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I Am
a Poet,
a Nebbish and
Other Living Creatures
I.
I am a sparrow. I jump along the path and puddles
left by yesterday's rain. I re-write my life in the
alphabet of italic footprints.
I am a cat. I relax under a soft hand and write down
my luxury life. Sometimes I arch my back in fury. I
idle my days away.
I am a salmon. I at a spur of moments swim against
the stream with resistance to gravity defying normal
flow of things.
II.
I am a dusty-pink cartoonish persimmon in oversized
galoshes stand in front of the store to attract shoppers.
A skin-deep layer of self-reliance gives the artificial
impression of a merry confidence. I now and then generate
sugary poems, causing toothache.
My inner flesh, soaked with inferiority, eats me
alive spitting out pathetic confessional poems. And
my all 'un's - unlovable, unhappy, unlucky - are jellied
below the shiny surface.
I wish I could coat my tart self in irony and sarcasm,
but I can only extract a couple of laughs from the audience
of a few.
I can't afford to be overly sad - it is boring even
for people who like me.
III
I am a scribe of thoughts, mostly sad. I am a painter
of images in the mirror held onto reality. I am a cipher
of metaphors seasoning my writing.
When a poem is airborne, I just happen to be there.
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Please, year, don't rush away
my golden autumn,
don't snow my hair.
I am not ready for winter, yet
- Old Georgian Ballad
Published By Windsong
Publishing Co. Ca (2003)
CITY OF NAKED FEELINGS
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This city exists and it has a simple secret:
it
knows only departures not returns.
-
Italo Calvino
I will tell how bodies
change into different
bodies.
-
Ovid
• Story
of a Woman
• Art
of a Glimpse
• A
Few Interludes of Life
Published By Windsong Publishing Co.
Ca (2005)
Illustration by Tony Glenwright
Cover and flaps by Anne Kwestell
NEW YORK CITY AND OTHER TIMES
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In this world,
time is a visible dimension.
One may look off
in the distance and see houses,
trees, mountain
peaks that are landmarks of space.
One may look
out in another distance and see births,
marriages,
deaths that are signpost of time.
-
Alan Lightman, Einstein's Dreams
• Ode to New York
• In Seven Seas
• Timescape
DAYENU
My
Journey into the Jewish World
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• I
Want to Belong
• The
Land of Awe
• Oh,
If I Forget You, Jerusalem
• The
Root of the Matter
FROM THERE TO NOW
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The present moment is not a simple finite thing
measured
by the clock; it's a palimpsest of all
present
moments before it, their images, music,
words,
whispers rising up through the layered
years.
-
Russal Hoban (Amaryllis Night and Day)
The
best way to preserve memory is to conserve
it
inside forgetting, so not even a single act of
remembering
will seep in and disturb the
memory's eternal
rest.
-
Yehuda Amichai
• I Write Down My Life and Count Pages
• Allegro
Moderato For Seasons & Men
• Art Therapy
for Thristyfulls
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