[New-Poetry] happy

[Bob Grumman]

Wow, all at once a conversation poem, an Iowa plaintext lyric, and a language poem (because of the incredibly subtle placement of the one punctuation mark he uses in a poem otherwise without expected punctuation marks).  What range!

--Bob G.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Anny Ballardini 
  To: New Poetry 
  Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 2:37 AM
  Subject: [New-Poetry] happy


  father's day, from the Writer's Almanac:
  Poem: "March 8" by David Lehman from The Evening Sun: A Journal in Poetry. © Scribner Poetry. Reprinted with permission. (buy now) 

  March 8 

  Every so often my father comes over
  for a visit he hangs his overcoat and hat
  on my hat rack I brief him on recent
  developments and serve us coffee
  he is surprised that I like to cook
  once when he made an omelette
  he flipped it in the air much to my delight
  and it landed on the floor yes that 
  was the summer of 1952, he remembered 
  the high breakers and how fearless
  I was running into the ocean anyway
  the important thing is to see you doing
  so well he said and took his coat and hat
  and left before I remembered he was dead 



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  Anny Ballardini
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  I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star! 
  Friedrich Nietzsche 



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