The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sat 3/21/2009)

[RetroLounge]

"Update"

My latent superpowers, well, they're back:
obliterate a marriage with my mind;
bewitch the president, that lying sack
of—Cody! Take it slow. In time I'll find

—please note, I'm speaking as my therapist—
the equilibrium that time affords.
I've also rerouted (I have a list)
(1) my neural pathways and (2) some fjords.

America's a country for the lonely,
the loony. Whitman said it years ago.
Remember, he could fly and he was only
an editor, a wingéd bearded schmo.

My powers have increased a hundredfold
since you left. Maybe a thousand-, all told.

Cody Walker

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Cody Walker was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1967. He holds a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, an M.F.A. from the University of Arkansas, and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington. He received the James Boatwright III Prize for Poetry from Shenandoah in 2003 and a Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Washington in 2005. A longtime writer-in-residence in Seattle Arts & Lectures’ Writers in the Schools program, he was elected Seattle Poet Populist in 2007. His work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, Parnassus, Slate, Subtropics, Light, Sewanee Theological Review, and elsewhere. In 2009 he’ll begin a term as the Amy Clampitt Resident Fellow in Lenox, Massachusetts.

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:hi:

RL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Retro!

Oh, this is great!

I'm wondering what he's going on about, until I get to the end...

And then, it all comes together...And I feel a little sad for him.

My powers have increased a hundredfold
since you left. Maybe a thousand-, all told.

Thank you...

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

3. ...

:hi:

RL

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. Love it, thanks

:donut: :hi:

[RetroLounge]

4. Good Morning

or afternoon, as the case may be...

:hi:

RL

[Chorophyll]

5. That was great.

I love Whitman as "a wingéd bearded schmo." :hi:

[RetroLounge]

6. Yeah, that was a good description...

and did you notice it was a sonnet?

:hi:

RL

[Chorophyll]

7. No!

I just read it straight through and chuckled! Wow. :)

[RetroLounge]

8. Sneaky, those forms

:hi:

RL

[stewartcolbert08]

9. I will raise you

an angry poem if you are interested?