The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Fri 9/22/06)

[RetroLounge]

Yes

It's about the blood
banging in the body,
and the brain
lolling in its bed
like a happy baby.

At your touch, the nerve,
that volatile spook tree,
vibrates. The lungs
take up their work
with a giddy vigor.

Tremors in the joints
and tympani,
dust storms
in the canister of sugar.

The coil of ribs
heats up, begins
to glow. Come
here.

Catherine Doty

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RL

If you have a request for a certain Poet, post their name in the thread and I will find a poem by them and post it...

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[RevCheesehead]

1. Well, you've made MY day!!

:loveya:

[RetroLounge]

2. Can i make your Night?

:hi:

RL

[RevCheesehead]

3. uhhhh....

you have to ask?! :bounce::bounce::woohoo:

:loveya:

[RetroLounge]

4. OOSTBURG!!!

:bounce:

RL

[RevCheesehead]

5. *thud*

Oh, :swoon:!

The usual time? :7

[RetroLounge]

7. Yes. I'll stop and get coffee.

You get the chocolate sauce.

:9

RL

[speedoo]

6. If I may intrude on this soiree for a moment....

I like the poem.... a lot. So thanks.

OK, now you can go back to whatever it was you were doing.:eyes:

[RetroLounge]

8. Glad ypou like it...

:hi:

RL

[speedoo]

9. I have been meaning to ask you, RL..

if you happen to know the name of a poet in the NYC area. He is probably around 65-70 years old, and he has written a few poems about 9/11, as well as a very substantial number of other poems. One in particular is about the politicization of 9/11.

I heard him in an interview, probably on NPR, but I was too lazy to write his name down. Any ideas on a search method for finding him? He has won some awards, and he has a full works being published about now.:hi:

[RetroLounge]

10. Perhaps you mean Andrei Codrescu

:shrug:

RL

[speedoo]

11. No, but thanks.

The name is anglo, or irish, as I recall. I'll find him, somehow.

[miss_american_pie]

12. Sounds like it could be

John Ashbery, or Robert Pinsky (but I think he's in Massachusettes, now, maybe).

[speedoo]

14. Thanks, but it's not either of them.

Google says no.:hi:

[Callalily]

13. Great poem RL!

:hi: :hug:

[RetroLounge]

15. Thanks!

:hi:

RL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

16. Good morning, my dear RetroLounge.........

Ah.......so that's what it's like........I had nearly forgotten...

Well, not really.........

Wonderful poem!

Getting the weekend off with a bang, I see!

Thanks........:bounce: :bounce:

[RetroLounge]

17. You said "Bang"

:rofl:

:hi:

RL

[idgiehkt]

18. that's it right there....

thats poetry.

I've just been banged by consonance.

goddamn.

[miss_american_pie]

19. lol

:thumbsup:

[RetroLounge]

21. "banged by consonance"

:rofl:

:thumbsup:

RL

[lizziegrace]

20. Nice choice RL

:hug: