Crg Hill's poetry scorecard

Debate

“Issues tissues,” he asserted.

“You blow your nose with them
or wipe your ass.

Do you remember them
In ten years?"

the hen the

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he in heir moth nip

an tar suck ilk.

Eve new kit a harp law.

By he tim he it tens a 8,

the yes beg to pen, lit by it.

hen hey a 11,

the yes a id pen.

A ate he kit gin to ear sound.

It's the woman

across the table

who once was the child

It's the man

on this side

both father and not-father

It's the future

in the past

the past resonating

with the future

It's her soup--

chicken and wild rice--

and his takeout

tuna salad sandwich--

chips as a side--

and his watching

the time

as she describes

her passion with physics--

poems pulsing

from her mouth

Co-Habitation

 

A space

evidently

that requires

extended

parenthetical thought

to be inscribed

Typical Bedtime Conversation Between Noemi and Her Father

A typical exchange between Noemi and her father during or after reading a book or two (when he's not replacing every noun in the book, much to her exasperation, with the noun phrase "bees in cheese"):

"The words on the page don't sit still," Dad insists.

"Yes they do. They don't move even one bit."

"The words on the page poke and pet."

She rolls her eyes, scrunches her tiny shoulders.

He persists: "The words on the page poke and pet. Poking words poke, petting words pet."

When she's done howling at the poking words in her ribs, she makes her final statement: "They don't pet or poke; they don't poke or pet."

Dad gives in for now. Mom doesn't want her daughter too agitated at sleep time.

On his way downstairs, Dad still wonders why he hasn't convinced her that hugs need food to live, and he's never accepted her answers to these (and countless other) questions: If noises don't have mouths, how do they eat? If noises don't eat food, how do they stay alive? (she's so logical, she says that people make noises.) Why are trees afraid to show us how they walk? Why does she say furious when he says fur-ious? How did all those bees get in the cheese?

--first blogged August 2004

7

I
omens. She
her. I mean,

subliminal
doesn't fool
fibs and mine

for
I happen
zoo even if

that
that baboon
the way the

you'd
bought me
peanuts, and a

cream,
nuts, one
white soda. If

she
I'm afraid
voluptuous. She could

Whitman Co. Sheriff

8:05 a.m. -- Deputies received a report of an unconscious person near Central Ferry on State Route 127. It was determined the person was hunting.

Things To Do Today

Suspend belief

Eat a #8

Bathe behind

Climb through a smell

Comment on chromosomes

Anti climax

The old man said, cup in hand, "Someday you'll be wearing my coffee and I'll be wearing yours."