Frabjous Times : Category poetry, everything about poetry

It's just the Fall

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:42:00 -0600

shuffling

through Manhattan

dry scraps about my feet,

scarlet and gold, like crumpled up

bank debts

A question for Abuelita

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:04:00 -0600

Swaddled

in a corn husk

a savory something -

why do we make these only at

Christmas?

The relic

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:36:00 -0500

One foot

beneath these leaves

you might find a grenade,

or perhaps some old letter once

thought lost.

Top five

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:40:00 -0500

From Amaze: The Cinquain Journal comes word that my poem Railroad out of bondage has won fifth place among poems published there in 2007. I am so pleased, I shall simply quote here what the reviewer, Denis Garrison, mentioned about the piece:

Magahiz has essayed a subject that is profoundly meaningful in American society and carries a tremendous baggage of social, cultural, and other resonances. The diction is reminiscent of the events but never condescending. Although the reader must bring something more than usual to the table with a poem like this, its deep allusions will be apparent to millions. This is a hauntingly beautiful poem that comes back to one over and again.

A very nice bit of news for which I am grateful.

Censer eleven

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:51:00 -0500

steel frame spines and plate glass

make the finest incense

the slim columns stretch up toward the

stratosphere

don’t make me sketch out the lines

of chalk

neither malice nor envy can ever

stand up quite right

along one pendant spline

the char

I have been pretty scarce around here, I know and it pains me. Four times, or maybe five, I’ve tried upgrading the site here to the latest version of the blogging software, each time coming up empty because of database changes. I have gone through the last couple years of my output and sent off the best six or eight poems off to journals, garnering a single acceptance so far. And I have been spending some considerable amount of my creative writing effort at my new wiki devoted to teaching evil villains about their craft.

Slow movement

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:33:00 -0500

violins to your left

low strings

to the right

raise your baton to cue dust-dimmed suns

Log Boom Park Stars
Originally uploaded by Reid Wolcott

Gossip

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:33:00 -0500

unlike

us,

she does not

keep it in a

cranium; instead it hangs

in a velvet pouch at her waist where it swings

not far from her dagger hand

and if you ask –

with a smile –

she’ll

show you

The Lucan-no-haiku form is described in a marginal note here. This one is a slight variation taking a mirrored 2-1-3-4-7-11-7-4-3-1-2 syllable count

Turista

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:20:00 -0500

A Vulcan chap touring Myanmar,

Was seized with with the need for Pon Farr.

One hand clutching the wheel,

He reached out to feel

For the mind-melding link to OnStar.

At night the fractal stairway speaks

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:02:00 -0500

The Fear Inside of Me is Just Me
Originally uploaded by Josh Sommers

my ripped heart

you will find northwest of

my ripped heart

Specular reflections

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:30:00 -0500

addressing

that sweet abyss:

“yes, yes”

shot full of holes, the substance of our dreams

Sklar, Gibson, and Yong –

their lungs full of

something grey…

floors turn into ceilings (halfway there)

still,

she had to go back…

the smell of burning hair

the purple ones are the girls, I think

there, boy, look!

that nebula there

that was your father

I count the stars; each one flares and dims

he tells her

“put on your other face,

the other”

flecked with hot sauce: angel wings, deep-fried

text, don’t write:

my senses have taken

leave of me

they took a risk. who remembers them?

the loudest prayer

ever said…

and it was answered