David Carradine

“If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.” – David Carradine (12-8-1936 – 6-3-2009)

Learn it by Heart

“The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.” – George Steiner Questions: What are the differences between learning by heart and learning by brain? How do [...]

anti-socialmedian (#1)

* * how to boil fragments of a day’s overflow the plans stuffed the oven yet as we spoke of this and every-something ended up hanging up awaiting that once more last chance to spill the plan of how this day could unfold collapse and blossom * *

A Ghoul (tanka #43), Passive (tanka #7)

Dreams covered in phlegm shivering night, eyes pried shut to keep out the ghouls that dance outside your window and scratch their eyes out back in However, you move position yourself again like a sinner on a ship of screaming shadows lost at sea drowning daily

On the Margin of Our Graspable Self: Epigrams and Aphorisms

It is possible, that the gust of a new life bursts into your zone of the expected, thus tearing all of your fragmentary accomplishments to bits. At home, too long, with words and words, piling up like some kind of garbage heap – yet, you throw yourself all too willingly into the heap, hoping to [...]

Haiku: An Ode to the Listless (in six fragments)

blinking jabs of glass like icy tendrils sucking out to nowhere again * to disintegrate in the flood of updated trash is where this is * wire encircled trees dance miracles around my other soothing bird voice * sing to me over a tangled mangle with no justification * none so powerful arms mechanical clench-dirt [...]

Broken Smiles Stitched

-to glisten your shards, harden to do one thing only: flatten, deflate, exit, circumvent. A space of absence now alight, you walked among the traffic, whistled the thick black of exhaust fumes, as I collected the dirty floor-spots while drowning in soap. We’ll wash up on this – this doorstep, step back and re-enter again [...]