tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79172104001497079542024-03-25T07:06:50.576-07:00Leaf Garden PressAn independent press that publishes poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and visual arts.Leaf Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00171931413638449891noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7917210400149707954.post-67243513230607844062018-07-09T18:02:00.000-07:002018-07-09T18:02:41.394-07:00Tigers in the Tall Grass, Panthers in the Street by Ryan Quinn Flanagan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Tigers in the Tall Grass, Panthers in the Street</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><i>a full-length poetry collection</i></span></div>
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Leaf Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00171931413638449891noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7917210400149707954.post-80492469145653077702018-01-17T23:04:00.002-08:002018-01-17T23:04:30.526-08:00Two Books by Pyotr Patrushev<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">In association with Peganum Books, Leaf Garden Press is proud to simultaneously present two books from the same author. From the late Pyotr Patrushev comes two extremely insightful volumes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">First, <i><a href="https://leafgardenpress.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-transcendent-ape-by-pyotr-patrushev.html">The Transcendent Ape</a>, </i>a study of evolution and the human condition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Second, <i><a href="https://leafgardenpress.blogspot.com/2018/01/now-available-from-leaf-garden-press-in.html">Buddha's Balalaika</a>, </i>a collection of his humorous satire, essays, reflection on life in Russia, and his poetry all in one place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">For those unfamiliar with Pyotr, I strongly recommend introducing yourself by watching a short documentary series about his swim from the Soviet Union to Turkey in search of his freedom. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">And of course, pick up these books and </span><i style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://leafgardenpress.blogspot.com/2014/08/project-nirvana-how-war-on-drugs-was.html">Project Nirvana: How The War On Drugs Was Won</a>, </i><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">a novel published by Leaf Garden Press a few years back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">As I wheel her about hoping for trust </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">her occasional smile </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">becomes conversion enough </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">to compassion bolder than religion.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">When I greet her parents, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">their faces flexing through the strain </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">of compromise and exigency,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I hear no claim from them of anything final,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">no answer beyond unconditional care, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">having long ago accepted their daughter’s tantrums,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">vastness of loss, memories of her fall,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">the bleak poems she scrawls by candle light. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">When alone again she shares a rare confession.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Messengers in the stars </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">preach love will not conquer ignorance. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">She admits to not always believing those stars.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Later, we watch on television </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">silken limbs of ice skaters spinning.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">How she laughs until in tears</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">when my left shoe sticks to gum on the floor.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I expect her to say that now I know how she feels.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">There is no such remark, only long silence.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">She asks, at last, if I will roll her to bed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">She wants to dream of cutting a figure eight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In his pocket, in his hand</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">trust a man</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">who fears a blade</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">he adores.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">A man who fathers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">the neighborhood</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">when others cannot.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">With the largest hands</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">you’ve ever seen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">and a laugh that scares you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">more than the basement</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">stairs at night.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Radiant, sanguine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">smiling man who fills</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">the puny galaxies</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">of your boyhood ambition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">We returned</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">from a fishing trip</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">in Gloucester</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">with a trash barrel</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">full of haddock and cod.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I climbed into his truck</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">tried to pull it out.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">His sea-filled eyes gleamed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">He lifted that barrel</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">as if it was empty.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Let me drag it with him</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">to a backyard table.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Let me help. Me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">of all people</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">cleaning fish, dodging</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">flies in the sun</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">American ingenuity, provides a ROYGBIV, the entire bell-space of probability. End result? Utter stasis. Beating hearts, yearning souls, anxious fight fans, angry citizens, don’t like that at all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">CEE’s latest, <i>Ironclad Beta For The Coming PPV</i>, gives us The Battle Royale of our first Civil War, Monitor vs. Merrimac, iconography from a twain nation, as test run. Mock-up. First take and first rehearsal. What happens when differing equals, unbridled, meet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The dark and terrible visage of Today’s Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean, portends horrors, but beyond her eyes, 29 representations of vintage postcards—most, The Battle of Hampton Roads, once heralded as “the historical event most often depicted.” These and others, each set against the punching verse of CEE, provide perspective to the Pay-Per-View of our gathering storm. Visual antiquity, giving each in turn a thousand words, before the poet, counterpointing, provides his. Utilizing the most famous stalemate in American history, our object lesson, is “equality”--its elasticity, its puzzle and riddle. Dealt with, via post-Gilded Age imagery and post-80’s cynicism. Heraldry, deeply personal, thrown as carnival barker’s opinion…and as future choice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Unwinnable slaughter, no matter demo, proto, Crash Test Armies, beckons, Three-Card Monte. <i>Ironclad Beta For The Coming PPV</i>, is a chalk talk of our Past, demonstrating the best-case scenario for the Cold War of Two Americas: an inept, drunken bar fight between 1862 Battlebots. Colorful, existential, beautiful, snarky, Edwardian and Milleresque. High drama. A tribute to Fight Night. A cautionary tale. Jeer and dare. Poet Knows Best.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the final throwdown, at the last bell, what stays disaster, is but personal, human restraint. As ever, the poet holds little hope for Man, but presents his analysis, his suggestions, in <i>Ironclad Beta For The Coming PPV</i>, a Special Feature (with Easter eggs!), for our very last Main Event.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>“Hey, CEE…are you part of the solution, or part of the problem?”</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>“I’m part of the problem…but, at least I’ll tell you what The Solution, is.”</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>—CEE, from “The Language of Imagination”, 2011, Luver.com</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Merrimac blew the mightiest men o’ war</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To tatters, at Hampton Roads</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A few hours later,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Cabinet Room is in flip-out mode</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It’s Armageddon, End of Day, End of the World</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It’s War of the Worlds, and the Confederates</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Own a Martian fighting machine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That could make the Union disappear</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In a lot of lights</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Richard Burton narrating</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As “Forever Autumn” blats sadly,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Merrimac rearing up all Toho,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“REEEE-eeAHHII-EeeaaAAH…!!”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Top American sober politicos, all ready go peepee</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Disgusting, annoying</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Me no get</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But, then again,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When I got up on 9/11 and played my messages,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I snorted, erased them, and went back to sleep</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When comparison gives way to contrast,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Screw what you’ve been fed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That’s when the grapeshot</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That’s when Norman Vincent Peale, takes a piss break</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And <i>Star Wars</i> and <i>Star Trek</i> fans</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Are WWE, faces</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Tastes great!, Less filling!”, an elbow joke to teach</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Potatoes or stuffing, an area where a person’s</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That’s the Unfriend, nonfriend, in social tickle of faces,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Who ARE You?!” Other asks Other as anOther</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Asks” being PC for “throwing down, Harley dude”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Diversity, has an Emotional Seating Capacity of </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One (1)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Two (2) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">gods, is intolerable</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">anOther, from motherboards, is an “opponent”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If It isn’t,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Y2K, didn’t, to our knowledge, destroy the world. But for the demise of the VHS format, neither did the 21st Century shepherd in a New Age, on cue. Media, the merchants and power brokers told us so, but if one paid attention, 2000 was 1999 misspelled.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Likewise, the blitz of a “changed”, “renewed”, “happenin’” America of Peter Max, was never born free, New Year’s morn, 1970. Midwifed, but never birthed. Commercial television screaming even its colors, merely said so. LOUD. REPEATED. B.F. Skinner, for a divided nation. Media, power, persuasion, ‘said’. And, Cold War Americans eased down a road chosen for, not by We The People.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">CEE, enigmatic street poet, in <i><b>The Lost Religion of Men (All Bob is Clemente)</b></i>, gives us exposition of rude, personal experience: an 8-year old, falling asleep in the land of alpha and home of the nuclear family, awakened bagpipe, into “change” as a Jedi mind trick. “Things Are Different.” The strength testers and arms of might, have gone. No protest. No debate. It’s already happened, Joe Pyne. You fell asleep, and these former things passed away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>The Lost Religion of Men</b></i>, sports dreamy and dividing ca. 1969 period pieces, shot through perspectives on a vintage Golden Arm arcade machine. Unwilling to view culture shaped as anything but conceded mores, CEE gives us The Ways and Manner of Old as a forced hand, mighty men outside the Self Help section, brutal dispassion. Soviet terror, as daily accepted. Joe Frazier as one-man buzzsaw, nodded at with pride. Vengeful woman as machine-girl released. At turns, angry fists beat as enemy a world of no choice as child-sensitive imagery speaks four-color, of Valhalla denied. In <b><i>The Lost Religion of Men</i></b>, Guardsmen sight students along the barrel as Unitas fades back, slomo, to trumpets unheard. From his hermitage, the poet tells us for the millionth time, to think for ourselves. To reject human mechanization, even as suggested. That “individual”, the known, pioneer ideal, is up to each. No other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mickey Mantle as legend, doesn’t roll up like a poster. Hardhat culture doesn’t wither before hair and daisies, because someone clapped hands. Fonts frivolous and social marketing games, are tools. Behaviorism has power, only if human persons permit.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“It’s over; now, we’re Here.”</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">No, we aren’t. We’re as Establishment as we wanna be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>“Alpha”<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>(Gamma-alpha-mu-alpha sigma-alpha-sigma)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And, I blow the tight-jawed SOB<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Into the street, dead<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">No, I’m a crazy asshole<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Default: COP<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And, I brain the humanimal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With a semi-pro bat, keep swinging<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">No, I’m a psycho<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I kick his ass in the parking lot<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Of a gangland watering hole<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But don’t stop at first blood,
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">No mumble-sorry, crummy Eastwood<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">No, I’m a dangerous thing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There isn’t any Defeating The Myth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Of evo-psych lie creature<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You can’t rend him from his
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You just have to be silent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Allow fake WBA belt to grace<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fake champ’s whatheis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Figuring, hoping<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rape-rape, rape-itty raperape,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Because he killed his Her, anyway<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Or he’s one looking wise and
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Her, too, and proud<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">About all the erections that are
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dishwashing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Metropolitans<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That’s their actual name<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">20<sup>th</sup> Century
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Trying to be Abner Doubleday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nodding, Father Time, at kids’
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The N.Y. Metropolitans<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Casey” ‘tache, dark wooden hanger<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Gilded Age slang and flat cap<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Strong, the way Choynski was
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Patina’d hard, still frightening
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Respected as strolling greatness,
Depression<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Deathbed, must wheezes, Korean
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And, it is The Space Age<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And clowns have eyes rolling Vegas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Until a miracle no one saw coming,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Like the pipeline of farm system<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Giving out, dark miracle, on the
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And tradition, legacy, antiquity<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Became just that, and The Pyramids<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rented lesser and aging, harmed
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Stand field, Round Table after
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lancelot’s eye is not dimmed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He sees it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He gets it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">New World, fun for horns blaring<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As in, <i>OH! New World! Open the wrapper!</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">He
discovered the cure for universal cancer but mislaid his formulas. A
preposterous poker-faced girlfriend said she wanted to have his baby & he
replaced her with a cracked mirror. He predicted the world would end three
minutes after it did. His theory of time: We're older than we think. What's
called living is really the act of remembering ourselves in slow motion. I'm
merely stuck on STOP. At the age of eight, his mother gave him a red rubber
ball that bounced once & never came down. She said God works in mysterious
ways. The ball returned years later in the form of a meteorite that nearly
killed him. He went blank, walked away with an alter-ego, bits of rock lodged
between its teeth. The traumas of his early years formed lapses in his
lovemaking. He woke up lonely not recognizing himself in reflections. Dogs
stole his shoelaces. He saved an archbishop from a dangerous fall by using his
body as a canopy of impersonal bones & tissues. After the bishop thanked
him, promised him a seat in heaven, they became each other. The world was a
globe of interchangeable parts that never quite added up. He tried reassembling
his life from 16 track tapes & hit replay. He lost track of the time. The
tapes looped endlessly & erased him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It took me
over three years to get to the point where I could read anything I wrote about
you, but I did it. I recently sorted through those writings (some of them are
nearly seven years old now). I hope you know that outside of my wife and my
children, I would be hard pressed to find another being on this planet who has
touched and shaped my life as much as you did in your too short thirty-six
years on this Earth. And even after you’ve passed, dealing with your death has
greatly impacted who I am and who I want to become. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As I sorted
through my files, I was amazed at how much I had actually documented in one way
or another. I was amazed at how much I either wrote directly about you in poems
and essays, or how your battle with Ulcerative Colitis and the loss that battle
entailed affected my fiction. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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saddened by how much I missed in my writings. You were such a beautiful soul.
In no way do these jottings cover everything you went through, and no way do
they even begin to encompass who you were. I’m so sorry for that. I also
apologize for not attempting to give you the collection you deserve; I don’t
have the emotional energy to attempt that task. It’s daunting. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is
simply a collection of poems, fiction, and essays that I wrote alongside your
heartbreaking journey to cope with what was happening to you at that specific moment
in time. It was my attempt to wrap my head around what was transpiring.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I’ll be
honest with you; I’m not really sure why I’m doing this. I’d like to tell
myself that putting all of these writings together will give those who knew you
a taste of what you had to go through during the last few, rough years of your
life. You would be surprised at how many people have contacted me through Facebook
saying something like, <i>I just heard...</i>,
or <i>I just found out...</i> Some of these
messages are from people whom I never knew, and the gist of most of our
conversations or messages were always about how you helped them during a rough
spot in their life, or how they really looked up to you, or what a beautiful
spirit you had. I’m not sure my reasons for putting this together are that
altruistic. I think I just want to hang out with you, and I’ll even take the
bad times you went through over not having you here at all. Selfish? Yes. You
know that if I could, I would never bring you back alive just to suffer. I just
miss you is all.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He is the author of Hank and Jules, of a collection of short stories published by Kill the Middleman Press; <i>Salt Creek Anthology</i>, a collection of micro-fiction published by Chicago Center for Literature and Photography; the fierce crackle of fragile wings, a collection of poetry published by Six Gallery Press; as well as two poetry chapbooks - <i>The Sagging: Spirits and Skin</i>, and<i> Decay</i>, both published by Propaganda Press.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>SWIMMING WITHOUT WATER</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Once again crashing</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">deep into soil where</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">you grab fistfuls of clay</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">and mold figures</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">as you fall further,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">deeper. Magma pulls,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">calling your body weight</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">almost by name, chanting</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">grinding, gravitational songs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">that slowly drive you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">richly insane just before</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">you burn in your mother’s</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">deep red heart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>HERACLITUS’ STREAM</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Wading back</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">into the stream</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">that is time,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">you notice</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">it’s not the stream</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">you left days ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It’s colder, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">for starters,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and messier.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The weight of</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">your father on your shoulders</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">forces your feet deeper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It will take</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">some getting used to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Have they got me finally?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The prison of academia.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The green ivy wine and cheese.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">More letters after your name</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Last week </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">I found myself with a red sharpie</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">in a downtown bus terminal</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">bathroom stall</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">editing the grammar</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">and punctuation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">When I was done and wiped </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">and flushed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">I went from stall </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">to stall.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">An unpaid internship I convinced myself.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">There is something terribly wrong with me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The underwear drawer full of homemade </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">ninja stars.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">My many soapbox readings of Whitman</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">to all my stuffed animals.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The bald head of Lenin so I can rub it for good luck…</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">They have taken my driver’s license away</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">and I can hardly blame them</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">for that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A crash</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">your college</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">roommates dead</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> then dawn</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">(a fucked </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">dream).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The caps you shared</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">crept into it</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">waking you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Months later, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">a highway in </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Virginia</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">you cannot be</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">still</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">knowing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">you can know. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The bus heads</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">south</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">and more south</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">a limping old man</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">settles beside you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">speaking</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">English with diffidence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A woman screams.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>HOWIE GOOD's </b>latest book of poetry is <i>The Complete Absence of Twilight</i> (2014) from MadHat Press. He co-edits <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/whiteknucklepresscom/" target="_blank">White Knuckle Press</a> with Dale Wisely, who does most of the real work. Find more on his blog, <a href="http://apocalypsemambo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Apocalypse Mambo.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">In the dying days of the Soviet empire, a Russian scientist decides to save the natives of Kamchatka from alcohol-related extinction by replacing vodka with a psychedelic mushroom. This experiment was quickly terminated by the Party. In <i>Project Nirvana</i>, Pyotr Patrushev extrapolates these true events into a plot that is now more relevant than ever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A kidnapped Indian guru becoming a chess wizard, sexy Russian spy Anna seducing American security expert Richard Snowden, state-controlled drugs enhancing productivity when used with meditation... this and much more provide a practical recipe for reaching world peace while simultaneously ending the futile war on drugs... a satire with cleverly concealed thought memes that will guide social and drug reform world-wide for years to come.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">He is the author of 4 books: <i>Project Nirvana</i>, <i>Sentenced to Death</i>, a memoir about his escape from Russia to Turkey (published in Russia in 2005), <i>The Transcendent Ape</i> (forthcoming from Leaf Garden Press), and <i>Buddha's Balalaika</i> (collected writings 1964-2014). Find him on the web at </span><span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><u><a href="http://pyotr-patrushev.com/">http://pyotr-patrushev.com/</a></u></span></div>
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Leaf Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00171931413638449891noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7917210400149707954.post-8670734063739900052014-07-25T14:28:00.003-07:002014-07-30T13:45:56.514-07:00Keepers Meet Questing Eyes by John Michael Flynn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Wedding In October</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">, </span><br />
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Where her weary sneakers rest.<br />
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She says the world is fading fast,<br />
Vast empty nest of illusion<br />
Where the writers fall into<br />
Dead wells of cynicism,<br />
Too many rejection slips,<br />
Said she once decorated the<br />
Walls of her room with<br />
‘No-thank-you’s.’<br />
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I asked her what she wrote about,<br />
She said dead presidents,<br />
The speeches they never gave.<br />
Sketches of conversation,<br />
Seemingly falling into the open wound<br />
Of the universe, she said <br />
She grabs all the lone, used syllables<br />
Before they are swallowed.<br />
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She said some nights<br />
She cuts the stars loose,<br />
Watches them fall across<br />
Roofs of shingle and trailer tin,<br />
Just to have something to write about.<br />
Said Anne Sexton would have been proud,<br />
Her poet hands maneuvering the scene<br />
Of Vincent, gluing Sylvia back to the scene.<br />
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And when I asked her<br />
Why she wrote, she smiled<br />
And said the words of her notebook,<br />
Though obsolete as they may seem,<br />
Were the threads that stitch<br />
The world together.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This is the moment<br />
When everything in my world<br />
Boils down to one car ride.<br />
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All the lights of the universe<br />
Were slowly disappearing,<br />
The Gods of the sky<br />
Turning the stars on,<br />
One by one.<br />
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You turned to me,<br />
Silhouette boy of night vision<br />
And too much grit between your fingers,<br />
And asked me what was in a poem.<br />
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How can one verbalize<br />
That words are a juxtaposition<br />
Of moods, memories, stolen moments<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When a strange boy has her knee<br />
Knotted between the crook of his palm,<br />
Kneading the flesh like dough?<br />
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This is a sort of moment<br />
When all those unmarked postcards,<br />
The parties you never got invited to,<br />
The presents from friends who never came,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Graduation programs and county fair pamphlets<br />
Twirl down and about like unnecessary graffiti.<br />
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Tears, words, impalement of moon girth,<br />
Like little white checks on a chess board,<br />
All the important things I have to say<br />
Stick themselves in the mud,<br />
A playground fort of unshed annihilation.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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