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Octubre 02, 2005
we arrived at Brenda's book party just as Lynn (Hejinian? it was hard to tell, she had a pair of big brown glasses on) was asking some very difficult questions and I thought of some of you defending theses.
and yet the answers came easily to B.
She said it took six months just to order them and still she thinks of them as marbled, that you can read them in any order. She said each line stands alone (which you will appreciate more when you see how much black and white is on each page.)
When she was done answering all the questions Bob told everyone that we ought to rearrange ourselves so that more people could hear better which was my cue to stand up and step over some very annoying people who thought they had to laugh out loud at every one of B's poetry jokes. And then I realized only natural thing for me to do was sit down under the table with the veggie platters. This is what it is to be a very small poet: you sit under the table among the clearance books and laugh silently, to yourself.
She said the seamstress is knitting together the clouds, a seamstress: a maker against war. A maker against the war, as if, well, a certain other maker is otherwise occupied. (no real pun intended.)
I should tell you that B memorized the 23rd psalm as a child but rewrote it more recently-it is on page 14 and right before she read it she said "The Bible needs a little rewriting as an epic." I congratulated myself for not taking offense when she insists each time I talk to her that I need my MFA, if only so I can rewrite my poems. she wears a cross and a Figa on one chain around her neck, she said the Figa "is kind of a fuck you to the devil."
But the favorite poem today, before I go stand in a long line for Communion Sundaes intinction, is the poem called "White Fir Description" because I usually hate white fir trees but I have heard God's forgiveness is for everyone.
help yourself | By crymytinyflood | 09:48 AM
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