The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sat 6/7/2009)

[RetroLounge]

Poem Talking In Its Sleep About a Lake

The year Jeffrey's Shooting Star filled the marshland
of Mowich Lake with chaos, white bands
around the tube of each purple blossom called
hello there I say hello there please walk
around me as they clustered inside-out. The long
filament tube, reflexed petals (usually five),
sticky anthers promising generations into infinitude
of Jeffreys. Your leaving is not easy
on the world. When I press tent stakes, when
I boil a mug of water, when I sit and stare:
no deer this evening, no tail twitching
the bear grass, no snorting at the lake;
my mind will not allow that flower to leave
the marshland but it has. I tried not to say
these words, but here they come: no remission,
no treatment, no telling the kids, quiet, dear,
go back to sleep. The year was 2002, I think,
and Jeffrey's Shooting Star let loose in my mind.
Every sticky anther extended toward the stigma.

Lilah Hegnauer

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Lilah Hegnauer’s Dark Under Kiganda Stars (Ausable Press, 2005) received honorable mention for the 2007 Library of Virginia Literary Award. She holds an MFA from the University of Virginia, and her poems have been published in The Kenyon Review, The Saint Ann’s Review, Orion, The Drunken Boat, and So to Speak. She is the recipient of an Astraea Lesbian Writers Grant and lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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RL

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. ^

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[RetroLounge]

2. Good Morning!

How are you this fine morning?

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RL

[Kajsa]

3. Very nice,Retro.

I like the perspective here.

:) :hi:

and--HB, again! ;)

[RetroLounge]

4. Good Morning!

and thank you!

:D:hi:

RL

[miss_american_pie]

5. Psst... it's Sunday

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[RetroLounge]

6. Damn... Old age is a bitch...

but you're not.

:loveya:

RL

[miss_american_pie]

7. Wasn't Friday bitch day?

I get distracted. ;)

[RetroLounge]

8. That reminds me, gotta make your business cards...

:rofl:

RL

[miss_american_pie]

9. Right...

after the nap, by which point you'll forget again. ;)

[RetroLounge]

10. Nah, got them started...

Hee. You will like them, I think...

RL

[miss_american_pie]

11. Hee

Now I just need to order a T shirt...

[RetroLounge]

12. Oh, good idea!

And I just printed a sample card.... :9

Now off to CVS for card stock...

RL

[Chorophyll]

13. ...

I like this one. A lot. :hi:

[RetroLounge]

14. Good Afternoon!

Hope you're having a pleasant valley sunday!

:hi:

RL

[Chorophyll]

15. Here in status-symbol land?

You bet! :hi: