But it does give me an opportunity to pass on the fact that my poem “Man At The Pharmacy” is up now in the current issue of the online mag “Breath and Shadow.” I found this site quite by chance and decided to submit a while back and am pleased that they saw fit to take this one; it’s close to my heart.

Read it at http://www.abilitymaine.org/breath/

And while I’m trying to get sleepy — and I can’t take anything to sleep because I’ve got to be up so FUCKING EARLY on top of all this — I am also trying to edit a mix for the Duende CD. Yup, we’re attempting to put together a full length CD for the tour — it’ll include “Jim’s Fall” but add in a few of the other pieces we’ve been working on, including some of the stuff we’ve done with Faro on nylon-string guitar.

Once we get past this CD, we’ll be working on the next batch, including (I hope) some pieces I’m writing for the project — up till now we’ve been setting existing pieces to music; it’s time to try putting new poetry to existing music. I’m finding it challenging but fun.

More later…back to the virtual mixing board…

–T

I’m in McLean, VA at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.

Tomorrow I run a training program in the morning, then fly home.

Sunday, I run the Sacred Fools workshop for the Ballard Street Poetry Journal.

Next week, I do this again in Charlotte.

The following week, I’m on tour with Faro through Baltimore, Delaware, and Boston.

After that, it’s off to Toronto for three days and then a show in NYC on the 19th.

At some point, I’m going to get some sleep. It’ll be fun, I think.

but anyone’s welcome to chime in:

What poetry are you reading and/or listening to right now, other than what you get here?

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— I leave for a couple of days in DC tomorrow — back Friday

— I’m writing a lot, but have decided to not post stuff here for a bit — just shaking up my process.

— Getting excited and ready for the tour!

— Also: I’ll be in Toronto (tentatively) for a few days in mid April for a job, so I might check out the scene a bit.

Minor and mundane — I hate posts like this — but some folks wanted to know if I was OK. I am.

to everyone who’s supported Gotpoetry Live over the past year.

We had a great evening last night for the first anniversary — Ducky gave a great feature to a packed house and the open mike had lots of diverse and interesting voices.

Again, thank to everyone.

Tonight, at Reflections Cafe, 8 Governor Street, Providence, we’re having the first anniversary of our Gotpoetry Live reading.

Our feature will be reading regular Ducky, in a nod to the folks who’ve grown up with the reading in the last year.

I’m looking forward to this, and I think you should be too. Come out and celebrate the little reading that could — and did.

Who knows — I might even read a new poem.

no song is fast enough. no opinion makes sense. no patience, no censor, no holding. no moment of calm in stomach full, tongue wet, heart even, slow chest rising and sinking.

no time for people beyond the necessary few who stay because they stay. no time to spend love except close by.

no peaceful drift to long sleep at regular hours. no way to disguise the footsteps in the kitchen late at night in search of whatever isn’t visible in the bedroom.

no way to disguise the end of things.

no imagining a gouging job, a telekinetic girlfriend, a Harlem Passion, a tall figure leaning back onto a lowrider.

no desire to abide when time is the only, the all there is. no starting, finishing without need of future.

no. no. no. no.

keep an eye open.
keep both.
let a thing catch one.
see it.
view a thing properly.
view a thing improperly.
do either and follow one with the other.
lean back from a thing once seen.
see it again another way.

find a word that describes a thing.
find two words.
find more than a few more words for describing a thing.
describe a thing.
describe it another way.
describe it as if a thing were another thing.
explain a thing.
get that wrong.
explain it again.
explain a thing again.

see a different thing.
see a first thing in a different thing.

listen to what things you said about a thing.
say those things again.
shift a word to make a music of what you said.
make up new words to make a music for a thing.
make an old word sing a thing anew.
sing old songs to a new thing.
sing for sake of singing.
sing for anything.

see a thing and think it is your own.
write a thing and see it is a different thing.
write about a thing that will not ever be your thing.
write about the same thing.
write about the same thing.
write about the same thing.
fall asleep with your head resting on that same thing.

wake up.

rub your eyes.
see everything that looks the same as the other thing.
see nothing that looks like another thing.

assemble your words into things.
print your things on pieces of paper.
give them names.
sign them.