Thursday, May 5, 2016

kari edwards / a dark ageless groan / poem


a dark ageless groan 

an ageless tarnished dark. an insane, locked down iron cog, teeth of
the industrial age. the eternal in tightened steel color sounds.
abnormal ageless grinding, accompanied by torturing devices that
naturally come locked down in minds rotating moving another and
another. a dark ageless groan.

eternal moans, troops with steel things of enterprise, tightened hard
around the original crime of love, parts of the heart fall in agony,
locked down as a natural enemy, flowing in waters imperceptible. a cog turns a voice into the soured calculation within. the invention of
cement blocks, rusted in effort, brings flesh eating demons to
holocaust number 110023.

then the mechanical age, sound pieces drown down the invention of all movement based on an ancient roman coal furnace, blowing its soot over the efforts of disco.
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kari edwards (1954 to 2006). from the journal, eratio: postmodern poetry. issue one, 2003.

Monday, May 2, 2016

Denise Levertov. "Aware." Poem.


Aware 
When I found the door
I found the vine leaves
speaking among themselves in abundant
whispers.
My presence made them
hush their green breath,
embarrassed, the way
humans stand up, buttoning their jackets,
acting as if they were leaving anyway, as if
the conversation had ended
just before you arrived.
I liked
the glimpse I had, though,
of their obscure
gestures. I liked the sound
of such private voices. Next time
I'll move like cautious sunlight, open
the door by fractions, eavesdrop
peacefully.

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©1999 Denise Levertov. from The Great Unknowing: Last Poems. New Direction. 2000.   

Thursday, April 28, 2016

More Nobler (a poem)



More Nobler

I used to kick my mother.  
Don’t tell me you were 
nobler in the womb. 
I used to imitate the moon 
phased round dark light 
all through my gestation.  
In fluid floating and 
sprouting struck out  
at poor Ma, she so like
a Greek, bearing.
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by Sarah Sarai.  

Saturday, April 23, 2016

Book Release Party for Sarah Sarai's Geographies of Soul and Taffeta

Join me for the release party for Geographies of Soul and Taffeta, Sunday, May 1, 2016, 5 to 7 p.m., Zinc Bar, 82 West Third Street, New York, New York. 
Guest Readers: Jane Ormerod, publisher (great weather for MEDIA) and poet; Jee Leong Koh, publisher and poet (Financial Times best book 2015). & Tony Dohr - series host!
Jane Ormerod, a knockout, as always

Jee Leong Koh, dashing of demeanor

Tony Dohr, Zinc Bar series host & fan of the six-legged


The Facebook Invite

Friday, April 22, 2016

New book: GEOGRAPHIES OF SOUL and TAFFETA by Sarah Sarai (me) #poetry

Here is a photo of my new book, Geographies of Soul and Taffeta, hard at work and ready to be of help. Geographies is published by the wonderful Indolent Books, a new publishing venture of wonderful poet Michael Broder.

Geographies at artist Chrisopher D'Amanda's work space.
To order a copy, please visit Indolent Books. Click!