The FAB&PP Poem of the Month for August 1999


TWO TRAVELING POEMS

1.

smiling at moments that
never happened he
writes, pauses, again

his thoughts a passage
not of stone and light

time not
    memorialized
or memorized

thinking again with old
experience added
exchanging into memory
with the slip of a synapse
moving from neocortex
to hippocampus

the spirit, fed
while sleeping, awakes

a burst of memory

immediacy receding

a gift
to each age

    [the salt and
    pepper shakers
    shaped like tiny
    one-props
    squatting,
    watching
    the progress of
    the poet]

west to east
writing in
stiff ink from a
5 cent pen
    with
courtesy and good
intention matching
    shabby
reality

"this here is Brixton"
narrates the cabbie

and
this too is time
passing beneath the
wing

2.

not in any place
long enough
    for the
ordinary to become
obvious

June 26 - July 7, 1999
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