Insomnia Poem

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

(for Todd Colby)

I’m like some freak who smells like moon tea, if only spirit
had not abandoned me, if only I could harness the power
of a single day’s frittering, I’d come back from the fourth dimension
and tell myself deep truths from there, flickering in the doorway,
saying, “Chill” and “Recognize.” I am high up in my home, bereft
of as many comforting textiles as I’d like to own, but rich in dark
haunted tree limbs moving of their own volition. Cradled
by more encroaching fog and nefarious 2 a.m. subway track
singing than I even begin to deserve. I am mourning the twentieth
century. Kids these days know nothing of Magic Fingers,
of luminous clock faces slowly going dark next to twin beds
as a dogwood tree comes on outside, shining the yard
bright in one spot, on the loneliest night in the twentieth century.

Weekends

Monday, October 25, 2010





First Aid Kit

Monday, October 25, 2010



[Found here: http://coldfrontmag.com/poets-off-poetry/four-fantasias-on-fleet-foxes]

Joan Baez

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Found poem

Monday, October 04, 2010


If you Google "Joanna Penn Cooper poem" and then click on "images," you'll see a bunch of images that are mostly not me.

[The Jeanne Moreau image is from http://giuliageranium.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_archive.html.]
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