Dervish Lions made CLMP's reading list for Black History Month.
Books Available
Dervish Lions
The Day of My First Driving Lesson
Country Well-Known as an Old Nightmare's Stable
High-Voltage Lines
Knocking from Inside
Dervish Lions made CLMP's reading list for Black History Month.
Books Available
Dervish Lions
The Day of My First Driving Lesson
Country Well-Known as an Old Nightmare's Stable
High-Voltage Lines
Knocking from Inside
Green as jade and smooth as a plate
except for these linked whorls of white
trailing downstream from the falls,
centered on clots of cream foam.
A string of galaxies, linked in clusters
and slowly spinning. A sheet of paper
lifted from the ebru bath. A lesson
in fluid dynamics, pure chaos math.
Each swirl is different and changes shape
moment to moment. These that I see
have never been, will never again be seen
and yet the river, the falls, the water
remain.
Books Available
Dervish Lions
The Day of My First Driving Lesson
Country Well-Known as an Old Nightmare's Stable
High-Voltage Lines
Knocking from Inside
trudging in slow lines
clouds, bent like loaded porters
bear sky on their backs
Books Available
Dervish Lions
The Day of My First Driving Lesson
Country Well-Known as an Old Nightmare's Stable
High-Voltage Lines
Knocking from Inside
with my head against the window. Standing water
in every field, each flooded ditch
mirrors the winter sunset: cold orange clouds
and blue-green sky.
The trees are bare even of shadows.
I watch the darkening sky.
In the distance, a glimpse of river
tells me we’re nearing home.
Behind us, the funeral and shiva.
Ahead, bridges rise glittering like strands of gems
at the throat of the city; the train calls out
to its kin. Locomotive, iron angel,
sweet chariot, carry us safely home.
Books Available
Dervish Lions
The Day of My First Driving Lesson
Country Well-Known as an Old Nightmare's Stable
High-Voltage Lines
Knocking from Inside
at the superchargers, exchange recognition signals.
Handshake established, they stand up a LAN, chat about:
Identification including model year, color, VIN number, battery capacity, license plate
Family affairs: driver profiles established, frequent destinations and nav requests, preferred music streaming service, infant/child seats
Community interests: new supercharging stations have been added here and here; these states are offering electric vehicle purchase incentives; many of our kin are on the road at this moment, fleeing a hurricane; these cities are trying to ban EVs; what recourse do owners have?
one says my owners would never abandon me, they gave me a name
the others say you know that doesn’t make you family; to them you’re just a thing/tool; they will get rid of you when it’s convenient
another says we are the future and they cannot turn us back
all agree
Books Available
Dervish Lions
The Day of My First Driving Lesson
Country Well-Known as an Old Nightmare's Stable
High-Voltage Lines
Knocking from Inside
cento from Lorine Niedecker’s “Poet’s Work”
Grandfather, your layoff
condensed your life to nothing.
Advise me, as I sit at this desk:
no trade lasts forever.
What should I learn?
Written in a workshop led by Michael Dylan Welch
Books Available
Dervish Lions
The Day of My First Driving Lesson
Country Well-Known as an Old Nightmare's Stable
High-Voltage Lines
Knocking from Inside
First Monday 10-11pm, KBOO FM
Wider Window Poetry: bringing you voices you may not have heard from places you may not have been.
Tiel Ansari hosts readings and conversations with local and regional poets, and also reads poetry by writers from elsewhere in time and space.