale of the Aging Harlequin”, in Into the Snow (tr. Sarah Valentine); JBR; Frances Madeson, FB comment, 30 May 013 (Levi = Levi R Bryant); Billy Bob Beamer, “4 pomes || Billy Bob Beamer”, at experiential-experimental-literature, 30 May 013; Joy Harjo, “The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window”, in Native North American Literary Companion (eds. Joseph Bruchac, Janet Witalec); babiesinatrenchcoat, “What do you live for period food?”, at anarcho-mom, 30 May 013; “Pebbly Rocks Testify to Old Streambed On Mars”, at Science Daily, 30 May 013; JBR; Walt Whitman, Specimen Days (31 May is WW’s birthday)]