The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Thu 5/7/2009)

[RetroLounge]

My God

My god is a short god. My god wears jeans.
When he swims, he has a lazy breaststroke.
When he gardens, he uses his bare hands.
My god watches reruns of late night talk shows.
My god could levitate but prefers the stairs
and if available, the fireman’s pole. My god
loves bacon. My god’s afraid of sharks.
My god thinks the only way to define a country
is with water. My god thinks eventually,
we will come around on ear candling. My god
spits chaw. My god never flosses.
My god reads Proust. My god never
graduated. He smiles when astronauts reach
zero gravity and say My god, My god.
My god is knitting one very big sweater.
My god is teaching his terrier to beg.
My god didn’t mean for icebergs. My god
didn’t mean for machetes. Sometimes
a sparrow lands in the hands of my god
and he cups it, gently. It never wants to leave
and so, it never notices that even if it tried
my god has too good a grip, my god, my god.

Sandra Beasley

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From her blog: "My second collection, I Was the Jukebox, has won the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Award and will be published by W.W. Norton in Spring 2010. My first collection, Theories of Falling, won the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize. I'm a sometimes contributor to the Washington Post and at work on a new project, Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life, forthcoming from Crown."

:hi:

RL

[blueraven95]

1. Good Morning!

You are on a roll aren't you? :D


:hi:

[RetroLounge]

2. I might switch to doing blocks of poems

like I have this week...

:hi:

RL

[blueraven95]

3. works for me.

until it's a poet I don't like, of course. :rofl:

[RetroLounge]

10. Now who don't you like?

:shrug:

RL

[Chorophyll]

4. Okay. Dude? Srsly...

I know you've posted this one already, 'kay?

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

7. Doesn't matter..

I have a poet-crush, so deal with it...

:rofl:

RL

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. yep

:donut::hi:

[RetroLounge]

8. yup

:hi:

RL

[BlueIris]

6. It appears Ms. Beasely cannot write a bad poem.

Damn her.

[RetroLounge]

9. Exactly!

Damn her to hell!

:D

Damn, she is good, huh?

:hi:

RL