#npm12

[andreazellner]

burnt dinner: revision

aunt louise and aunt linda began fighting over who would cook thanksgiving dinner

at grandma's february funeral

(cold grandma, cold ground)

when we arrived that november at aunt linda's door

were we surprised to see

the windows thrown wide against the cold wind,

smoke billowing upwards to the heavens?

(grey november smoke against grey november sky)

we shouted, we called out

(we cussed under our breath)

we found her

smoking over the charred remains of a turkey

match flame creeping towards her fingers

(hot oven, hot bird)

our eyes stung, lungs on fire

hard to say why we wept.

(the matches of our grieving)

aunt louise cooks now.

[andreazellner]

#NPM12: burnt dinner

Prompt from the http://3030poetry.com/: burnt dinner

after a long and protracted fight between Aunt Linda and Aunt Louise

over who would cook Thanksgiving dinner now that Grandma died,

we arrived at Aunt Linda's house to see smoke

(grey against grey November sky)

pouring from the windows

we entered frantically, calling her name, shouting through the haze

we found her

calmly smoking next to the smoking oven

with a charred half-cooked smouldering bird

ashtray overflowing with

half-smoked smouldering cigarettes

our eyes stung, lungs on fire

 (the matches of our grieving)

hard to say why we wept.

Aunt Louise cooks now.

[jamesberkowitz]

Today

7:30pm until 10:00pm

Venice Breeze Suites 2 Breeze Avenue Venice, CA 90291

In honor of National Poetry Month, Venice Art Crawl and Venice Breeze Suites will be celebrating a live poetry reading/performance. Please join us as creative poetic voices rise from the beautiful rooftop with a view of the Pacific Ocean and Santa Monica Mountains. Part of the evening will include voices from the new release "In The Company Of Women": An Anthology Of Wit & Wisdom, Sass & Class (Volume 1) Poets reading/performing listed alphabetically: Alicia Winski Amanda LaPera Apryl Skies Helena Hunter James Berkowitz Jessica Wilson Maryam Mottahedeh Silver Corbin ***Plan to arrive early to find ample parking. Venice Breeze Suites is located on Ocean Front Walk. Admission: FREE!!!

[andreazellner]

#NPM12: Regret

The prompt today was to write about regret: there was the teeth against flesh there was that. but, then again, there was also the licking of lips

[citylightsbooks]

Resist much, obey less. Secretly liberate any being you see in a cage.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

[citylightsbooks]

I want to wake up and see you sea green and leaf green, the problem of ripeness. On Monday I wrote it out, grayed out.

Norma Cole

[citylightsbooks]

Time unbends me My fragments make no difference They are children Laughing against knowledge

David Meltzer

[citylightsbooks]

Poets, poetasters, you can’t freak to Frank Can’t choliambic with that limping walk

Julian Talamantez Brolaski