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potted_music at 12:40pm on 09/08/2012
potted_music at 12:40pm on 09/08/2012I like really short poems, and really short fiction in general. The wonderful inkscrawl journal dedicated to "minimalistic speculative poetry" has been providing my fix of that. They are good; read them if that's your kind of thing, and you've somehow missed them.
My favourite out of the latest issue's crop is this:
The Green Man Answers the Classifieds by Sonya Taaffe
He writes eyes brown, hair green,
in his spare time enjoys flippancy and photosynthesis,
despairs of words as dry as summer-fissured cork,
the droughty gossip of late, locust-shelled leaves,
wishes he could twine his fingers through the pages
until pulp and printer's ink remember
the slow sap-rise, the stretch and groin of branches
tattooed with lichen, bird-riddled, the waking tree
untangling himself from the morning paper
to meet him mouth to mouth, yearning toward the sun.
My favourite out of the latest issue's crop is this:
The Green Man Answers the Classifieds by Sonya Taaffe
He writes eyes brown, hair green,
in his spare time enjoys flippancy and photosynthesis,
despairs of words as dry as summer-fissured cork,
the droughty gossip of late, locust-shelled leaves,
wishes he could twine his fingers through the pages
until pulp and printer's ink remember
the slow sap-rise, the stretch and groin of branches
tattooed with lichen, bird-riddled, the waking tree
untangling himself from the morning paper
to meet him mouth to mouth, yearning toward the sun.