Jan 25, 2010
expiring
some poems need to die. or at least not follow you around forever. they need a time-line, and end-date. and this is why i like what ana c. is doing. she is RAD! and i was bashful about the idea at first but today while i was running i got a bit brave and thought that maybe it'd be a good thing to do... to let a poem gain mortality. it will expire. they all will expire. these are poems about expiring. i am number 30. you should be number 31. my fair rebecca is number 20. everyone is fair and wonderful: a number counting toward the end. submit.
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A great idea here, Angela and Ana C's blog is 'awesome', to use a youthful expression, the sort my daughters might use.
I have no poems to put to rest, though I wish I did. Maybe I need to dream one up.
This is a really interesting idea. And strangely, today I was thinking about lines/words I need to try to retire (or at least let rest).
Certain lines try to sneak their way back in...I want them to at least take a break :). The one that almost always comes crawling back to me (even as I wrote my Storialist poem for tomorrow morning)---"Constellations recede. The placement of trees/becomes harder to recall."
It's hard to let go of these things.
Love it. I'm glad you wrote it and I'm glad you posted it. Milk poems are important. I say awesome all the time and I mean it.
Awesome.
xox
oh elisabeth, please do! or a poem you don't want to have any repercussions from... the feared FAMILY poem. :)
ana c is awesome! i'm glad you checked her out.
storialist- i'd love to see one of your pieces there! i was thinking the project is very much a piece of time-based artwork. i love the rejection of posterity.
personally, i love all your lines. "the placement of trees/ becomes harder to recall" wakes up a deep sad longing in me. in that good way.
ebecca- YOU'RE awesome! and i just couldn't pass on the opportunity to post my work next to yours even if i don't deserve it or have earned it. any excuse to rub shoulders with a poet/artist/human of your caliber is one i will take. thank you for reading it. you're awesome and i mean it. ;)
love
angela
Spilt is such a lovely poem, Angela, and so perfect for Ana's site. I'm so glad you did it.
thank you, cami! (blushing) yay! and i'm so happy to be in such good company: YOU!!!!!! :D
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