seethingblue's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- poems for and about the anonymous the tissue paper rustles beneath your thighs and of course everything is cold and clinical, i told you i wanted to write a really good prose poem, i couldn't get tickets to hear richard ford, and put cornstarch in the muffins because it felt like baking powder and i bake a lot these days did you know i see a magazine with drew barrymore on it and remember her pastel rainbow skirt in E.T. you still cut out the eiffel tower, you still leave the stems on the spinach but did you know that chimpanzees share 98 percent of their genes with humans that dust is mainly human skin that babies can swim underwater the rain stopped coming and i dreamt i lost my gray umbrella and was too self-conscious to wear a slicker or galoshes and the water dripped down my arms in nonsensical patterns and i had no patience to wait for you beneath withered-branched trees and i emailed joy harjo to tell her i was going to give a speech and was very afraid but instead we exchanged recipes and don't you know bananas are an excellent substitute for conditioner and cinammon can go in coffee and cafe au lait is traditionally drunk in a bowl and i will never see that first cafe in vienna i may never make it out 00:39 - 21 February, 2004 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
||||||