109th Virtual Poetry Circle
Welcome to the 109th Virtual Poetry Circle!
Remember, this is just for fun and is not meant to be stressful.
Keep in mind what Molly Peacock’s books suggested. Look at a line, a stanza, sentences, and images; describe what you like or don’t like; and offer an opinion. If you missed my review of her book, check it out here.
Also, sign up for the 2011 Fearless Poetry Reading Challenge because its simple; you only need to read 1 book of poetry. Please contribute to the growing list of 2011 Indie Lit Award Poetry Suggestions, visit the stops on the National Poetry Month Blog Tour from April.
Today's poem is from Erika Meitner's (I interviewed her in 2009) Ideal Cities:
O Edinburgh (page 18)
it was night & we were always drunk or it was day (gray day) & I'd buy boxes of clementines on my way from school & keep them outside my window on the sill so they'd stay cool -- O Edinburgh, where we'd mash ourselves together on that shelf of bed after you lined up shoes to toss, one by one, at the heater on the wall -- open coils that glowed orange for 15-minute increments like a toaster, & when you'd hit the button your shoes would thud like large fish tails slapping the sides of a boat & we rose with the wind's current, its November brogue, & O Edinburgh, it spoke in tongues, flapped doors open & shut, howled until I couldn't remember exactly what happened in the dark except that we curled ourselves up into the smallest specks until I wept over a horoscope & someone else's tattoo & I never loved you because I was a wall of a city I had never been to
Let me know your thoughts, ideas, feelings, impressions. Let’s have a great discussion…pick a line, pick an image, pick a sentence.
I’ve you missed the other Virtual Poetry Circles. It’s never too late to join the discussion.