I.
Press your mouth up to mine. These words displease
but its all we got. I am salt, blue mists
covering dune grass. Dunes are the junkie’s
eyelashes. You are drunk. Our kiss consists
of your tongue in my mouth. Fat tongue that twists
in the wet air. Your mouth is a squandered
coast, a […]
Here is the second sonnet is the series. I am not sure where this will all lead to but I am willing to go along with the ride. We shall see. My friend Kaho wrote about the name Same Shoujyo that it contained sweet sugar and deadly poison. True. Now […]
I blogged a couple of days ago about writing a sonnet cycle about a Hawaiian Shark Goddess, Kane’ae, who became human to experience the joys of dancing. That sounded promising until it occured to me that stealing other people’s religious beliefs simply to write a poem is bad, sad and likely to bring the anger […]
Since I started blogging in August of 2005 (so long ago) I have read countless posts arguing about what “the new” form of poetry shall be in the American art scene. This is where we apparently are putting our energies; not writing poetry but attempting to second-guess what will be new. We are […]
Tess recently wrote me with this question: How do you choose the poems you translate? Or rather, why choose this one?
To be honest, Tess, it really comes down to poems I’ve either read in translations and thought, “hmmm … that is sort of interesting I wonder what it was like in the original?” or stumbling […]