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My Love is Building a Building
In anticipation of Valentine’s Day, here is one of the best (in my humble opinion) love poems ever written by the often wacky, always unique E. E. Cummings. The text of the poem is printed below. my love is building a building around you, a frail slippery house, a strong fragile house (beginning at the…
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David Reads “A Supermarket California,” by Allen Ginsberg
For the printed version of the text I will direct you to Poetryarchive.org where you can also hear Ginsberg’s reading. Um… no, I still haven’t listened to it yet. The very idea is intimidating. And if you’d like to know more about the movie Howl, check out this article at SlashFilm. If you are in…
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One Art, by Elizabeth Bishop
This is one of my favorite poems, and while Elizabeth Bishop has fun with the French Villanelle form, I have a little fun at the expense of my Irish brother, Vincent.
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Keeping Things Whole, a poem by Mark Strand
Keeping Things Whole by Mark Strand In a field I am the absence of field This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing. When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body’s been. We all have reasons for moving.…
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Signs, Signs, Everywhere a Sign
There are some sings that Micah and I took pictures of recently. We need to send these to PassiveAgressiveNotes.com or the Fail Blog. Now, just how confident would you be seeing this on the bathroom door when you take your kids out for Pizza? Some of you locals might recognize this! Or how about this…
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Nightclub, by Billy Collins
Read from my place of employment during our last hour on a very slow January night. Well, last night, in fact.
