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Snapshots
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LEAVE when he tucked up early morning in bed with her said when shall we leave? she sleepily dozily replied annual?study? sickness?parental? special?or other? and sort of drifted off. pmcmanus 6am raynesparkuk *** VON TRIER IDIOTS versions of the others says it was not the institution down the road. Barry Alpert / Silver Spring MD US / 5-19-04 (10:06 AM) I found the above text lying on the floor yesterday, and realized that although I had abandoned hope (during the screening) for a publishable poem out of my one viewing of Lars von Trier's THE IDIOTS, now 7 weeks later it strikes me as a presentable "minor work". Perhaps also an odd footnote to the serial sixteeners I carved out of Jesper Jargil's THE HUMILIATED, an intimate documentary on the making of THE IDIOTS. That text, "Talk, Lars von Trier", can be accessed at http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=printpage&pid=390 *** I got word while Elvin Ray Jones was dying that he was dying and within a gale of desire those three weeks ago I dreamt a goldfinch making a nest of thorns surviving on nearby thistles remembering how such behavior was once considered Christ-like & that these birds could prophesize the recovery of one infirmed-- placed on a sickbed the bird gazing at the sick one recovery imminent yes as I said within the gale of desire Gerald Schwartz west irondequoit, new york u.s.a. 10:40 am.... 19 may 2004 *** A lovely tribute, and yes, sad. How sad to think that, like Messiaen, birds presage healing, that Francois d'Assise could hear in them angelic orders, when all there was that day was the Abysm. Ken Wolman *** The car won't start and the toilet keeps fractured dreams running. The parakeet died. White fur all along shattered the river- bank, but no blood, no bones. Broken limbs glasses. Garden pavers scattered digits with petals of lilac, mountain ash, strewn across rain. Iridescent black bird ravishes a twisted the feeder. Shrill whistles and ravenish landscape clunks. Dark rising river, muddy, foaming. Sharon Brogan 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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