Posted on December 12th, 2009 by Monsieur K.
POINT LOBOS SEA POEM
FOR MATT’S 42nd BIRTHDAY
SAN FRANCISCO
Taking the 38 Geary Fort
Miley and getting off
at Point Lobos cliff
The Great Highway begins
I think of you within the stunning
play of light crisscrossing
my breath water
imparts information
from the spirit world
encasing our bodies
other women greet thee
kiss thy hands
touch thy mind
other men greet me
we greet everybody
you get upwind
light a [...]
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Posted on December 12th, 2009 by Monsieur K.
THE DRUNK’S WIFE LEAVING THE CITY
In the immense silence
I am dissolving
I cannot keep the gauze
from my eyes
I take the charged sun
into my stomach
for anybody
the generations
and the generations
will have to do it
for themselves
I am unowned
completely surrendered
to inertia
lolling lethargy
aware of the integrity
in each drop of whiskey
not interested
in pretending
that I am not drunk
intensely hunkered down
within slabs of indecency
quietly [...]
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Posted on November 19th, 2009 by Monsieur K.
Photo taken from Big Hammer No. 13, Page 80
JOHNNIE & ME
for Kate on her 21st Birthday
I always knew I was great I
even though I lived in a housing project
my grandmother told me I was
she told me she was / my grandfather was
and all thirteen of their children too
even though Sears & Roebucks and others
never paid my [...]
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Posted on November 19th, 2009 by Monsieur K.
SEA POEM FOR SARAH ON HER 21ST BIRTHDAY
AND BECAUSE SHE JUST GRADUATED FROM THE AMERICAN
ACADEMY OF DRAMATIC ARTS IN NEW YORK CITY
The gathering fingers of the one
aaareflecting light
and the roaring
aaaacoming
joyous infallible perfect
Oh molten profoundness
aaaseething
in arcs aaaarolling
aaagathering gathering sun
sun platinum
aaaadriven
land lifted
aaaavoluptuous
satin flawless lustrous
aaaaENUNCIATIONS
leaping leaping leapingaaa up
ragged the arcs
aaamolten [...]
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Posted on November 19th, 2009 by Monsieur K.
SLEEPING UNDER GIANTS IN A CAZADERO FOREST
“Sharing the water that
no one could ever own”
the geography could eat me!
could eat you! but
earth eros is conscious
listens to us
it was night—
remember
until my eyes adjusted
the dark obscured their height
i arrived at 11 o’clock
walked past silent tents
some people in a
building still up farther off
i made my way [...]
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Posted on November 18th, 2009 by Monsieur K.
Miriam Halliday Borkowski | Photo by Jean Weisinger
I first met Miriam
at a poetry reading that happened monthly in an attic in New Brunswick, a small city in New Jersey, USA in the early 1980s. It was viewed as the ‘other’ reading in town, different from the ‘popular’ reading in one of the bars [...]
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Posted on November 6th, 2009 by Monsieur K.
Miriam Halliday Borkowski | Photo by Jean Weisinger
COME SEE THE CRACK LINES ON JULIAN IN SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI’S CITY
and hear the calibrate in percentiles
the level of consciousness
received from their pipes
isn’t that all anybody wants
a high level of consciousness
they nod and decently avert their eyes
my son reminds them
they are participating in their own
genocide the gates
of [...]
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Posted on February 2nd, 2009 by Monsieur K.
2002
Filed under: iniquity press / vendetta books
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