From realpoetik at scn9.scn.org Mon Oct 13 18:00:22 2008 From: realpoetik at scn9.scn.org (RealPoetik Magazine) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:00:22 -0400 Subject: [Realpoetik] Jane Rice Message-ID: <86a3fe410810131800wc8fe48bs24c057a46e3d95e3@mail.gmail.com> *In Charcoal* Catch passing face of a man, three views of tower, a few table things. Brooding blue moonlights floor. Seated silhouette. No one cares about the lamp. Trees rattle brown shadows. My face part quarrel, part kiss. Tricked into thinking little boat could be. *Rue Okbaa Ibn Nafaa* Short moon, cusp whose reason deceives. No inducement to be honest. Watch me catch strangers who lean. Into sleep. You. I'm not your friend. Bribe me. I'll give you little mirror, slip it from its hook. Drums, clarions, wrestlers swim blue mosaic. White for the sea. Homeward two sails, one tier of oars. Thoughts stern on the faces of sailors. Along the border, chiseled acacias divide into ships. *Chrome* Meatballs, pickles fries. Don't trust fish. Don't eat in restaurants. Here, sweep roofs. Streets run all night, end extra large, any hour. Squirrel, hubcap, runoff, condom, needle, sock. Typical hat loses glove on bus. Quick, before chaotic jells. Voice crams down neck of the phone. If it crashes, think how many people will be killed. Hey, free movie here. Isn't nature great? Of course, It is. Surprise. Surprise. In all my poems I seek to create a tension between coincidence and the expectation of sequence. The mind yearns to find meaning in the connections of things. Yet we ascribe meaning only to a fraction of the coincidences that surround us. My poems have appeared in various journals including Barrow Street and Diner. Other poems have been posted on various Web sites. A letterpress edition of *Portrait Sitters* was published by Propolis Press, 2007. *Line Drawings* was a finalist in the Center for Book Arts chapbook competition, New York, 2007. *Crayfish Tale, *a book-length manuscript*, *was a finalist in the Colorado Prize for Poetry, 2005. I pursue my interest in poetry, art, and art history. - Jane Rice -- RealPoetik realpoetik.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: