The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poem Thread, 8/30/07

[BlueIris]

—from "Elegy for My Sister"

Warm toast. Night fires. Aesop and Grimm.
An electric model of the Lippizanner stallions
Circling each other in her darkened room.
An empty schoolyard after a morning rain,
And a figure eight traced by bicycle tires,
Over and over, without a flaw. Her vine-
Bourne flowering marginalia, flowering now,

In the ever-widening margins of memory.
The up-early privacy of a house at dawn:
A jig-saw puzzle, disarranged, arranging
Into evergreen leaves on a holly tree (the
Quick bird movements of her slender hands).
The window she'd look in each time
We'd pass the Home for Retarded Children.

A doll whose name changed day by day,
An imaginary friend she called Applause.
My feeling (no doubt hopelessly tinged
With how, were she here, her looks alone
Would resist my attempts to say these things)
That all of this was already lost, even then.
The Palace of Nowhere. L'Hotel de Dream.

—Sherod Santos

[BlueIris]

1. Kick.

[BlueIris]

2. Kick.

[BlueIris]

3. Oh, come on. This is one of the best poems ever. Plus, Sherod Santos once gave me

a special award for my poetry. Because he rocks and has excellent taste.

[wildhorses]

4. i wish i had a sister, growing up.

thanks for this :hi:

[BlueIris]

5. I have a sister. They aren't all they're cracked up to be.

She was a brat as a child, and is now a mega-brat.

[wildhorses]

6. me, i got stuck with 2 brothers

back to that patriarchal thing again :eyes:

:rofl:

[BlueIris]

7. Well, I have to confess that I'm glad I didn't get brothers.

Whew!

[BlueIris]

8. Did I mention Sherod Santos gave me an *award*?

'Cause he rocks. Or, I do, I'm not sure which.

[BlueIris]

9. Kick.

[BlueIris]

10. But He. Gave. Me. An. Award.

[BlueIris]

11. Kick.

[BlueIris]

12. I'm very sad that nobody except wildhorses appears to have liked this one.

It's one of the best poems I've ever read. Plus, award.