A kelp gull in the gray sky banks;
neck tumescent it enters the clouds
and passes the edge of the diverse morning.

Festival International de Poésie

Wallonian Words Before Breakfast fans will be pleased to know that I will be taking part in the 9th Festival International et Marché de Poésie in Namur which runs from the 21st to the 24th June.  Full programme and list of participants is here.

Panicked, awake
on a bed
in a city;

there isn't enough of anything left.

crowded shorts

I have been dropped on this soft bed
like something dropped from heaven

white rice

outside input

Lendemain de l'oulipo

Cabernet franc barnet, fernet branca face

Poets Live 

Harry Mathews, Doug Nufer, Ian Monk, Wendy Walker, Tom La Farge & Daniel Levin Becker

Le Bal Café, 6 Impasse de la Défense, 75018 Paris

tonight, 19:00

four leaves left

Tree

The tree
that stands
in the way
is the way
I see it
now
and
now
I don't

What is it then but a tightening in time;
my children's children, and their children's children too.