Monday, January 22, 2007

Puppy Flowers #7




Drinking


At 9 in the morning drinking
beer from a tall bottle
the caterpillar
has left my leaf

I could be
both lovers
and never break up

Herbs
collectible stamps
and blue sheet lightning

I am the water
the people on the bank
came to be near

-Julien Poirier

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there are categories that don't often translate to web life: off the top of my head, poetry and rare tree identification, where you would think a simple catalogue. Issue 7 came out a while back but it's worth a revisit. JP keeps some thread stringing through, not afraid of a rhyme, bleak optimism, qualities +

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