tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66360202007-12-29T20:30:20.457+10:00pelican dreamingmark younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10012564789159816002noreply@blogger.comBlogger1770125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636020.post-1143208582059839282006-03-24T23:55:00.000+10:002006-04-28T16:58:06.710+10:00moved to
gamma waysmark younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10012564789159816002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636020.post-1142743382769961592006-03-19T14:41:00.000+10:002006-03-19T14:43:02.790+10:00A post-ultimate postMy thanks for the comments, posts & emails.
I have no intention of leaving the ethereal world. It's just that I felt I wasn't giving the pelican the commitment it deserved. Magritte will continue, I'll probably post to As/Is, & I'll probably start a new blog sometime, but at a less frenetic pace. The Blogger Dashboard tells me this is the 1768th post in these two years. That's an average of 2½ mark younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10012564789159816002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636020.post-1142594455582767122006-03-18T09:58:00.000+10:002006-03-17T21:24:23.120+10:00A farewell hay(na)ku
After exactly two
years as
a
battery
hen, I
have decided to
let the Pelican
find a
home
on
the free
range. Occasionally I
might
go &
collect her eggs.mark younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10012564789159816002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636020.post-1142565369404666242006-03-18T07:07:00.000+10:002006-03-18T11:38:37.220+10:00Pen ultimate - a thank youFlirting
for Eileen Tabios
So the distances are Galatea
and one does fall in love
CHARLES OLSON: The Distances
It is a dance in two
parts. Is ritual.
Pop song from the
Forties. A trip to the moon.
The bull, the matador.
Dance, ritual, death.
Whose death? A las
cinco de la tarde.
Usually the bull. Sometimes
the matador. Provocation
can have unexpected results.
A procession of flagellants
mark younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10012564789159816002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636020.post-1142555957564208452006-03-17T22:36:00.000+10:002006-03-17T10:41:43.216+10:00I am listening to the double-CD of the Modern Jazz Quartet's final concert, recorded at the Lincoln Centre in November 1974. They have always been one of my favourite groups, a composite in many ways of the things that move me in music, beyond music. They're a major part of my continuum, a nexus that brought together Bach & bebop, that swung like all hell, very laid back but also very structured,mark younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10012564789159816002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636020.post-1142564830361938612006-03-17T13:05:00.000+10:002006-03-17T14:35:59.873+10:00I always wanted to do something with/to this
but never got around to it.mark younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10012564789159816002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636020.post-1142564579731127392006-03-17T13:01:00.000+10:002006-03-17T14:35:41.583+10:00A new issueof Moria is up.mark younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10012564789159816002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636020.post-1142559686399744162006-03-17T11:39:00.000+10:002006-03-17T11:41:26.416+10:00La Grande Famille
birds
are made
from the airmark younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10012564789159816002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636020.post-1142504290461278952006-03-16T20:17:00.000+10:002006-03-16T20:18:10.480+10:00Today the
postman brought
me the snows
of yesteryear
but they had
melted before
they got to me.mark younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10012564789159816002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636020.post-1142459254545002212006-03-16T07:44:00.000+10:002006-03-16T07:47:34.576+10:00wonderful, wonderful things
at nonlinear poetry.mark younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10012564789159816002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636020.post-1142417253066954392006-03-15T20:03:00.000+10:002006-03-15T20:07:33.103+10:00Galatea's erectionis actually Eileen Tabios' new review blogzine Galatea Resurrects (a poetry review), but since it's up for the first time, I pay homage to its initial erection.
Lotsa reviews. Lotsa & lotsa reviews. To quote THE EDITOR This issue inaugurates itself with 25 new reviews of 27 poetry publications and a poetry video, e-reprints of ten reviews previously published in print publications, and a sectionmark younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10012564789159816002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636020.post-1142412883419165722006-03-15T18:51:00.000+10:002006-03-16T07:48:14.730+10:00
Event-
ually
I
hit
the
wall
mark younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10012564789159816002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636020.post-1142412463489380732006-03-15T18:42:00.000+10:002006-03-15T18:58:59.076+10:00
passive
active
mark younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10012564789159816002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636020.post-1142319888844428442006-03-14T17:03:00.000+10:002006-03-14T17:04:48.860+10:00hisstorymark younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10012564789159816002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636020.post-1142319800340056352006-03-14T16:57:00.000+10:002006-03-14T17:05:18.183+10:00herstorydisenfranchisedmark younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10012564789159816002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636020.post-1142308930622240782006-03-14T14:01:00.000+10:002006-03-14T14:02:10.640+10:00a p.s.or,
perhaps, a
Biro de change.mark younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10012564789159816002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636020.post-1142258256719379722006-03-14T00:05:00.000+10:002006-03-14T00:01:57.113+10:00The Dharmasekar ficcioneWhen asked
why he had followed
this
particular pursuit, Sunil
Dharmasekar, pre-
eminent amongst
modern Tantric sages,
attributed it to
the invention & subsequent
mass production
of the ballpoint pen.
"I was young &
naif," he said. "Until
the age of twenty-
three I did not know
that the appendage be-
tween my legs had a
purpose beyond
exuding fluids. I
taught myself
to curl it over a
quill mark younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10012564789159816002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636020.post-1142167799054670942006-03-13T00:48:00.000+10:002006-03-12T22:49:59.716+10:00Later,when content
didn't carry it
like he
wanted it to
it was
elocution
lessons & long
nights in the
tanning salon.mark younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10012564789159816002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636020.post-1142144649413052742006-03-12T16:23:00.000+10:002006-03-12T16:24:09.450+10:00Fiddling
with the
keys on
the dark
porch I
managed
to lose
the poem
that had
found me
halfway
through my
walk home.mark younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10012564789159816002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636020.post-1142142242091750962006-03-12T15:39:00.000+10:002006-03-12T15:44:02.096+10:00It's the weekend.I
should have
been grooming the
pelican. Spent time
with Magritte
instead.mark younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10012564789159816002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636020.post-1142124044133975502006-03-12T10:39:00.000+10:002006-03-12T15:38:54.050+10:00So longAfter the
revolution
it will
be the
spies &
sleeper agents
& silent
sympathizers
that
I will
execute first
for
how can I
trust
those
who have
for so
long
success-
fully
lived
a lie.mark younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10012564789159816002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636020.post-1142072714985425882006-03-11T20:23:00.000+10:002006-03-11T20:25:15.006+10:00Words & Imagesmark younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10012564789159816002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636020.post-1142054334001238442006-03-11T15:16:00.000+10:002006-03-11T15:18:54.040+10:00for Eileen Tabiosterse
          terser
                    tercet mark younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10012564789159816002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636020.post-1142043612989277902006-03-11T12:18:00.000+10:002006-03-11T12:20:13.010+10:00erudeitemark younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10012564789159816002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636020.post-1141972268284225082006-03-10T16:20:00.000+10:002006-03-10T16:33:37.923+10:00It has beenraining off & on over the last few days, occasionally quite heavily, as the bottom edge of the monsoon trough passes across northern Australia. Even now the clouds off to the inland are acquiring that grey glassiness that might indicate another storm is about to arrive. But it's also been reasonably warm, & the mosquitoes are out in plague proportions. Disturb them & your arm, within seconds, mark younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10012564789159816002noreply@blogger.com