Bio for 2023
part tree,<br />part protoplasmic spunk,<br />part inchoate dryad’s saddle, cudding a madder-licked flange of buttery muslin<br />clipped and ribbed to dissemble a swollen stock submerged amid gnats in molasses,<br />part of a gripple collective of reticent choir boys <br />hobbling virulent Tuvan throat song, <br />cobbling strips of gritted and sallowing psalms<br />with spittle and<br />what’s the difference<br />to furnish a meager fleet of simply simpering topeng,<br />all of which Judith Bliss;<br />part ant, part frog, <br />part muttering myrmidon;<br />part manx , part malamute; <br />part of a party of one<br />that asks for additional lemons<br />and sugar abounding<br />the weight of a gurgling ant hill<br />only to suckle one witless sip for innumerous seconds,<br />though only innumerous in that it seems so peerlessly boring, <br />only to elbow it over and<br />quietly<br />hint at another<br />by scraping its teeth with a wizened straw—<br />part agate, part smoldering spall of tarmac;<br />part its ribs with a desolate gesture; part of the aggregate <br />birdsong; part persimmon,<br />just par for the course, you see—<br />and with a deforméd ear, to boot.
Reason for signing up:
To share and relish in seasonal verse. Please, and thank you.
Poems Submitted This Year:
- June 01, 2023 Closing arguments
- June 02, 2023 Prolegomenon for a divergent man
- June 03, 2023 a Cross examination
- June 04, 2023 from The Orphan’s Suite (Berceuse for wind chimes)
- June 05, 2023 false ekphrasis*
- June 06, 2023 Lascaux no more than a splintering matchstick (Pisgah popped by a fan of the Cleveland Guardians, shitting on Sitting Bull’s wriggling gelatin silver print, proud as a house cat buffed in the musk of a garter)
- June 07, 2023 His name was Herlihy Cochran Elmtree.
- June 08, 2023 Some evermore swollen moment clenched to a peach pit
- June 09, 2023 The coroner probes an infant Woyzeck’s foibles, teased to a knee-jerked mashed potatoes or rain dance—
- June 10, 2023 Sylvia scribbles a love song...
- June 11, 2023 from The Orphan’s Suite (Lacrimosa, for Mint To Be lipstick clicked betwixt ticklish teeth)
- June 12, 2023 a protracted spat with eternal recurrence, forever reborn as an earthworm strung in a robin’s song book— or the shrill and enveloping eye of a fruit fly sapped in a vinegar trap
- June 14, 2023 Interpreting dog-leggéd crow’s feet crimped in the throat of a louring locust
- June 15, 2023 What’s spoke among crooning euphoniums tracing the heat of a gibbering junkman’s stare in glooming blooms of bibulous hymns and sententiae
- June 16, 2023 The sallow smoke that rubbed its nose in the carpet
- June 19, 2023 The drunken aunt in me ponders the housing crisis, much as you’d covet your neighbor’s cat or dip your toe in the oenomel Lethe and say to a crumbly clot of mud so sere, displaced, and dispossessed, “Now, how ‘bout that?”
- June 22, 2023 Excerpt from The Littlest Castle, reworked to an awkward verse
- June 23, 2023 The Bronco, come Noel Coward’s birthday
- June 26, 2023 Uncoiling ghosts of the broken band at 535, and Orpheus, praying he’s Jean Cocteau still, limning an image of Thalia, lapping at leather upholstery licked to a gum band
- June 27, 2023 Her orrery, winch-worked porcelain dancer, combing the grace from Georgie Shaw
- June 29, 2023 Theogaloam
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