—Public Domain Photos
LIMINAL
Homage to The Book of Dreams, Nina George
(Crown, 2019)
in between
neither here nor there
• asleep . . . awake
• conscious . . . unconscious
• birth . . . death
• labyrinth . . . straight line
• dream, coma, déjà vu, insanity, little death
• memory . . . amnesia
• androgynous
• previous . . . next
• tug-of-war, blind man’s bluff
• light . . . dark
• heaven . . . hell
• begin . . . end
• costume, mask
• yes . . . no
• window, mirror, lens
poet friend said liminal overused
yet I remain intrigued by otherness
an archive of myself
Homage to The Book of Dreams, Nina George
(Crown, 2019)
in between
neither here nor there
• asleep . . . awake
• conscious . . . unconscious
• birth . . . death
• labyrinth . . . straight line
• dream, coma, déjà vu, insanity, little death
• memory . . . amnesia
• androgynous
• previous . . . next
• tug-of-war, blind man’s bluff
• light . . . dark
• heaven . . . hell
• begin . . . end
• costume, mask
• yes . . . no
• window, mirror, lens
poet friend said liminal overused
yet I remain intrigued by otherness
an archive of myself
WHO IS JOSEPH BELLOWS?
TO: Joseph
FROM: MSABM (The Museum Staff Against
Bellows’ Messes)
stinky pinky two-by-four
couldn’t get through the museum door
because of all the junk on the floor
TO: Joseph
FROM: MSABM (You know who we are.)
the goops* have no manners
they throw their bananners
on anyone’s spot
but their own
*MSABM is highly suspicious that Joseph might be
related to the goops
TO: Joseph
FROM: MSABM (You certainly know who we are.)
the three little pigs
all rolled into one
is Joseph Bellows
with his shirt undone
TO: Joseph
FROM: MSABM (The Museum Staff Against
Bellows’ Messes)
stinky pinky two-by-four
couldn’t get through the museum door
because of all the junk on the floor
TO: Joseph
FROM: MSABM (You know who we are.)
the goops* have no manners
they throw their bananners
on anyone’s spot
but their own
*MSABM is highly suspicious that Joseph might be
related to the goops
TO: Joseph
FROM: MSABM (You certainly know who we are.)
the three little pigs
all rolled into one
is Joseph Bellows
with his shirt undone
GOD’S POEM
In the beginning was the Word
And the Word was with God
And the Word was God (John 1:1)
God said, “Let us create a living Word”
And God created human beings
And the human beings were in the image of God
God scribed a line of joy
And added a contrapuntal note of sorrow
And the humans became a verse
Then God colored the humans
And rhymed and sounded them
And the beings repeated many stanzas of life
God said, “Our poem is not yet finished.”
And the humans continued to struggle, work the
poem
Until they were at-oned with God
And God saw everything that he had made,
and, behold,
it was very good. (Genesis 1:31)
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Today’s LittleNip:
SWEET CRUSH
—Fay L. Loomis
Lyle Sweet
sweet Sweet
young Sweet
too sweet
no Sweet
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—Medusa, with thanks to Fay Loomis for today’s fine poetry!
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Northern California and otherwheres,
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(http://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/p/wtf.html)
in the links at the top of this page—
and keep an eye on this link and on
the daily Kitchen for happenings
that might pop up
—or get changed!—
during the week.
Photos in this column can be enlarged by
clicking on them once, then clicking on the x
in the top right corner to come back to Medusa.
Poets’ bios appear on their first MK visit.
To find previous posts, type the name
of the poet (or poem) into the little
beige box at the top left-hand side
of this column. See also
Medusa’s Rapsheet at the bottom
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side of this column to find
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Miss a post?
You can find our most recent ones by
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Or there's an "Older Posts" button
at the bottom of this column.
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Would you like to be a SnakePal?
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that which was previously published—
and collaborations are welcome.
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