Through slanting doors and broken windows odd furniture in dim rooms old books and roses rotting with age I follow you, charts and crumpled maps and paper glitter like a lost hope– Sudden sky and wide water reeds along a shore under a silver willow you call to the other side. No limb or vine […]
Category: Poets & Writers
Diagnosis
The sociopathic blindness
Poets Colin Corpe & Glenna Cooke Green Lake Library Saturday July 14 4-5:30 pm Presented by PoetsWest!
Green Lake Branch Seattle Public Library 7364 E Greenlake Dr. N. 4-5:30 pm Free: Come early to sign up for the Open Mic Host: Rayn Roberts Colin Corpe will read new work. Glenna Cooke’s new book is “Thresholds” Special Guest Melanie Reed with […]
The Seattle Star is a Neutron Star
http://www.seattlestar.net/ Neutron Stars: If a star has between 1.35 and 2.1 times the mass of the Sun, it doesn’t form a white dwarf when it dies. Instead, the star dies in a catastrophic supernova explosion, and the remaining core becomes a neutron star. As its name implies, a neutron star is an exotic type of […]
On The State of World Affairs and Other Madness
The cat chases its tail, the dog whimpers in sleep, The heart skips a beat… It’s not a nightmare, not a movie, a TV show. Wake when you will, but where will you be, in bed alone, In the den, your unknowing hand holding a gun, At your desk starting at nothing? It doesn’t matter— […]
Semi-Automatic Poem
Fucked up so right no pain but the ratchet of the night tightenin’ so tight so far out I can’t do the heady philosophy-faith-politics a bullshit trinity– Blow me away ta nothing? Yo i ain’t ready for no lead in my ass so i ain’t buying what the right-wing means i ain’t havin’ no fist fight […]
