Monday, February 8, 2010

125



  What is a pause
before the cause ceases
to be a river.  It is
  
never the muscle of
ARM & HAMMER BAKING SODA.
America was a horse.

6 comments:

  1. Curtis,

    a poem or a koan?

    A nifty bit of writing, either way.

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  2. Page 125 from my collected earlier poems.

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  3. just used a bit of
    Pure
    Arm & Hammer
    Baking
    Soda

    along w some

    Clabber
    Girl
    Baking Powder


    in my egg/flower mix

    to make my scratch-pankakes rise...

    jus' like your "shortie"
    poem here nicely rises...

    lots of "stuff" in these few lines
    that provoke to extend the possibilities


    "America was a horse"

    :now, the trail less traveled less traveled (or, even, visited/re-visited)..eh?

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  4. Theft.

    An important element in creativity.

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