http://existentialmedia.net/lionmouth Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:28:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en fig. 1: Like richness piling inward; life unto yourself. I was in church eating eggs off my lap while this guy was watching. But he couldn’t smell them, buttery—that was just for me. fig. 2: Like how a hand can only touch you one place at a time. I wanted to bury ... http://existentialmedia.net/lionmouth/2009/06/recent-romances To start, you make yourself a sandwich. You hold it like a football, stand in the wind, and winnow the meat from the cheese, letting both fall limp to the sand. This is to acknowledge your kinship with the wilted kelp, which also falls that way. Done with greetings and offerings, ... http://existentialmedia.net/lionmouth/2009/04/a-personalized-retreat [youtube width="115" height="93"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PgmvTHdLLU&feature=related[/youtube] [youtube width="115" height="93"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz0ebvpf9FY[/youtube] [youtube width="115" height="93"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csbPpYm6IbE[/youtube] [youtube width="115" height="93"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLb693ELioo[/youtube] [youtube width="115" height="93"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMUmfuMpMcg[/youtube] [youtube width="115" height="93"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIvBkBd2iwk[/youtube] [youtube width="115" height="93"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Vhoz4TvBk[/youtube] [youtube width="115" height="93"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwN806lLKZQ[/youtube] [youtube width="115" height="93"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ExzYyDQYpg[/youtube] [youtube width="115" height="93"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ALFPrU2MMQ[/youtube] [youtube width="115" height="93"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBd0d21oBOc[/youtube] [youtube width="115" height="93"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_ammU6QEdY[/youtube] [youtube width="115" height="93"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW87f8fqlZA[/youtube] [youtube width="115" height="93"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxwvikZrwAE[/youtube] [youtube width="115" height="93"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37YVRdlRsfc[/youtube] [youtube width="115" height="93"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK-gLJDlPTg[/youtube] In fifth grade we hung around after school to play Sumo. We’d stuff the tetherball under a sweatshirt ... http://existentialmedia.net/lionmouth/2009/04/we-all-want-to-know I read it, ‘a burger deeper than language or affection.’ Words are laid hair by hair, like sewn fur. No one lifts the goat’s coat to see the handiwork, and even there there is a lining. Why can’t the wonders be sep’rated? No one wants to split the lark, so we round the words up, bury our necks in fur, ... http://existentialmedia.net/lionmouth/2009/04/the-editors-five-stages-of-mourning As a kid, certain books (Jane Eyre, A Little Princess, Little Women, Girl of the Limberlost, The BFG, The Oz series, etc.) appeared and swallowed me whole, whales to my Jonah. I sat in the ribs’ corridor without a match, listening to blood course through the fish. But The Good ... http://existentialmedia.net/lionmouth/2009/03/the-b-i-b-l-e are sometimes not as fun as beginnings. ONE (A stark white room with four white chairs and a white table scarcely distinguishable from white walls. In the corner, a lit aquarium teeming with fish. LOUISE stands over the fish, her arms submerged. She wears a loose, yellow tunic. FRANCIS reclines on ... http://existentialmedia.net/lionmouth/2009/03/middles-and-ends (((Three poems inspired by remembered places in time))) Daphne's room, SL could feed off that month for years, the time spent sleeping in her bed batting at nets, or the five minutes running on a low wall just above the afternoon flood (a broth; a carcass settling in the pot.) . . Parks there are bells tied to everyone's laces. everyone walks lightly, so the short high ring is heard ... http://existentialmedia.net/lionmouth/2009/02/surveying http://existentialmedia.net/lionmouth/2009/02/that-orange-is-undercover Where is Waldo? I know the strategy. Keep the colors of the crowd varied yet repeating, so the page washes gently together.  Place Waldo in a clearing, right out in the relative open. Then, while you're bogged down in details--your eye sliding down the limbs of a dog pile, peeking under ... http://existentialmedia.net/lionmouth/2009/01/look-for-the-clearings ocean barber, my book of poems, is now available in print, or to download! Once inside, you will find such words as: movie, mom, cat, shorts, carrot, anger, butt cheeks, and ham. Straight from the foreword (in fact, this is the foreword): These were mostly written in early 2008, while living at ... http://existentialmedia.net/lionmouth/2009/01/ocean-barber