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• Poetry, Vol3, Issue1 - Spring/Summer 2010

  Traveler’s Ode

  03.31.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Editor’s Note: Dao has graciously given Rough Copy an mp3 of “Traveler’s Ode.”  Click here to listen.
  Sometimes I see the future
  & it looks alright
  to a man who’s been waiting
  his whole long life
  to be returned to that land
  it was north of somewhere
  it was cold and
  oh so bright
  ((& everyone was happy there))
  I’ve memorized
  every promise
  that was gave on […]

• Poetry, Vol3, Issue1 - Spring/Summer 2010

  Mothersongs (East)

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  I. Ode to Mother(land)

  Didn’t you once believe in art?
  Didn’t you once have a beating heart?
  when you told me the story of a poet
  & her friends who went to see a king
  but he wouldn’t let them in
  except for her fine eyes
  she told him of the troubles
  throughout their country
  she told him of her worries
  for all their people
  she […]

• Poetry, Vol3, Issue1 - Spring/Summer 2010

  Mothersongs (West)

  03.31.10 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I.  Two Rivers

  ((two rivers meet where the water is warm))
  ((blackberries stain my childish hands))

  - a tapestry of memory of temperature
  that I can nary forget nor Remember
  (we saw) two rivers cross
  one from the valley
  one from up on the rocks
  one streamed cold, one streamed hot
  in a blackberry forest
  I saw the two rivers join into one
  ((father killed a […]