APRIL POETRY

APRIL WINDOW

To write hokku one should live in a house which either has a leaky roof or one with the potential of leaking. ~R.H. Blyth

WINDOW IN THE ROOF OVERHEAD
EYE HOLE JUST ABOVE A BRIDAL BED

WHERE THE ROOF LEAKS IN
THE GODHEAD CRYSTALLINE


©2014 “April Window” stephaniepope mythopoetry.com


notes
Micropoetry:  #poetheme  #window #mythopoetics

Basho wrote: A spring rain/a roof leak trickles/down the wasps' nest . (R.H. Blyth, trans.)

"Poetry is a perfumed wasp, a feathered ladder." -Brian Landis, Feathered Ladder (Fisher King Press, 2014), p. 112. see also  pp. 116-117 for the dual nature of the wasp to transgress mythic boundaries through narrative metalepsis revealing a hidden dialog going on between a world in which one tells and a world of which one tells; truly a wind's eye or wind's hole or window metaphor at work.

image credit: original painting, 1892 by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, “in Bed-The Kiss”
http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/henri-de-toulouse-lautrec/in-bed-the-kiss-1892
Overlays applied to original image and then set into both round and rounded corner frames by stephanie pope image reproduction ©2014 mythopoetry.com

APRIL POETRY : PRAXED

PRAXED

when heart falls between my toes
sole
and earth knows
_ole, the ole earth knows
how I've step_ed
re membering me

©2014 “The Missing Mark Miss-ing The Mark” stephaniepope mythopoetry.com


notes

1. The "h" space or h-space; the becoming time in space and the becoming space in time; Derrida calls this _ole a temporized zone for making (in both senses opening that space between what the eye sees (sole, soul & _ole) and what the ear hears (soul and ole).  see http://www.mythopoetry.com/dialogs/hero_seven.html (http://www.mythopoetry.com/dialogs/hero_seven.html)

The temporatized zone Derrida thinks both defers what meanings are happening there and differences them uniquely or 'solely' or  as if they are metaphorically from an 'ensouled within an en-soled' and maybe even, a new _not word forms in this space as another poetically worded word: "s'old"; it's telling, perhaps, of an older order in perfect mind through a lost language. (see also sophrosune or sophrosyne in "In The Summary Of A Brush Stroke" stephanie pope foreword to "Feathered Ladder, Dennis Patrick Slattery and Brian Landis, Fisher King Press, 2014 pp. 17-19. )  

2. Imaginal forms in the making; knot language racing the design: step_ed (stepped) might also yield another word-not-heard, step_ed as "stephed" opening the space for naming the unnamed as that of the poet-soul speaking for itself most personally but in a depersonlized way. see Dennis Slattery and Brian Landis,  "Feathered Ladder"; Fisher King Press, il piccolo editions; 1st edition (March 21, 2014)  (http://fisherkingpress.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=214) for its treatment of "knot language".   

SUNDAY POETRY : "THE FELT SCENTS"

WHEN SHE CAN SAFELY SHOW
MORE OF HER BODY THAN A NOSE & HAND

you’ll believe her

stand in rebuttal
that nose and hand― the " [...] " 
unseen eyes in quotes, the vowel opening
hidden mouth

You’d better believe “ [she] ” means it!

notes

""I vote with one hand and slap the Taliban with the other", this 51-year old tells me. #kandahar http://t.co/a57bEmt0HT
tweets Ayesha Wolasma (@awolasmal April 5, 2014)
hashtag #kandahar. Image redapted from pictwit photo