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Snapshots
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gray cat haunches up Wish I had some weed. If I had some weed Wednesday would be better. Understand today aint exactly bad but weed would make it better. Though I did jam some blues on bamboo flute with Otis Rush, some weed would make the music making better. Have I said "better" yet? How 'bout "weed"? Got some? Good Humboldt bud, not that scruff from Mexico full of seeds. I mean some righteous-one-hit-cough-till-your-frontal-lobe-explodes-mamma-this-is- scary- I-don't-wanna-be-this-high-weed. Know what I mean, Billy Jean? Thunderheads bloom out of nowhere over mountains, horizontal lightning cracks the sky. Frank Parker, USA, 9.9pm, 7/23/03 Zig-Zag Journeys in the Sunny South a gray cat on the edge of a bird bath drinking in the desert dawn there's doves above Palo Verde branches and thorns the sky. wipes warm and clean my worn out seams died and gone to heaven or hell. when I slide into my blue car, a gaping hole bleeding wires where Sachdev's flute used to sing. worlds crumble do everything do nothing. Driving to work, at the first light day laborers swarm a corner, their brown hands, brown bags, Circle K coffee. The light turning yellow, I punch the accelerator belly up to the salsa bar Frank Parker, Tucson, AZ 08.06.03 New Morning it is good to begin with poetry, water the garden, taste some coffee, play a few notes on the flute, B sharp, G the wild flowers Frank Parker Frank's Home a gray cat on the edge of a bird bath in the desert Frank Parker Tucson, Arizona, USA Frank's Home a gray cat on the edge of a birdbath in the desert Signal Hill a family photo turned into wallpaper "the longer human history petroglyphs suggest" 1/11/04 Frank Parker saguaro blooms doves Palo Verde branches and thorns sky Frank Parker Spring, 21 April '04 Tucson, Arizona, USA Poetryetc is a listserv relating to poetry and poetics which provides a forum for poets to debate their critical and creative work. The list has over the years run a number of projects for its members, of which Snapshots has been the most enduring. Every Wednesday, Poetryetc members were invited to post short poems on any subject or in any form they chose. The idea was to make a poetic collage of instamatic “snaps” of that day that reflected the international membership of the list. The project has generated an astounding number of poems. The first two runs, of six weeks each, and the first ten weeks of the third run, are archived at Wild Honey Press www.wildhoneypress.com under Poetryetc Project. The rest - amounting in all to a run of a year - are archived here. Poetryetc, like its affiliate Salt Publishing (http://www.saltpublishing.com), was founded by Australian poet John Kinsella. Salt is managed by Christopher Hamilton-Emery (cemery@saltpublishing.com), while Poetryetc is owned by Alison Croggon (ajcroggon@bigpond.com). Poetryetc is now archived at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/poetryetc.html. and anyone interested can join from that url. To contact the listowner: Alison Croggon These pages are designed, maintained, and hosted by Rebecca Seiferle, the Editor of The Drunken Boat. To email. 
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