tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12388972720703715882024-03-21T17:35:45.940-07:00Sunrise with Sea MonstersPaul Vermeerschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07231290084082450698noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1238897272070371588.post-82142264412223862582018-10-06T15:09:00.000-07:002018-10-06T15:09:13.906-07:00Sunrise with Sea Monsters <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">by Souvankham Thammavongsa </span></span></div>
<b id="docs-internal-guid-8a373e7c-7fff-298d-17dd-4fd6ff1d3d1f" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /><br /></b><br />
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What had once been many shades of sun</span></div>
<b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></b><br />
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and cloud and what we had predicted to have </span></div>
<b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></b><br />
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a chance of is now. The face looking at us is</span></div>
<b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></b><br />
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">an outline floating in with two eyes and</span></div>
<b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></b><br />
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a mouth. This face could be ours looking back</span></div>
<b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></b><br />
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">from some past we’re going toward or just an</span></div>
<b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></b><br />
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">expression trying to keep us out. Whatever it is</span></div>
<b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></b><br />
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">does not matter. Wanting to live does. If</span></div>
<b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></b><br />
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">it is saying something we can’t stop for it. If it is</span></div>
<b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></b><br />
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">reporting the future and says what’s happened </span></div>
<b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></b><br />
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sew it shut and anchor it to sink and to stay sunk. </span></div>
<b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></b><br />
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We were going before anyone could call us gone.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Souvankham Thammavongsa's fourth poetry collection </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Cluster</i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is forthcoming from M&S in 2019. </span></div>
<br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Paul Vermeerschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07231290084082450698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1238897272070371588.post-51552250841487281292018-02-24T12:44:00.003-08:002018-02-24T12:45:25.793-08:00Sunrise with Sea Monsters<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">by Joel Giroux</span><br />
<span style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;">What am I but your own </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">inhuman eye, blind to all </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">but the red vision I am </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and am not, surrounded by </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">an amber world only periphery — </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">visible only from above, below; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">my ochre centre rattling the crux </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">of a world you wish did not exist </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">but expands, still, like a gas, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">an ephemeral non-thing, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">a transparent lid lifted </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">by a blackened hand </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">to reveal a red iris, a disease </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">of vision bled into a broiling landscape </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">that lacks the utter nightmare </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">of me, gleaming like the rotten ideal </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">of your dulled, inevitable horizon. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Even in God’s bloody eye </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I don’t exist, I do </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">in yours, and in the gold glare </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">that borders my face </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">growing slowly, approaching you </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">from out a darkness disguised </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">as everything the sun sees </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">but does not speak of, ever </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">out of immortal fear.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>Paul Vermeerschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07231290084082450698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1238897272070371588.post-71860027706752477042017-02-09T13:26:00.000-08:002017-02-09T13:26:01.286-08:00Sunrise with Sea Monsters
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">by Alanna Schiffer </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">We wake up despite ourselves. </span></span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Intermittent static and tempura </span></span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">squid-fingers of a yellow dawn. </span></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: black;"><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I love you in that gross, Irvine Welsh </span></span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">sort of way; cross-hatched in difficulty, in</span></span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">city fog. Garbage birds populate the shore </span></span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">of my sluggish adamantium, pathogens and rust </span></span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">coagulate into a Magic Eye likeness of Freddie Mercury. </span></span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Scotch tape blisters, the papery kid-puke smell of mid-century </span></span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">library glue, loose vertebrae peeling away. <i>Ping</i> is the sound of my </span></span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">heart, the sound of a screw falling out from a sleeping piston engine. </span></span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #141823;">Ping</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #141823;"> is a story about punishment, or a duck fishing on the Yangtze. </span></span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">All of them are asleep. Before they come for us, I brush chalk </span></span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">from the creases of my pillow. At some point in the night, </span></span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">we must have attended Coachella. Now where, on </span></span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">the surface of the water, should we put this sign? </span></span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #141823;">Achtung! </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #141823;">There are three monsters. Each time </span></span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">one is born from me, I say the same thing.</span></span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">What have I done.</span></span></i></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">What have I done.</span></span></i></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">What have I done.</span></span></i></div>
</span> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
Paul Vermeerschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07231290084082450698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1238897272070371588.post-38991624058772129322016-11-12T07:56:00.000-08:002016-11-12T08:00:41.479-08:00Sunrise with Sea Monsters<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">by Nick Thran </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">To be drawn to a certain quality of abstraction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The shape-shifting stains <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">on a monster’s teeth,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">the miasmic wash<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">of a monster’s breath. To consider<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">monsters who emerged<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">at the crest of the wave<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">or in the valley that followed the wave<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">or at the crest of the wave <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">after that. The clock <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">next to the log<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">has sunk. The log<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">has sunk. The sun on deck is less <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">a summer’s morn’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and more like a diagnosis. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Had we chased them far enough from shore? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Were good ones lost?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Is to love this smeared image <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">a morbid love?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Why cast two eyes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">on a sunrise like this?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Because otherwise only</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">a monster does.</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></div>
Paul Vermeerschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07231290084082450698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1238897272070371588.post-78521369546851689642016-11-09T13:24:00.005-08:002016-11-09T13:29:44.807-08:00Sunrise with Sea Monsters <i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">by Ally Fleming</span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It sputters, then it surges; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ocean enconched then at- </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ankle, rising, ripping want, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">a whip-wave night, stars </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">my squall-scattered teeth. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lear-blind, scale-palmed </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">monster me, roaring we 'til </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">morning groans horizon: </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>the yellow smoke that rubs </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>its back against that rubs </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>against the yellow fog the </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>smoke that comes and goes </i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The lustre of red wreckage </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">queasing, gored gorgeous: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">sea-glint glut of pitching </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">eyes and eyes and eyes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>Paul Vermeerschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07231290084082450698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1238897272070371588.post-86089963588724509902016-07-01T05:16:00.000-07:002016-07-01T07:00:48.149-07:00Sunrise with Sea Monsters <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>by Roseanne Carrara</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I swallow every time I see it. An old <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">man's calf, piece-jaundiced, shot with veins <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">so adjective they'd take any impression. <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">An end table, for like, must have stamped that owl <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">of a sea-cottage on his leg, the leg <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">in question. The kids love it. When he lifts<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">his pants-hem to show off the extent,<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">they’re mesmerized. They want to climb <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">inside that muscle, purple shed, and scavenge, <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">run their fingers over things, fill their pockets <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">with ceramics and manual-wind watches <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">they emphasize are chipped, inoperative. The kids, <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">they take and take, and large. Course, they don't know <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">my brother lived in there. Who knows what would <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">have happened to them if they'd gone inside <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">that bruise when he was holed up there. Least, <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">they would have missed curfew. He’d have kept <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">them talking, forever, he was going to make,<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">the commonest, his first and second million <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">in as many ways. Worst, still mild, though, <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">he'd have dragged one of them across the carpet <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">by the ankle — the girl, maybe — to get <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">himself fixed up with that glass of water <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">he didn't want to fix, himself. Did that <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">to me, once. He didn’t live for water, <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">though, he should have done. He wasn't placid, <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">then, but physic-pale. And I was right. <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">If he didn’t kill someone sometime soon, <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">he’d be the accident himself. I'd already <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">suffered so much over him, the whole of his body <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">inside that calf, that when he slept good, <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">finally, took some real hue, bruise-indigo, <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">himself, and stiff as anything, I felt adjective just. <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Red flag's out now. Wait, they say, for the helpers,<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">help will always come. But that’s a false tip,<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">loose bunting on consignment, Long, <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">loves, I swallow every time I see it. <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It'll make you terrible, I tell them, so they’ll look <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">back into that calf’s swelling, stare, <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and wish they could have pocketed <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">something smaller, more efficient, <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">when they first went rummaging in there.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #353535;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
Paul Vermeerschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07231290084082450698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1238897272070371588.post-83323146755958995662016-06-30T06:18:00.003-07:002016-06-30T06:19:29.716-07:00Sunrise with Sea Monsters<i>by Stuart Ross</i><br />
<br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
A horse sat down<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
on the bench beside me.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Look at the bunny,” it said,<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“leaping into the sun.”<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br /></i>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Water is very popular.
You can see through it. A horse and I noticed it in the distance. We couldn’t
get enough of that fluid. It constituted much of us. We became unusually
thirsty. When we tried to hang the water on our living room wall, it tumbled to
the floor. There it did roil. Aye, it roiled.</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br /></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br /></i></div>
Paul Vermeerschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07231290084082450698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1238897272070371588.post-57996578259795204782016-06-17T07:01:00.002-07:002016-06-17T07:02:17.275-07:00Sunrise with Sea Monsters <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">by Peter Norman </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Constantia; font-size: 12.0pt;">a</span></i><i><span style="font-family: Constantia; font-size: 12.0pt;">fter Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz</span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Oh scale-shawled
twineye<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">your undulations
call to me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">as krill-rimed
finblotch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">on barnacled
monstrosity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Groupers implore
you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">from jaw-girdled
skulldome<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(haplessly hung
there<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">twixt crinkly fangtrusion)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">that you decline
to rend them<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">with heaving gobbersmacks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">of gangleous codcruncher.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Likely you won’t.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "constantia"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
Paul Vermeerschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07231290084082450698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1238897272070371588.post-82059342847458428232016-06-11T06:29:00.003-07:002016-06-11T06:29:43.097-07:00Sunrise with Sea Monsters<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">by Ashley-Elizabeth Best </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In the morning's breath of mist I stare at the sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">that tells me nothing. I pound clothing into a scarp<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">of slatted rock, water seeping into porous stone. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The winds hunted howl of sound disguises his approach. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Calm with experience, my voice slowly breaks out of its <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">own heaviness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He's promenading in the hang of blue fog, I conjure<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">the ground as I walk towards him. He's saying something<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">about god's that live in the trees but I know only of the
sea. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I unbutton his shirt, uncover the wound so beautiful it is <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">forgotten in its loveliness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He was smiling in the way I fear, shrugged himself nearer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">like a thing waiting to be hurt. A gasp of time, pink forage
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">made a quick flush on my face where his mouth disgraced. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The tragic consequences of his presence suffocates, nearly <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">reveals the wealth of hate in me. What was Eve's apple of <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">choice? This must be mine. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">There is much in me to be forgiven. My deciduous memory, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">pleasure-flawed in the slow everlasting disease of grief. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I promise to tell him as much as I know. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The life in me trembles to the life in him.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
Paul Vermeerschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07231290084082450698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1238897272070371588.post-55945409146708586352016-05-24T08:38:00.002-07:002016-05-24T08:48:05.195-07:00Sunrise with Sea Monsters<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>by Melanie Janisse Barlow </i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 42.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">there
were no snacks at the breakup <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 42.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">there
are no monsters at this ressurection<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">in it <span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">it is so tender, so so
tender<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">a
heart-accordion <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">each
chakra lighting up like a light bulb on the upswing <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">in
it <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">a
battle between earth and water<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">interactive
Geminis<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">in
it<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">the
cup of anger ferments into a dangerous scoby<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">we
drink tumeric until our mouths are yelloworange<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 42.15pt; margin-top: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">sweetsalty blend <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">in it <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">you are a dead giveaway <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">if the sun is god it's a win here<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">only a whisper of a trap<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">set somewhere in the silt<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">of a morning coffee<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">in it <span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">an inner</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> pheasants on Brush Street scattering, multi-lingual </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 42.15pt; margin-top: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">the skirt of Martha
Graham evertwirling</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 42.15pt; margin-top: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">in it gold
tinsel swishing<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 70.5pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 361.5pt; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">an old, knowing dog crouching<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 70.5pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 361.5pt; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">rusts<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 70.5pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 361.5pt; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">a tin ceiling bent downwards <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 70.5pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 361.5pt; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 70.5pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 361.5pt; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">init some kind of holy order<span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 70.5pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 361.5pt; text-autospace: none;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 70.5pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 361.5pt; text-autospace: none;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">morning light is on pause<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">bent into a broken thing<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">shadowed<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 42.15pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 389.85pt; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">two men in their cups on a beer-bottled brown lawn<span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 70.5pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 361.5pt; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">candles keeping away bad spirits<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 42.15pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 389.85pt; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 42.15pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 389.85pt; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;">plants reaching skywards </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 70.5pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 361.5pt; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">old peeling signs<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 70.5pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 361.5pt; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">a wilted text message <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 42.15pt; margin-top: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 42.15pt; margin-top: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">tuning forks,
tuning<span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">did it die of lonliness Gwen? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">was it the last of our mysteries?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">indeed<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">it did, it was <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 42.15pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 389.85pt; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">ladies dressed in white lining the walls </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">whispering<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">in it such an inner<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">in
it the bricks are burning<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">we
are eating garlic sauce and 3d pita in Hamtramck <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">with
the sun kinding<span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">perhaps it is all friendly<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and really what we have here is fish<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">but the mothers are voiceless<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and loud in their inference<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">in it my language opposites<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">in it i tell you to hang pictures of what happened <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 12.8pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">a productive Tuesday</span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">in it problem solving is A1</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">in it i </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 10pt;">was thinking of tying a porkchop around my neck
so the cat would play with me</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">everyone is sorry to see you gone<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">relax<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">its just two fish <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">what is wrong with you?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">they are middling<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 18.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">in it the stars are on an upswing<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 18.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">a pearly white dashboard only practical in the a.m.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 18.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">in it an inner<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></o:p></span></div>
Paul Vermeerschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07231290084082450698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1238897272070371588.post-79294386162850178612016-05-15T05:09:00.002-07:002016-05-15T05:09:16.684-07:00Sunrise with Sea Monsters<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>by Jonathan Bennett</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Where there is doubt, there is<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">information stacked upon data<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">shoved in between factoids<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">that I catch and lob back.<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<br /></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">If you could just open your mind, he says <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">you could begin to believe the evidence.<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<br /></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Air brakes expel, he ducks <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">as if shot at, we normalize<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">the moment for passersby<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">who flip us weird or pity.<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<br /></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">If you could believe the evidence, he says<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">eventually your mind would begin to open.<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<br /></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Where is radical cool? Frequently <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">missed across the dial, surely.<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I catch and lob back white noise<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">squelching as ever-retreating loss. <u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<br /></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Sad face, he says. You are too skeptical. </span></span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You can't believe evidence way back there.</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
Paul Vermeerschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07231290084082450698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1238897272070371588.post-56794239928707793402016-05-14T06:14:00.002-07:002016-05-14T06:14:11.896-07:00Sunrise with Sea Monsters <span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>by Nathan Dueck</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">umami
chamomile lathers algae<span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">and
acetous ducts salivate</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US">C. albicans rheum<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">alkaline
brine<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">kombucha
curdles acerbic mucus<span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">dopamine D<sub>4</sub> <span lang="EN-US">undulates sulfurous chute flume<span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and
lye vitellus<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and
saccharin fungi chardonnay gurgles<span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">igneous
tracts percolate </span>β<span lang="EN-US">-keratin spume</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ethanol
gall</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
Paul Vermeerschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07231290084082450698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1238897272070371588.post-54455284311443246772016-05-13T05:42:00.001-07:002016-05-13T05:42:10.296-07:00Sunrise with Sea Monsters <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">by Alice Burdick </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Sun rides us,
inspired by the bristles<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">that stretch into
the mainstream.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The moon rides the
deep-down creatures<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">too. This is every
day as a planet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Whatever sits and
stares at us<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">mixes our colours
into a bright portent.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">That’s a word you
don’t see every day,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">but you could. Sun
rides us,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">long tail into the
atmosphere.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I told you it was
a bright beginning<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">but that’s not the
whole story.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">When you live at
the bottom of a bright<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">day, the mud is a
warm and fertile<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">bed. You are happy
there,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and happy here,
where all the smallest<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">breathers dive.
They blink right<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">into your golden
maw. Horses<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">of the ancients
paw the clouds<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">for water’s fall.
When you are small<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">the smallest
ancients too loom large.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Will we catch
them? We try. We dive, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">but we’ll never
finish - instruments stuck</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">deep in the lowest
muck.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
Paul Vermeerschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07231290084082450698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1238897272070371588.post-33591221088822183292016-05-05T05:50:00.001-07:002016-05-05T05:50:10.110-07:00Sunrise with Sea Monsters <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>by Jason Heroux </i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Every sunrise</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #222222;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">brings its own</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">sea monsters:</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">one morning</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">it was just a rabbit</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">we saw on our way</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">home lying injured</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">alongside the road</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">in yellow grass</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">hit by a car still</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">half-alive gazing up</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">at us as we went by.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span>Paul Vermeerschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07231290084082450698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1238897272070371588.post-38984199109207467852016-02-29T13:48:00.000-08:002016-02-29T13:50:04.284-08:00Sunrise with Sea Monsters<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>by John Melillo </i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXUhxbCcQIuhT1VDFWqjcrReSD5M4jenPIU8GspQxALG8BRAOMXWSXF29IBGs8ZT3jATKk3lSII1QPgi7GUFZlOLmvfFqIiOr4NIrlT8TZ_qkoCMH6lFO2QJZJQrH5wUW6yAqWolGQllY/s1600/Sea+Monster.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXUhxbCcQIuhT1VDFWqjcrReSD5M4jenPIU8GspQxALG8BRAOMXWSXF29IBGs8ZT3jATKk3lSII1QPgi7GUFZlOLmvfFqIiOr4NIrlT8TZ_qkoCMH6lFO2QJZJQrH5wUW6yAqWolGQllY/s320/Sea+Monster.png" width="291" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">every relief shows a response that refuses
to remain <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">a return<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">all the mechanisms fell down and took apart
the light <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">from there<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">now that they repeat a manifold, only the
holes broken in it<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">layer<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">the limited that was ours with the trash
that said <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">okay I’ll have <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">it that releases the shared into this one
thing not yours and no common<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">space in the maelstrom <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">will pull the you from the I or the surface
from itself, wave <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">from wave’s wave</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
Paul Vermeerschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07231290084082450698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1238897272070371588.post-42805902920215377992016-02-26T10:03:00.000-08:002016-05-05T05:50:35.687-07:00Sunrise with Sea Monsters<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">by Susan Gillis </span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Another grey
morning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Only bare trees <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">break up the
middle ground<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">between snow and
sky.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">As usual, I take
a bowl of coffee upstairs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">As usual, snow
begins to fall lightly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Small sounds
occur, like the fan, the refrigerator,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">J. placing his
cup on the tray, shushing the cat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">who is whining
for something more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Shh</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">, he says, then more sharply, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">whsht</i>!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Looking up from
my book to another dull sky<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">the wish for
light, real sunlight,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">the kind that
opens cracks, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">that makes wet
shine and damp gleam, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">radiance even
the coldest rock absorbs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">rears up wildly,
rushes into my throat.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">That’s what I
say to myself then, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">whsht!</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br /></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br /></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br /></i></span></div>
Paul Vermeerschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07231290084082450698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1238897272070371588.post-13076022018025505212016-02-21T18:10:00.004-08:002016-02-21T18:10:30.191-08:00Sunrise with Sea Monsters<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>by John MacKenzie</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I know little about sunrise.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It comes, they say, once a day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I have waked, occasionally, to see<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Its traces still on the world,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Yellow and red stains of light<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Spreading around clean shadows<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Shrinking from the touch; as beggars<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Might shrink from bankers on the street<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">If they knew that corpse-cold flesh<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Subsumes what it touches.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Though sometimes, as today, dawn<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Finds me walking by the water.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The north wind blows offshore carrying<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A wailing tuned among city towers<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Across the harbour clotted with spume,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Freezing to splintered teeth gnashing<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Again after another false spring. I know</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We forget what we know. Sun, rise.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
Paul Vermeerschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07231290084082450698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1238897272070371588.post-61714328644853207362016-02-18T09:40:00.002-08:002016-02-18T09:40:58.499-08:00Sunrise with Sea Monsters<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">by Julie Cameron Gray</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tourists,
the seashore is nothing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">more than
a dirty mile <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">of horizon
and the smell of fish <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">tacos clinging
to our clothes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Who will
be the last alive <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">to share this
view?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The ten
carat gold sky, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">its
mustard gas dream.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Let’s find
a handsome cab<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and tell
the driver to drive <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">around
until the meter <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">hits sixty
and the horses tire,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">the sun
forever rising<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">on the
British empire, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">dragging its
gamey leg</span><br />
<span style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;">around
town.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
Paul Vermeerschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07231290084082450698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1238897272070371588.post-7105025706515863122016-02-08T15:50:00.001-08:002016-05-05T05:54:03.911-07:00Sunrise with Sea Monsters <div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">by Ingrid Ruthig</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Piss,</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> she says, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the
paint’s <o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">all urinary shades!</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> And later, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">look how the catalogue muddies <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">what’s clear if you’re present</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> – <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">this frame
of world <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">viewed
through a master’s eye <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">is the tint
of a jaundiced day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It’s tough
to do justice, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">reproduce
the nature of disclosure <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">or capture
the exact moment <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">we
understand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">this
swirling miscreation <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">hunkered
agape in the smirch <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">stares out
as if willing us to see<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">we’ve
always been <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">inside it,
drowning <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">in the
picture we paint of ourselves <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">looking
back, invisible<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">on a
diminishing shore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">all day
long</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">or as long
as the light holds.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div>
Paul Vermeerschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07231290084082450698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1238897272070371588.post-72787985324246101002016-02-02T13:55:00.000-08:002016-02-02T13:55:08.529-08:00Sunrise with Sea Monsters <div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">by Jacqueline
Valencia<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This is the ick that lines the stomach<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">when crisis strikes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Instead of butterflies there<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Pisces exists <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">having just missed<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">a scheduled planetary alignment <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">it all goes retrograde<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">affecting Taurus in the gut.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A new day dawns but the <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">visceral pain <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">is still there<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">the fishes swim<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">making the heart sick<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">instead of bloom<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">they jet out <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">every which way<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">from tips of fingers<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">top of the head<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">hang on to the throat <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">for a while before<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">heading down to the toes<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">making the knees buckle<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">in their trajectories.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">They spin so fast<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">create another <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">species of themselves<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">growing tentacles out<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">blotting out whatever light,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">love, and a solar system of<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">hope becomes eclipsed by <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">a new soul-sucking,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">gall-ingesting void.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A body is a cage of feeling<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and the keys are hidden in the head<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">in cosmic antlers<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">the monster can only get out<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">when hurt escapes all reason<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">so push it down with astral arms<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">down further below <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and it will dive <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">to avoid its disintegration<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">a fence will be built to corral it<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">binding it into submission<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">as an impression of its purest form<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">grief in repression.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The sun rises again<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">despite the emotional<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">whirlpool of endurance<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">in the solar plexus</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">obscuring the deep feel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
Paul Vermeerschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07231290084082450698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1238897272070371588.post-44519482636499149172016-01-22T06:04:00.002-08:002016-01-22T06:04:54.083-08:00Sunrise with Sea Monsters<div class="" style="color: #212121; line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">by Ali Znaidi</span></i></div>
<div class="" style="color: #212121; line-height: normal;">
<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></div>
<div class="" style="color: #212121; line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="" style="color: #212121; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Sun can be a thick lemon in the mouths of invisible sea</span></div>
<div class="" style="color: #212121; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">monsters. The sea waves take the camouflage of sullied </span></div>
<div class="" style="color: #212121; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">lemonade. It’s a matter of betrayal. A corpus of concepts </span></div>
<div class="" style="color: #212121; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">distorted by translation and empirical encoding. This sun </span></div>
<div class="" style="color: #212121; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">has arisen from a corroded sky, an eczematous firmament, </span></div>
<div class="" style="color: #212121; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">or precisely, from a foundation that has nothing to do but </span></div>
<div class="" style="color: #212121; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">conceal and mystify, creating glossy legends, but, in fact, </span></div>
<div class="" style="color: #212121; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">the coin inside the wallet is rusty. It’s just a schema using </span></div>
<div class="" style="color: #212121; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">fake metavariables that may be replaced by flowery linguistic </span></div>
<div class="" style="color: #212121; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">items to yield malformed formulae—Fake golden piercings </span></div>
<div class="" style="color: #212121; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">on the monsters’ tongues—This monstrous, one-sided, ugly </span></div>
<div class="" style="color: #212121; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">truth they want us to believe under the lure of yellow shadows. </span></div>
<div class="" style="color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="" style="color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
Paul Vermeerschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07231290084082450698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1238897272070371588.post-8988721488244041522016-01-19T16:48:00.001-08:002016-01-20T18:43:01.482-08:00Sunrise with Sea Monsters<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
<o:TargetScreenSize>544x376</o:TargetScreenSize>
</o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
</xml><![endif]-->
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:WordDocument>
<w:View>Normal</w:View>
<w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom>
<w:TrackMoves/>
<w:TrackFormatting/>
<w:PunctuationKerning/>
<w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/>
<w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>
<w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent>
<w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>
<w:DoNotPromoteQF/>
<w:LidThemeOther>EN-CA</w:LidThemeOther>
<w:LidThemeAsian>JA</w:LidThemeAsian>
<w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript>
<w:Compatibility>
<w:BreakWrappedTables/>
<w:SnapToGridInCell/>
<w:WrapTextWithPunct/>
<w:UseAsianBreakRules/>
<w:DontGrowAutofit/>
<w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/>
<w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/>
<w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/>
<w:OverrideTableStyleHps/>
</w:Compatibility>
<m:mathPr>
<m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/>
<m:brkBin m:val="before"/>
<m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/>
<m:smallFrac m:val="off"/>
<m:dispDef/>
<m:lMargin m:val="0"/>
<m:rMargin m:val="0"/>
<m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/>
<m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/>
<m:intLim m:val="subSup"/>
<m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/>
</m:mathPr></w:WordDocument>
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
DefSemiHidden="true" DefQFormat="false" DefPriority="99"
LatentStyleCount="276">
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="0" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Normal"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="0" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="heading 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="35" QFormat="true" Name="caption"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="10" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Title"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="0" Name="Default Paragraph Font"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="11" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Subtitle"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="22" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Strong"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="20" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="59" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Table Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Placeholder Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="1" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="No Spacing"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Revision"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="34" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="List Paragraph"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="29" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Quote"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="30" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Intense Quote"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="19" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Subtle Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="21" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Intense Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="31" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Subtle Reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="32" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Intense Reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="33" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Book Title"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="37" Name="Bibliography"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" QFormat="true" Name="TOC Heading"/>
</w:LatentStyles>
</xml><![endif]-->
<!--[if gte mso 10]>
<style>
/* Style Definitions */
table.MsoNormalTable
{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";
mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;
mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;
mso-style-noshow:yes;
mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-parent:"";
mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;
mso-para-margin:0cm;
mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";}
</style>
<![endif]-->
<!--StartFragment-->
<br />
<div class="Body">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><i>by Keith Inman</i></span></div>
<div class="Body">
<br /></div>
<div class="Body">
<br /></div>
<div class="Body">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Were you
full of sarcasm, JT<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="Body">
<br /></div>
<div class="Body">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">a red a
white buoy <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="Body">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">snarled in
stormy flotsam <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="Body">
<br /></div>
<div class="Body">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">net-washed
on a beach<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="Body">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">in
coal-fired morning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="Body">
<br /></div>
<div class="Body">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">England,
then, had everything <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="Body">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">for what
Beijing would become.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="Body">
<br /></div>
<div class="Body">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">‘Erebus
the whaler’ harpooning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="Body">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">the wealth
of the world for jolly old<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="Body">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Britain.
‘Another fish,’ me hearties.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="Body">
<br /></div>
<div class="Body">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Feathered
wolf-dogs gull<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="Body">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">their way
to the white winged whale-fin <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="Body">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">flagging
the crowd on the wharf, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="Body">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">‘Naought
else to do, Gov.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="Body">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">but
surrender to wooden sharks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="Body">
<br /></div>
<div class="Body">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Are these
your sea monsters, JT<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="Body">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">beyond a
smashed cross, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="Body">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">timbers on
a rocky, empiric shore,</span></div>
<div class="Body">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">sails in
the fog.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="Body">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="Body">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><br /></span></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Paul Vermeerschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07231290084082450698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1238897272070371588.post-51749732427600177632016-01-17T06:17:00.001-08:002016-01-17T06:17:30.531-08:00Sunrise with Sea Monsters<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>by Susan Perly</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We are entering the mouth of dark <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">in every paint dream,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">we are sailing on night feet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">into fleet gold and the twisted weeping.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">There are small moons outside our<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">hearing, small dragons stains<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">above us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">in the too bright.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In our lucid mournings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">it is way too bright<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">for our brains.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This dark<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This gold</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This footed mud with eyes</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
Paul Vermeerschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07231290084082450698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1238897272070371588.post-30950995260237630102016-01-14T05:34:00.001-08:002016-01-14T05:40:54.777-08:00Sunrise with Sea Monsters<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>by Michael Prior </i></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">i.m. M.M. <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Salt
cinches the corners of her face.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Across
the bay, smoke scales the cranes<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">posed
like hammers above the panes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This sun,
this face,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">a damp
match tossed into a blaze,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">alight,
then gone: the diode’s morphine<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">drip. A
wave smooths her face.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Across
the bay, smoke scales the cranes.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
Paul Vermeerschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07231290084082450698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1238897272070371588.post-73573303031053353032016-01-13T05:54:00.001-08:002016-01-13T06:58:29.651-08:00Sunrise with Sea Monsters<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>by Catherine Graham</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Wide awake like a parent or spouse, <u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">the worry having caterpillared <u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">down my spine crawls<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">into my mouth: <i>where were you?<u></u><u></u></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He stands at the front door,<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">a breathalyzer sticker on his chest.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Floating letters glean—<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He did not pass. <u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Downcast, he stares at my fingers,<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">waiting for the wag and point.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Relief. <i>My father’s alive.<u></u><u></u></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I shut my eyes to keep from waking up.</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><br /></span></div>
Paul Vermeerschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07231290084082450698noreply@blogger.com0