Going through the shelves I found Horizons, a literature and art review journal edited by Cyril Connolly, who quipped, “Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.”‘ One excerpt stood out from an issue of October 1947 by e.e. cummings (whose name he rendered […]
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Haibun: Time Travels Us
Fingers getting grey, going thru boxes in boxes, tucked in with vases were small albums of snapshots. Years slept undisturbed, imperturbable. Opening the plastic burgundy, I find we were children together, with joy that would make a pregnancy glow dim by comparison. Baby fat still over forehead, how did we look so old to one […]
Form: Cento
Cento is a form where you cut lines and reassemble to a new whole. Scribal Terror explains more. Here I’ve taken nursery rhymes and cobbled them to a different plot. Only punctuation is shifted, every line is a direct lift, including the title. Take your wings and fly away When the boys came out to […]
Questions
A while back you may recall I responded to Silliman‘s style of asking questions in Chinese Notebook by providing my own answers. Luminita Suse has posted a response to Sunset Debris by Ron Silliman by asking questions of her own about the nature of poetry. Fascinating and fun read. Continuing the questioning theme, issue 7 […]
(fiddle hey a diddley dittie)
the very next day it took leave of me waving it off merrily beside myself, fatigued at the overly long stay But the funk came back and it had kittens… The Cat Came Back Film at the NFB