Crg Hill's poetry scorecard

Leather for a Middle-Aged Poet

squirrel thong

Leather for a Young Poet

og-ear

Another Feather For A Young Poet

flutter

Bush said God told him to invade Iraq

Bush said God told him to invade Iraq, Arab leaders say. I knew Cheney was influential to Bush, but I had no idea he had achieved diety status. Are there any other gods in this administration? Oh, dumb question. George is a monotheist.

Tomorrow's

headline:

"Bush says

radicals want Iraq

for

empire." Flip

that preposterous coin

Bush

haters proclaim

neocons want Iraq

for

oil. But

spin the coin

on

im/possible edges,

truth's dizzy, doubting

In Dialogue

Chipping

away at

ignorance, wishing he

could

Chop, CHop

CHOP -- who makes

these

pesky, narrow-

minded legs anyway?

The Big Bang

Noemi, six year old cat wizard, has a new obession: outer space, planets, galaxies, baby universes. She checked out two books on stars (probably the first books she's picked out that weren't about cats) and has watched a Bill Nye the Science Guy episode on outer space at least a couple times. She especially loved the sequence when he showed how if the earth was the size of a marble how far away the sun, the size of a soccer ball, would be from earth (in fast-motion he ran down a hall passed several rooms in the studio). Today she asked if light speed was the fastest speed.

Here's a hay(na)ku we created last night:

"Have

you ever

seen a universe

laugh?"

I asked.

"No! Ha ha!"

"See,

you're laughing,

you're a universe."

Thought-provoking Point

from the introduction to M. M. Bakhtin's The Dialogic Imagination, edited by Michael Holquist, translated by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist:

"The majority of literary scholars are most at home when dealing with canons, which is why Bakhtin said that  literary theory is helpless to deal with the novel [contemporary poetry, too, I insert]. Rather, 'novel' is the name Bakhtin gives to whatever force is at work within a given literary system to reveal the limits, the artificial constraints of that system [concrete/visual/sound/zaum/lang po/poetry]. Literary systems are comprised of canons, and 'novelization' is fundamentally anticanonical... Always it will insist on the dialogue between what a given system [pool of quietude] will admit as literature and those texts that are otherwise excluded from such a definition of literature [concrete/visual/sound/langpo/poetry]" (xxxi).