Shut up

"...everything is torn down
Before you have had time to care for it. ..."

From "An Urban Convalescence" by James Merrill

*****

After yelling "SHUT UP!" at the Bad Driver yakking on their cell phone who cut me off on my way home tonight, it's clear I need a convalescence from urban (or rather suburban) Texas.

I'm gathering an old friend from the airport late Friday night, and early Saturday were are off for places such as this, and this, and this.

Back next week, and posting more late that week.
Have a peaceful week, all y'all!

Script Rud-

"All day all over the city every person
Wanders a different city, sealed intact
And haunted..."

From "City Elegies" by Robert Pinsky

*****

And, since I'm a font geek from way back, something extra.

Across the street

"...clinging at the empty
gilding of a door, she wants
a shower and lather of pumice..."

From "The Wreckage Entrepreneur" by Alice Fulton

*****

As my friend started up her car, I walked around the corner to see what was across the street.

Buick Eight with a tiny extra 5

"...all I wanted was to find an old
friend an old figure an old trigonometry
still true to our story..."

From "Midnight Salvage" by Adrienne Rich

*****

Heading to Galveston this weekend to see an old friend, and to keep an eye out for rust and entropic delights.

Have fun, y'all!
More, soon!

Nopal plus tiny bonus spider

After two hours of searching, no poems fit.

I searched on:
nopal poetry
prickly-pear poetry
bonus spider poetry
spiny poetry
Tex-Mex poetry
Luis Omar Salinas poetry
Ko Un poetry

And so the bonus spider goes unescorted, while I go off to sleep.

While running errands

"...the silences between the words—
faded yellow dashes on a disused highway. ..."

From "Primitive Road" by Lucas Howell

*****
Like the Lucas Howell lagniappe? See also Dave Bonta's "Ode to a Shovel".

No knocker

"...Dear dust-ghost, the instructions don’t make
sense unless I sing them. ..."

From “Ceiling Unlimited Series” by Matthea Harvey

Tilted

"...I've made a small hole in the silence, a tiny one,
Just big enough for a word. ..."

From "Nine-Panel Yaak River Screen" by Charles Wright

I turned and saw

"...a pure depiction of myself
written in water or else on the wall,
a plural entity..."

From "Grace" by Sarah Arvio

Platonic solids

"...As the walls clear themselves of everything
but transparency, the scent of carnations
leaves with them. ..."

From "Geometry" by Rita Dove

Hibiscus on a windy day

"...this dreamed sleight-of-hand
scatters away in a flash..."

From "Inaugurating the Sangha's New Monastery at Stone-Screen Cliff" by Hsieh Ling-Yun
Translated by David Hinton

Light starch

"...Think of an egg, the letter A,
a woman ironing on a bare stage
as the heavy curtain rises. ..."

From "Aristotle" by Billy Collins

Four-petalled fan

"...easing its way, searching out
The invisible junction between here and not..."

From "Diurnal" by John Welch

Marked down

"...Subtract this from substrate and glistening masses of rock
that lurk just below the surface
that will no longer bring profit..."

From "Burn, Burn" by Ander Monson

Boo x 2

"...Playing hooky again,
we carry eggs over french fries
& broken glass frozen on the pavement. ..."

From "Raw" by Don Winter

Perforations

"...extravagant
Sky entered and held surprise wide open. ..."

From "The Skylight" by Seamus Heaney

1899 in disarray

"...Refractions of the thousand theatres, faces—
Mysterious kitchens. . . . You shall search them all. ..."

From "The Bridge: The Tunnel" by Hart Crane