Daily Archives: January 23, 2008

Poem in Spindle

loudpoet‘s rolling launch of the excellent e-zine continues. Already one of my favorite e-zines, it explores various facets of life in NYC.

I’ve got two poems up in the joint: “First Letter Home” was in the soft launch back in December, and now “Light and Glass,” one of the very few poems I’ve written about 9/11, is up this week. I’m proud to have it there, a little humbled to be sure…

Worth checking out across the board, and bookmarking for future reading. This promises to be a Web highlight for hose (and others) seeking excellent work in all genres.

http://www.spindlezine.com/


Plea

There are six billion people on the Earth.
Only seventeen of them
have ever seen a real UFO, only six have seen
a ghost, and only thirty-seven have seen
a yeti.

All of them keep quiet because
they have rationalized their experiences thus:

“it was lightning…”
“it was a trick of weak light…”
“it was my eyes making dumb sense of odd shadows on the underbrush…”

and so on. This is the way truth is made.
What they saw is a matter of fact, how they explain it
is a matter of faith. Sixty separate miracles
are filed sadly away as bad angles, old vision, and
unremarkable moments in unremarkable lives…

so how can you say
you are sure
you don’t love me?