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SYMBIOTIC MODEL T by Carlos Colón & Marlene Mountain BETWEEN by Conrad DiDiodato & Karina Klesko SKINNY DIPPING by suhni bell, sheila windsor, cindy tebo, & marlene mountain RUBY.COM by Owen Bullock & Catherine Mair OWNING IT by Owen Bullock & Catherine Mair FORMATTING by Catherine Mair & Owen Bullock DEEP IN PINK by Terri Lee Grell & Jane Reichhold COOL, GRAY MORNING by Jeanne Jorgensen & Marlene Mountain LENGTHENING DAYS by Elaine K., Ella Wagemakers, & Zhanna P. Rader INVISIBLE BUT HONEST by Marlene Mountain & Francine Porad ORIENT EXPRESS by Manuela Miga & Vasile Moldovan SENSE REPLENISH by Sheila E. Murphyv & Dan Waber UNTITLED by Patricia Prime & Catherine Mair FREE EMOTICONS by Francine Porad & Marlene Mountain LAW AND ORDER by Francine Porad & Marlene Mountain IN
THE MOMENT by Marlene Mountain & Francine Porad
HATS & SCARVES by Patricia Prime & Catherine
Mair
GIBBOUS MOON by Alexis K. Rotella & Carlos Colón OLD HOUND ASLEEP by Grant Savage & Betty Warrington-Kearsley FOREST
OF DREAMS by GRAPHICS by John M. Bennett & Jim Leftwich John M. Bennett & Scott Helmes |
how far do our feelings take their as you broke thru the glass bricks i began to bleed going numb i reach for you first that first touch tracing pain's path before easing torn pages from our screams thru clenched teeth we survive to tell each other even more and in the telling, time flows again into the stillness tonight she reminds me the spaces between words are where we dance and made flesh i follow the curves this odd silence so white-hot our tears spill and hiss
outside the lines & over the edge from the black ash we draw signs slow drips across the canvas between open legs the crowning and birth cry
'model t' i crank my shoulder out of socket farther than catholic bingo mr virtue's gambling ventures* first stone cast through her reflection 'days of rage' ** out of the fire into the frying pan 'our' iraqis and afghans daybreak the snap of a bacon strip add a semicolon a pleasant yet popular two-moments haiku
enough rain to float a pond murder case cable news viewers updated by leaks and bounds # a pact of lies in the world until a pack of irises west nile virus a headless blue jay in my front yard a baseball statistic batted down one mascot summarized in a pie chart the career of soupy sales 'as long as it takes' a war deadline with depth ## labor day paint project a tub of spackle covers the dropcloth enamored by a 'geico' gecko an adman's woman paradingthroughmyphonelineblackantsblackantsblackants in the tangled morning glories more of them nursing home jigsaw puzzle the celebrity's eyes missing
birthday party the call button unanswered finally back the computer with 1 thing fixed leaves fall 1 x 1 halloween season a pumpkin patch on my arm only green onions left in the garden 'no pain no gain' worst kind of rerun california wildfires two soldiers killed was that today yesterday or tomorrow b a l a n c e d & a i f r first snow in a dark hollow melted and warm across the road ankle-deep in my own wallow one little cow sits in a cage it falls over then there were two ++ new year's eve reading myself into double-vision ah the moon in real time no matter 'corporapetions' ignore it a path beaten by neocons hail to the chief cheney belated christmas gift one more well-intentioned book of spamku whew only bills to answer from the mailbox handwritten letter the flourish at the end of your name can you hear the respelling of matriarchy 'bee' champion the one-syllable shriek toward the judges * former drug tsar william bennett
emerging silence this chrysalis moon a leaf cups the wind – caught in a backwater – teetering. . . .
SKINNY DIPPING 1sb skinny dipping a full moon competes with Perseids 2sw fireworks the sprinters legged it 3ct 'paraskavedekatriaphobia'a burst of laughter around the 7th syllable 4mm nobody understands me an exciting day 5sb transgendered at the free clinic so many forms to fill out 6sw a full and frank exchange of silence 7ct downtown new madrid home of the 'it's our fault' t-shirts 8mm stolen car striped on the road a pretty red 9sb under construction the inukshuk trembles 10mm rain only in the tracks where a backhoe didn't go to the spring 11ct from a.m. to p.m. a change in the cicada clocks 12sw helicopters whir another fifty plucked from a warming globe 13sb night deposit bird splatter where the kigos 14mm late summer into early fall before early winter until late march 15ct out of heaven's cannery the sardine clouds 16sw more chlorine than a swimming pool the pre-packed salad
notes: august 2004
RUBY.COM on the wine cork
lies on the floor
a submarine
OWNING IT the taste
a sylph
John M. Bennett & Jim Leftwich
FORMATTING i. neptune s necklace wanting to get journalist
ii. you came into my world
before the paint’s dry television set
Zorro again
a collection of artifacts
iv. adding it up they all want
DEEP IN PINK ambrosia tongue deep in the pink conch shell blowing on one end clear tones all around breeze from behind whistling boys bone white bikini on her shapely hips jealous-green eyes falling to her knees the red silk kimono fastened in place by blood-gorged lips opened by heat the morning sun enters with him only moments before the chill up her spine parting cold on pearly teeth her sad smile he swears it was only heavy breathing not yes yes yes whispers white among the rocks at high tide drifting out to sea his fishing pole her hair a heart-shaped shell in a sea-green glow tender to the touch her hidden stretch marks lifelines hum a colorless love song holding my tongue in the abandoned mineshaft black sweat work of naked men golddigger at the salt lick a sudden urge the sound of water daubed on paper white-out corrects copy dear Jesse stop please read stop my lips stop expletive deleted part of a woman's body
Begun: 11/1/89
COOL, GRAY MORNING cool, grey morning tonight the 'Oscars' a melee of haute couture a white carpet in the way to the mailbox sometimes just waking up is enough a long, warm bath an extra checking account never so low down & dirty bladder support implant all of her mysterious ailments since backwards each dusk toward spring
the subtitles flew by and with them half the 'sundance' film first grandchild's twinkling blue eyes such joy spun left & right & extreme right the security of 'social security' four Mounted Policemen ambushed a nation weeps middle-east future back to square one of neolithic women single mom her single daughter now pregnant swollen daffodil buds on hold glasses and cups washed oh, for a good sleep . . . less pain late for court michael jackson in pajama bottoms & blazer on the frozen ground pigeons peck at seeds atlanta jailbird on the lam whose next hairs are numbered we mail out sympathy cards signed with love
despite the sorrow, forthcoming marriage of our youngest son 'honeymoon' to impeachment my desire Mr. Peterson moved onto 'death row' hard to fathom his smile an act of congress to make a further fool of itself * ah, for the life of a chickadee fluff up to warm in dense spruces muddy dandelions pieces of an ancient puzzle the poles are shifting will mariners navigate by the stars again? scattered everything beneath the rusty roof Good Friday the ache of a broken heart as she watches it snow he might have doubles like saddam the pope Parkinson's disease wears out body and soul she borrows my stick anti-stem cell relief the control-women's-bodies bunch
two hours of barefooted sun drizzles back to a slippery slope addicted to morphine so what . . . he's dying a thumb in the grave a thumb with the desire of april green 12 primulas in bloom still winter outside this that the other i don't even want to learn what i know notes in my diary maybe today they will call
* the 'dirty tricks' use of terri schiavo for political gains february 27-march 31 2005
LENGTHENING DAYS last heavy snowfall – lengthening days – wet dirt cows squelch in the mud past the horses in the meadow
John M. Bennett & Scott Helmes
INVISIBLE BUT HONEST invisible but honest daylily roots topped with solstice watercolors drying table chairs carpet a bouquet wind takes out the power in rooms i should know by heart Christmas afternoon tree hung with raindrops the infamous bc/ad calender an april birth five years before WA governor-elect leads 130 votes out of 3 million
all Ukraine exit polls give Yushchenko a major lead sympathy? tsunami i understand 'nature nature' do I look ashen? jaundiced? Jay says: you look like Mommy to me the feel of love an actor within 'queer as folk' a challenge met and mastered astronauts journey to the moon dependent on computers even those without Thailand against a scenic backdrop stacked bodies on the black market stolen health exchanging germs and kisses storm of confetti 2005! needed since 'forever' his mud-deep backhoe picture-perfect vegetables ready for Farmers' Market warm spell suspicious clothes on the line
a pirated cd in the mail 'libana' clears the air of closed doors diagnosis vaso vagal his opinions suck old buddy yak-yak a right-wing nominee forced on the world decisions reversed Mac back to the factory a 1-800 number on hold so long i forgot who i called and why guessing game: will it freeze? will it snow? almost barefoot the inside and the outside of a window long-winded when the word yes will do the creek ruined by silt a curve in the cliff toward a cement bridge freeway support arch homeless men huddle for warmth the big picture red and blue mix purple artless the good old usa hopefully my paintings have taken a quantum leap joyous swirls the photographer vocally admires ink spots in motion mid-january behind my eyes the feel of daisies quickly typed: It's Bpbbi's job to sneci yje stocks, jer plesdure tenncare dumped agency systems crashed by the scared fearless 'Aviator' followed by paparazzi down the red carpet a cold snap covers the ground Dec 25, 2004-Jan 17, 2005
what abundant sleet!
Ce lapovita! many carts full with fir trees
Carute pline cu brazi my first attempt
Prima-ncercare the hunters are coming back
Vanatorii se intorc hastily put out
Foc stins in graba - towards home listening to Catre
casa ascultand in the withered weeds
Ieburi uscate - at the edge of the road side
La marginea drumului Orient Express –
Orient Expres - sunk in dream, the little girl
Cufundata-n vis, fata dandelion fluffs
Puf de papadii waiting for my beloved guests
Asteptand musafirii the postman is ringing –
Suna postasul - she rushes up to water
Se repede sa ude melting icicles –
Turturi picurand - silence weighing hard over
Tacere apasatoare she decides to paint
Pictand cu verde suddenly stopping to write
Oprindu-ma brusc din scris after the sunset
Pe inserate New shoes are screeching
Scartait de pantofi noi *Romanian Mother’s Day is on March 8th [Sorry my web program does not offer the "hats and helmets" of the Romanian language. jr]
SENSE REPLENISH
don't say this sense of
sight
pens replenish
when now daily rituals are an act of
look at me as though
silence your purple morning drizzled
inside the beams
contraindications rise to
in the steamheat one grows
accustomed
coverlets deep in
my camera
this is why amended verbiage offers
UNTITLED on the immaculate lawn one twig Anzac morning - the day lilies still closed stiff breeze - horizontal flags all the way up the street not one face at a window against the wall of a house, two wagon wheels facing west the shrubs wind burnt on the cherry tree a shriveled leaf bird droppings mark the new haiku boulder river bank, a brass band rehearses 'pooper scooper' - jogger & dog "Walk on!" the command from an old lady replica *kauri dam - an empty bag of pineapple lumps the sails of a windmill turn steadily linked by a cobweb two letter boxes a jigsaw of firewood stacked against a bungalow too early for the drums & marches a cavalcade passes over the bridge * kauri - native tree much prized for its timber
free emoticons for your e-mail I click on the grouchy puss in and of itself nothing ruled in nothing ruled out too well-informed wouldn't know so much without eavesdropping definitions for us of japanese terms good grief Prince Harry's unseemly costume Nazi symbols should be banned two impeachments if only
professionals review mother nature nasty snow & cold a wicked wind art exhibit a homeless man really looks a 'geico' ad derides the cave people though godless and unmarried he says 'I'm certain' which means he is not i love war [sic] it'll last forever after my 12-year-old josh is drafted touted by Endless Vacations Pigeon Forge, TN lucky to stay in a ragged nest not a bit like those well-off crows breaking the prison mindset as well as the fast not rain anymore white prints travel from their gray cat through dusk colorless or black background for a colorful logo almost breathless after two or three two- or three-breath haiku no fee poetry reading open to the public
my daughter asks for a receipt when she pays back funds I advanced the buddy system kicks in rice defeats boxer face swollen & scarred Yushchenko takes oath of office in Ukraine ill himself she's ill too bleeding finally stops that know-it-all lab technician's blunt needle down the road some green to fix the road heading for Bachelor Mountain with eldest son to visit youngest son 60th year of auschwitz un's very 1st recognition support Wiesenthal Center people can still give living testimony a healthly respect for winter flat scared of rumsfeld full moon alert tonight are the planets aligned in my favor? early coffee five for website proofing good luck mm
agassi vs federer the australian open way too many miles ahead for every competition a winner and a loser small african clan three strings a hand -shaped cardboard a music Maid-Pro's new team hums as they clean warm snap while it lasted nothing warmed to the notion sundeck gardening goodbye to dead leaves Jan 17-27, 20 05
John M. Bennett & Jim Leftwich
LAW AND ORDER
Francine Porad Marlene Mountain the drama of law and order each HSA* Meeting minute planned almost a moment too soon the crow if you have any questions please don't hesitate to call me tv ad 'supplies are limited' a big evergreen to dc Group Health supports golden agers first on the list for flu shots in swirls of cold the shed door bangs undecided
free to go somewhere close farther if so inclined empty clothes big bonus trying his wings as a Hollywood agent you got the money honey bush/dick got the time to impeach the o-shaped mouth voodoo doll personalized a magical stream of light through the window never opened thirty acres Botanical Gardens in Christmas glitter are you washed in the blood in the soul-cleansing blood of the lamb ** insurgents dead poetry crooned to an ailing Siamese old haiku out of style in japan with no way to know a pleasant guess look at this! summer bronze set off by white middies the red in my life squeezed from 'nature nature' into a tube round table set for ten one small poinsettia centerpiece picture-perfect golf course weeping willows sway with the wind dioxin confirmed the opposition leader opposed bride: a stripper/former lesbian/pregnant with another man's child in front of a microphone the drought 'tag it and bag it' danger looms for Social Security first snow a deficit that lasts forever gossip 'good kids' allowed to listen taught never to correct snatched a fetus from her womb in missouri although protected by parents a bewildered glance from Santa's lap at risk for severe pain at risk with celebrex this morning's lineup of pills plus two Mandarin oranges in segments a poem or two a day
lost in the shuffle of seasons black plastic over a garden to come geraniums in bloom still predictions of a severe winter beyond the warming kitchen the thermometer alone at dawn teary eyes above the nose mask will they be loved again soldiers less than themselves greeting air a kiss to the left kiss to the right
* Haiku Society of America
** excerpt from a Protestant hymn
Nov 29-Dec 24, 2004
IN THE MOMENT in the moment late monthly bills to pay in a moment vacation condo five clocks set accurately shaped like icicles and stuck to the frozen eaves needles of pine seedlings poke through snow after one and a half 'sundance' films the sun matures dark inky sky aglow with stars
Sunriver casts its spell by day two plotting a return prosecutor with 9 kids vs an accused pedophile lurid stories on NYPD Blue, Law & Order and CSI Miami surrounded by tanks another false freedom giddy wine-drinking sweethearts my date? my grandson I envy his him and me by the house on a flat plane subdivision pens, sticks and brushes record construction decades of iris overthrown the leafless poplars as I recall no problem with sex just not often enough encore a chance to boo dubya tonight resort golf course closed even without the usual frost cover light rain about the size of it
not a shadow of doubt the groundhog didn't waste its time Indian legend close friends Owl and Raven just people capture lead around massacre just people divided road ahead policemen waiting well-established daylilies well-established root tangle time to 'RAM your ROM' computer catch-up part of the problem the ancient refrigerator [a winter kigo] cell phone hums 'Can you hear me now?' local rottweilers bark loose again mid-month closes in tax forms for the first draft I use a pencil a jumble of numbers in the checkbook our moon still with us my parents' graves cold more keenly felt
found headstone: Husband, Dad, Granddad, Great-granddad, Uncle the pope lingers with a new language of garble how to turn the dream vision from bygone years into a painting 'the new normal' then post-the new normal then neo- Academy Award movies one after another all day in my nightgown seems forever how long a war seems Jan 28-Feb 10, 2005
HATS & SCARVES
Patricia Prime
Catherine Mair
we don crotched hats to brave the wind tree surgeon - he gauges the tree's size show home - I admire the master bedroom left behind in still water, the punga log climbing the bank, a man with his bucket of pebbles winding up to the diving ledge - worn track stalks of toi-toi twisted by the gale Casey splashes - her owner's fretful call halfway - the swish of a horse's tail earth compactor 's teeth clogged with clay 360 degree turn of the digger - the workman waves tangle of roots in piles of sub-soil - our old farm
Slowly the crickets After Hurricane Rural carrier Vietnam vet – My jacket for you Cop cooing Out there the clouds In the shaman's vaudeville revival In the Gay Parade Thanksgiving freeze Tofu - the shape Rockettes Ex can-can dancer – Modern-day apostle Fork in the road – From a package Look a flying saucer Oriental figurine The cleaning lady's bucket Jack and Jill First day of spring – three naked dandelions The muse on my locket Mudbug Festival Tuna salad – New moon – All night I lie awake – The right side Left right left – Morning walk Huckleberry Highway Key in the lock Husband out of work – Booming economy Sending George Bush * after George Swede
OLD HOUND ASLEEP 1. old hound asleep 2. cool, sunset walk 3. moon through thin fog 4. dawn breaks across the lake 5. a load of firewood 6. snow-ribboned roads 7. jungle light 8. between rainforest peaks 9. miscarriage 10. in the next life they decide 11. honeymoon cruise 12. on the strip in a new car 13. lilacs on her lap 14. haze...the hills 15. fiddleheads 16. Bluegrass Festival 17. fields of purple 18. moon in a pail 19. lighting the fire 20. paler day by day 21. chill in the air 22. frost flowers on the window 23. if only I had 24. offered posthumously 25. time heals 26. polishing wood 27. tulips tighter and tighter 28. ice cracking up 29. white of her hips 30. growing old together 31. with her in the shower 32. eye to eye they tango 33. shine of her black shoes 34. Date Line crossing 35. U.S. Customs 36. sweeping the full moon 37. beneath its boughs 38. under her double-ring quilt 39. answering her call 40. a moth's all-consuming passion 41. kissing his photo 42. feet braced on the gunwale 43. force nine gale 44. throughout the Middle-East 45. butchered camels 46. as the conductor enters 47. monastery gates 48. the orange orchids in the fields? 49. we spend all night 50. a "yes" in the darkness 51. waking happy 52. streams of incense carry 53. last day of his vigil 54. four nights from Halloween 55. purple chrysanthemums 56 where the bulbs were planted 57. in the canal 58. her lover's head in her lap 59. cathedral bells 60. Taking sanctuary 61. street persons smile 62. on the lawn a robin 63. just its head 64. thinking of their contretemps 65. looking up 66. a cardinal gorges 67. anniversary 68. I think not about my youth 69. marking time 70. no particular key 71. heading downhill 72. merganser pair 73. jostling for grubs 74. our turn to gape 75. bullring gallery 76. in Monteverde 77. green tea 78. afterwards they both have 79. she opens the window 80. peering between the curtains 81. dawn dew 82. behind the guide 83. a line of Canadas 84. from the deck his eyes scan 85. distinctly green 86. no signs of dormancy 87. skating party 88. his five-strand braid swings 89. steady plod 90. as the Red Baron 91. Remembrance Day 92. the train home for Thanksgiving 93. beyond the woodlands 94. parked near the old growth 95. in full bloom 96. the first real sunshine 97. vernal equinox 98. brightness of Easter 99. new front door pane 100. someone rings October 3, 2003 - December 8, 2004
FOREST OF DREAMS Part 1 - Little Red Riding Hood a curl of chimney smoke cloak of red
crossing the river she follows the firefly an owl hoots - another snickers
gnarl of saliva emerald eyes gleam unleashed from hell
her hastening step a crush of pine needles twigs reach out to touch
groan of door butterfly-stitch drips a pulp
crime scene tape "lost in the woods, huh? coarse laughter
Part 2 - 'Briar Rose' spins the wheel a witch's cackle 'hush now baby girl'
the legend grows beauty to be roused child's sword
piercing stillness only silence crossing earth and water
after the brambles the creak of a leather jacket flies stopped in flight
curtain of velvet drift sunbeams of dust lips like shaded cherry
porcelain arms open as if spellbound again the swirl of waltzes
22/01/'05 to 21/02/'05
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