Dennis Saleh
Photo by Fish
INTERLUDE
—Dennis Saleh, Seaside
A man and a woman
are changing forms
They are becoming
transparent
They are having sex
but are losing definition
Tubes sliding in and
out of each other
Moisture gleam on
perspiring spectrums
__________________
Thanks, Dennis, for today's feature! Dennis Saleh has published books of poetry, prose, and art , and his work appears widely in magazines and collections in the US and overseas (including Brevities and Rattlesnake Review). He has a new poetry mini-chapbook, Journals, from Joyce Odam's Choice of Words Press (2009), and is included in two forthcoming poetry anthologies, Reeds and Rushes and Solace in So Many Words. Two of his collage series, Accretions #11 and #12, will be the covers for Blackbird 10, due Spring 2010. In 2011, he will be featured poet in an issue of Psychological Perspectives. He has read from his poetry, and a novel-in-progress set in Ancient Egypt, Bast, at the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose, CA.
With his own press, Comma Books, Dennis has done two books in co-imprint editions: Science Fiction Gold: Film Classics of the 50s (Comma/McGraw-Hill), and Rock Art: The Golden Age of Record Album Covers (Comma/Ballantine Books). His book of poems, This Is Not Surrealism, won the first chapbook competition from Willamette River Books.
The new Tule Review is out:
Sacramento Poetry Center's Winter edition of Tule Review is out, and it's a stunner! Perfect-bound and beautifully presented (thanks to editors Tim Kahl, Brad Buchanan and Emmanuel Siguake, with cover design by Richard Hansen), it's full of good poetry—a credit to our community! Now available at The Book Collector and around town. Deadline for the next issue is soon—March 31! Go to www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org/tulereview.htm for details.
USPL Kay Ryan will read in Modesto April 10:
•••Sat. (4/10), 7:30pm: US Poet Laureate Kay Ryan will read at Modesto Junior College. To order tickets: www.mjc.tix.com/Event.asp?Event=234354
_________________
GAME
—Dennis Saleh
Paper
loves
paper
No one
loves
rock
A scissors
is in
love
with
its
self
__________________
NIGHT LYRIC
—Dennis Saleh
The night sky
is the rough draft
of eternity
The stars
are blueprints
of the gods
The alignment
of hours
like stars
2.
The moon
has nothing
to say
and says it
more
eloquently
than
can be
imagined
__________________
MIDNIGHT
—Dennis Saleh
The pouted
lips of the
moon
are
arsenic
stained
Addicted
it sips its
silence
___________________
HOLLYWOOD
—Dennis Saleh
The palms' whispered disapproval
sifts overhead How long
has this been going on
How much more of this
will we be able to stand
Just like songs going on and on
Love Hats Beach flats Fuckers
Orange groves long gone
Seniors' discounts
And the beach still more or less
out of reach like no conclusion
Wait Another minute arrives
Peter Lorre still alive
coming like a sunset
—Dennis Saleh, Seaside
A man and a woman
are changing forms
They are becoming
transparent
They are having sex
but are losing definition
Tubes sliding in and
out of each other
Moisture gleam on
perspiring spectrums
__________________
Thanks, Dennis, for today's feature! Dennis Saleh has published books of poetry, prose, and art , and his work appears widely in magazines and collections in the US and overseas (including Brevities and Rattlesnake Review). He has a new poetry mini-chapbook, Journals, from Joyce Odam's Choice of Words Press (2009), and is included in two forthcoming poetry anthologies, Reeds and Rushes and Solace in So Many Words. Two of his collage series, Accretions #11 and #12, will be the covers for Blackbird 10, due Spring 2010. In 2011, he will be featured poet in an issue of Psychological Perspectives. He has read from his poetry, and a novel-in-progress set in Ancient Egypt, Bast, at the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose, CA.
With his own press, Comma Books, Dennis has done two books in co-imprint editions: Science Fiction Gold: Film Classics of the 50s (Comma/McGraw-Hill), and Rock Art: The Golden Age of Record Album Covers (Comma/Ballantine Books). His book of poems, This Is Not Surrealism, won the first chapbook competition from Willamette River Books.
The new Tule Review is out:
Sacramento Poetry Center's Winter edition of Tule Review is out, and it's a stunner! Perfect-bound and beautifully presented (thanks to editors Tim Kahl, Brad Buchanan and Emmanuel Siguake, with cover design by Richard Hansen), it's full of good poetry—a credit to our community! Now available at The Book Collector and around town. Deadline for the next issue is soon—March 31! Go to www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org/tulereview.htm for details.
USPL Kay Ryan will read in Modesto April 10:
•••Sat. (4/10), 7:30pm: US Poet Laureate Kay Ryan will read at Modesto Junior College. To order tickets: www.mjc.tix.com/Event.asp?Event=234354
_________________
GAME
—Dennis Saleh
Paper
loves
paper
No one
loves
rock
A scissors
is in
love
with
its
self
__________________
NIGHT LYRIC
—Dennis Saleh
The night sky
is the rough draft
of eternity
The stars
are blueprints
of the gods
The alignment
of hours
like stars
2.
The moon
has nothing
to say
and says it
more
eloquently
than
can be
imagined
__________________
MIDNIGHT
—Dennis Saleh
The pouted
lips of the
moon
are
arsenic
stained
Addicted
it sips its
silence
___________________
HOLLYWOOD
—Dennis Saleh
The palms' whispered disapproval
sifts overhead How long
has this been going on
How much more of this
will we be able to stand
Just like songs going on and on
Love Hats Beach flats Fuckers
Orange groves long gone
Seniors' discounts
And the beach still more or less
out of reach like no conclusion
Wait Another minute arrives
Peter Lorre still alive
coming like a sunset
Uma Thurman as Medusa
(My, what LADYLIKE little snakes she has...)
Today's LittleNip:
HITLER IN PARIS
—Dennis Saleh
(Hitler had passed through Paris incognito...)
"There
are
too
many
French-
men
in
the
streets."
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—Medusa
