by Splabman | May 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
54. Black Dragon Year (see 54. Black Dragon Year for proper lineation) The heart measures in blood everything that happens. – Ramón Gomez de la Serna The dragon stays stuck to lampposts at the boundaries, but looks like a mountain lizard. The ancient poet stays in...
by Splabman | Mar 31, 2012 | Uncategorized
53. Nothing Death A kiss is nothing in brackets. – Ramón Gomez de la Serna A poem’s nothing on paper. A stellar jay’s a punk in a western vista. Any death’s an opportunity. One wd sing his pop a harmonium-laden blues w/ gurus and aunties in the same field as genius...
by Splabman | Mar 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
Nothing forgets us more quickly than a barstool. Ramon Gomez de la Serna the sheer terror of being forced into incarnation in accordance with one’s will one’s agreement with the single intelligence. We watch at night after so much crying crying crying, cats as bed...
by Splabman | Feb 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
Writing Haibun I first became aware of the haibun literary form through Anne Waldman’s Marriage: A Sentence and through Sam Hamill’s translation of Basho’s Narrow Road to the Interior,perhaps the quintessential translation. Now I am in the middle of...
by Splabman | Feb 4, 2012 | Uncategorized
Ships sail so far away, even farther, that their smoke is no more than the distant signal of a marine volcano. – Ramón Gomez de la Serna & further still the cosmos. & in the cosmos the soul that would be Ella. (Stellar). She. Her. No podemos hacerlo sin Ella....