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Tuesday, June 07, 2005

 

"By the end of the year, more than 500 detainees of around 35 nationalities continued to be held without charge or trial at the US naval base in Guantánamo Bay..." -- Tim Morris at Optative Mood, quoting Amnesty International. Tim's writing on the Bushbag weirdness with words ... . Go Tim!

And do check out more of what Amnesty International has to say here.


chris at 5:54 PM |

 

from Shanna Compton : *


Post-Texas Expressive Heat


Your mother put a
fan in the oven,
he said, to cool
it down. That's right
the door is open
and on it sits
a little fan, blowing.

I am a little
fan, she says, an
ardent fan, a big
fan of yours. Whew.

(2)


*


Tumble in November


Witness this rapid gingering,
the jasmine tea green
and apple flesh creamy,
the tender risk of
paper sack to finger.
Yet we may shop
forever at the farmer's
stand nearby, your soul
(I know) a flue
opened upward and parboiled
pretty. It's true I
know you. You're just
alike to me, what
the laundromat girl (chic
doll she) can't see.

(16)




* Shanna Compton, Down Spooky. 2nd printing. Half Empty/Half Full, 2004.


~~~~~~~~~~poems copyright of Shanna Compton~~~~~~~ o~o/ ~~~~


chris at 5:15 PM |

 

from Kenneth Burke:

Since war and action are both parts of a graded series, having cruelty and vengence at one end and the highest manifestations of thought and sympathy at the other, I see no logical necessity for selecting the dyslogistic choice of the Nietzscheans as descriptive of the series' essence. Dyslogy itself can be considered as but the deterioration of eulogy, a kind of regrettable by-product (for in the inverted alchemy of this "imperfect world" much gold id eventually transformed into base metal). Man lives by purpose--and purpose is basically _preference_. Hence, where we have an even choice between conversion downwards and conversion upwards, who would feel logically obliged to select the direction which implied the destruction of human society. ... or we might choose such words as _cooperation_ and _communication_ ... .

(235-236)


* Kenneth Burke, "The Search for Motives," Permanence and Change, New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1954.


chris at 4:52 PM |

Monday, June 06, 2005

 

... this is one of those areas of human experience about which I had previously chosen to remain willfully ignorant. That's why I'm hoping you'll stick with me long enough to hear me out on this again today -- and occasionally in the future -- when the natural inclination might be to look away to avoid seeing something that we might prefer not to know. People in Diane's situation could use a little more understanding from the rest of us.
--Dave Brown, columnist at the Chicago Sun Times--June 5, 2005, "Dave or Diane: Being Different [Is] No Reason for Guilt." *



* Forwarded to Texfiles by kari edwards : )

o~o/


chris at 7:33 PM |

 





from George Oppen : *


Psalm

        Veritas sequitor...


In the small beauty of the forest
In wild deer bedding down--
That they are there!

          Their eyes
Effortless, the soft lips
Nuzzle and the alien small teeth
Tear at the grass

          The roots of it
Dangle from their mouths
Scattering earth in the strange woods.
They who are there.

          Their paths
Nibbled thru the fields, the leaves that shade them
Hang in the distances
Of sun

          The small nouns
Crying faith
In this in which the wild deer
Startle, and stare out.


(836)




* George Oppen, "Psalm," in Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, Vol 1. Eds. Jahan Ramanzani, Richard Ellman, Robert O'Clair. Norton, 2003.


chris at 1:57 PM |

Thursday, June 02, 2005

 


--Tatangaya (Hornet) Katsina


from Perspectives of Pueblo Folk:


The Hopi way of looking at the universe is quite different from our own and accounts for much in Hopi culture and personality which may seem strange to us. It shows that the conception of change in linear, cause-and-effect terms, common among us is absent in the thinking of these people, who see life in terms of interrelated, multi-manifested wholes in the process of metamorphosis, each according to its own mode, rhythm and tempo. Moreover, the Hopi concept of the balanced, correlative interdependence of the manifold aspects of reality excludes an arbitrary over-all dual division, such as that which structures our own thinking and forms the basis for our traditional ethical concept of the competing forces of good and evil. Duality in the Hopi world view exists only insofar as it represents two correlates in a reciprocally balanced universal scheme, and each correlate is conceived as an indispensable part of the whole, neither one being essentially subordinate to the other. --Laura Thompson and Alice Joseph, The Hopi Way (Haskell Institute, N.S. Indian Service, Laurever, Kansas)


chris at 2:59 PM |

 

I see there is an intriguing call for poetry submissions at Little Emerson. Might be interesting to try this one out, eh?


chris at 2:54 PM |

 


-- Ft. Wingate ruin, NM

from Cibecue Apache testimonial on singing chants to sources of power: *

I heard it that some of these people who own it (power) just talk to it. I don't believe it, what they say. Our songs come from those things (the powers) and go back to them when we sing them. They give the songs to people and we give them back. That way, a power knows you are trying to tell it something. It knows that when it hears songs. That is why these people sing at dances. When a power hears its songs then it will want to listen. If you don't sing songs, a power won't know where to find you, it won't want to work with you.


*unnamed Apache commenter, Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology: The Cibecue Apache, ed. Keith Basso. Holt, Rhinehart, Winston, 1970.


chris at 12:08 PM |

Wednesday, June 01, 2005

 




from project: 22 lines


night driving engine whine
on headlights front & mirrored

highway 89 shoulder dust
Jerome sign blur you say

morning's a one-cloud-sky
aphids sucking
leaf juice
& purple scribble

dianthus pollen
footprints turning heat flat
as over-opinionated newsmen

who is capturing willow
branches for trimming while they float
feathering breeze origins
& horseflies

she was eleven
the year that robin
strangled in discarded
yarn blown tangling
into the lilac Vs

ownership makes the animal
salable




--cm

o~o/


 

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