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November 25, 2008
Rain rattles like rice grain, begins 7,107 by `fllnthblnk. The poem takes you on a journey through the Philippines. I love the images and the attention to sound in this one. A poetic fea(s)t!
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Literature
Manuscript
I have written us down, typed us up, and sent us out.
they will edit us, and say some parts are no good.
but I want your run-ons, your lack of punctuation; and you are so easy
on my weak binding, my damaged spine.
Literature
Lake Windermere
We are sometime tourists,
forever wanderers
in open topped buses
tie-dyed amongst Mercedes.
Stringy haired,
smelling of campfire smoke,
our pockets filled with menthol cigarettes,
tin whistles,
and skipping stones.
We find ourselves
basking in the glow of laughter
under the dripdrip
of cave music.
Beers and sticky chocolate bars
fill our tattered canvas bags,
alongside leather flip flops,
discarded for bare footed expeditions
amongst spiders
bloodchilling streams
and daisy chains.
Literature
of birds and rain
document 1.
may 17th.
"if this is how it starts
how hard is the rest going to be?"
may 18th passes. so does june 22nd.
in the time between and
after, I am left only with my birds
and the rain
and it rains all the time.
august 7th. I can no longer hear
the geiger-counter clicking of the gutters
over the echoes of crows and
car horns, though the mud that
devours my shoelaces each morning
tells me the storm still hits while
I'm asleep.
november 24th and even the pigeons
have gone. buildings boarded up,
graffiti
all over my car.
nothing shiny left for them
to shit on.
january 6th now--
eight
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This poem won in =salshep's Armchair Travel Contest: [link]
This poem was also accepted for publication in Read This Magazine.
They also have a deviantART page: ~ReadThisMagazine.
This poem is about the Philippines (the title is the number of islands it comprises).
Adobo: a dish of pork and/or chicken stewed in a soy sauce, vinegar, garlic, and peppercorn broth—[link]
Salu-salo: a get-together
Halo-halo: a dessert of shaved ice, milk, coconut, purple yam pudding, jackfruit, etc.—[link]
This poem was also accepted for publication in Read This Magazine.
They also have a deviantART page: ~ReadThisMagazine.
This poem is about the Philippines (the title is the number of islands it comprises).
Adobo: a dish of pork and/or chicken stewed in a soy sauce, vinegar, garlic, and peppercorn broth—[link]
Salu-salo: a get-together
Halo-halo: a dessert of shaved ice, milk, coconut, purple yam pudding, jackfruit, etc.—[link]
Mature
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This is a great place to be in. And I'm drooling with the adobo and halo-halo lines. It's great that you still remember all that! I can read it again and again and again, and I will never get tired of it.