Even Uni bombers smile
in the flippers of dolphins there are five skeletal fingers
she has the blues, astronomer betrayed by starlight
looking through filters...
two mushrooms
you aren't thinking of cranes this morning


ah the thumb
either give us a kiss
or get out of here

Eerie light of indefinable dimension
peering through the grass
if you'll tell me
ill turn you loose
crunchy granola in bedsheets
reptile in our totem
dirty burps of bitterness here are the cobwebs
huddled together in anxious stupor
the emblem of life

Stein

What I like most about Gertrude Stein is her voice, even in writing about grammar, a subject most dull in ordinary conversation, stein makes it interesting, she makes it poetic. Stein says that when she first began writing, she felt that writing should go on. It should not merely pause or stop due to bad grammar points or semi-colons. I like the metaphoric twist on grammer and literary composition, how she compares a comma to holding your coat for you and putting on your shoes.she speaks of punction in prose, but I feel that as Stein talks about punctuation, she speaks in prose. I found no powerful ending lesson from her piece this week, but I did find interest. I may not go out , cross the street, and dot my semi-colons, but i sure do appreciate the way stein made me experience an " I remember poem" in the study of grammar. Stein starts almost every change in topic with " I remember when" its as if stein doesnt just study language she experiences it. I think we can all learn a thing or two from such an approach.