Poetry: 11-12-10

11-12-10

Gravel
scattered along
industrial sites
grey specks
sharply grating

Pumpkin
smashed head
seeds bound
stringy orange
strewn asphalt

Deer
bits pieces
red coagulant
exposed ribs
entrails highway

What I'm Reading

I've been working on finals, and that's about it...so I'll share a list of what I've been reading through recently. Some I read for school and other items just for my own interests.

"Tales of Simple" Langston Hughes
"The Negro Writer and the Racial Mountain" Langston Hughes
"Blueprint for Negro Writing" Richard Wright
"Black Boy" Richard Wright
"Between the World and Me" Richard Wright
"The Bluest Eye" Toni Morrison
"On the Road" Jack Kerouac
"Holidays on Ice" David Sedaris
"Zombie Haiku" Ryan Mecum
"An Experiment in Misery" Stephen Crane
"The Damned Thing" Ambrose Bierce
"Ballad of Reading Gaol" Oscar Wilde
"The Ambitious Guest" Nathaniel Hawthorne

Wilde and NaNoWriMo

So, I've been busy trying to collect my thoughts on how I'm going to finish out this quarter of school. In my down time I'm working on my NaNoWriMo contributions. My novella that I'm working on is actually a collection of my New York City travel adventures intermixed with surrealist flash fiction. I draw that parallel because my experiences in New York were arguable surreal. If you want to be writing buddies I am wildecross on that page...and you will soon see how I developed that user name.

I'm a nerd...*waits for the gasps to subside* I know, I know. Hard to believe isn't it. Anyway for Halloween I had three costumes and one of which was Oscar Wilde. If you are unfamiliar with his work you should click and educate yourself. Oh, and Netflix usually has two versions of "The Importance of Being Ernest" on there at any given time, and one version of "The Picture of Dorian Grey."
Anyway here is what he looked like...


And this is me as him...





I entered a costume contest on Vampirefreaks.com with my pictures, so that's why I'm holding the signs...and now you can find me over there if you wish. I really need to centralize all of my internet presence. It's pretty far-reaching, so perhaps it may be a bit majestic once I have it all consolidated.

J. Lannan

When life gives you annoyance, long waits and near-death experiences...

...write poetry.
My day in poetry form.

Puppy Wuppy

Wet noses
soft hair
curly, wire,
and smooth
brindle
dependable
a friend
through and through

A hound
and a beagle
A walk to my car
bounding and free
yapping,
and barking
I turn askew
"IF YOU SO MUCH AS SNIFF ME
IT WILL BE THE LAST THING YOU EVER DO!"

They run

I don't really like dogs

11-1-10

Head-on avoidance
Bare fuel
Ten miles over
Two hours
Three minutes
Rounding up
I named it
Wilder
And Grey
but they were grey
already
As are we all
a world of shades
Shiny black shoes
grey striped grit
two dollars
five levels
token
of affliction
if only we could hope
to live
so boldly


High

I like the roof
the world all around
the city lies before me
I am above them
except those
in the distance



Declaration of Inspiration

We, the artists
in a world that
make-believe
we are mad
to capture fancy
and not forget
we will stare
life blinks
all fleeting