The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Tue 2/3/2009)

[RetroLounge]

Shelter

To fit a house into a car, live lightly.
How many pairs of jeans are needed?
The mole people build homes from garbage.
Trash houses rats. The backs of rats
harbor lice. We anchor where situation
drops us and sleep can be its own room
to settle in trusting the door's latch
will hold. In Cannes, I crash on the grass
in a park, wake to rankness as a bum
spoons me, his hand between my legs
poking, trying to burrow. Such
an intimate violation. The sour wine
of his breath washes my cheek. His knees
shelter behind mine, startle when I kick away.
We all seek our own protection, huddling
against the back of the cave when the flame
flickers out. I sleep with my city windows open,
a knife beneath the pillow. Every now and then,
morning shows scratches on my arm,
the thinnest traces of red and I feel safe.

Suzanne Parker

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[blueraven95]

1. ...

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[RetroLounge]

6. Hello

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[BlueIris]

2. Excellent. Carry on. nt

[RetroLounge]

7. My Wayward Son?

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[Chorophyll]

3. Wow.

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[RetroLounge]

8. Yeah.

And she really nice too.

She was in my workshop at Sarah Lawrence.

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[Chorophyll]

11. How cool!

Stop me if I asked you this before, but during your SL stay did you meet a guy named Kevin Pilkington? He teaches there. He's super-nice, totally unpretentious, and a great poet. :)

[RetroLounge]

12. I did not get a chance to meet him

Maybe I will in June when I come back to SLC.

Wanna pick me up at White Plains Airport and drop me at SLC? :D

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[Chorophyll]

13. I totally would!

Don't rule it out, anyway. :D

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. wow

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[RetroLounge]

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear Retro...

Wow, a tough one...

Great imagery!

Thank you...

[RetroLounge]

10. ...

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