Ruby Street

off screen thresholds become blind sky

seeing air blue-filled world white dark

curves model curves life form proceeds shaped like songs green and hungry caught in congress with the process there's a long long press up unless the hand that feels us picks the bloom for the fire to learn by looking into this white and green curled like comment there are ways if not understood

mechanical dreams to do with locks

A second hay(na)ku anthology has hit the shops while I’ve been fluttering around the new job/new city thing. Edited by Jean Vengua and Mark Young , The Hay(na)ku Anthology Vol II is now available from Meritage Press. The volume is a joint production of Meritage Press (St. Helena & San Francisco) and xPress(ed) (Puhos, Finland). As most of you probably know by now, the hay(na)ku form consist of a tercet comprised of one-, two- and three-word lines. As you’ll see in the book, and possibly even on this and other blogs, many poets have also created variations from the basic form. The anthology contains work from 51 poets, including one (ah-hem) newly based in Adelaide. The form has got around the world and the National Autonomous University of Mexico/Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) is now preparing a full Spanish translation of The First Hay(na)ku Anthology for future release.

what you are is neither agreed in this era of nomad screed chasing your ear with pollute’s bead

flux of sound, syntactical manoeuvres, dictions

Hay(na)ku from The First Hay(na)ku Anthology have been translated into Spanish and available at Periodico de Poesia associated with the National Autonomous University of Mexico/Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). On the site are translations (and originals) by: Michael Chmielecki Craig Freeman Harry K. Stammer Crag Hill Jill Jones Tom Beckett Sheila E. Murphy The translators are Argel Corpus, Rebeka Lembo, Liliana Andrade, Itzel Rivas, Melisa Larios, Alfredo Villegas, Luis Felipe Alvarez, Alejandra Navarrete, María González de León, and Álvaro García. They are part of UNAM's Faculty of Literature and Philosophy/Facultad de Filosofía y Letras.

music white bird dream the end

so I have been busy - ok? no wonder I don' have the time to be writing a poem

fragile tears or strong enough falling all that’s left the uncertain lengths there are possibles, rain on earth lacunae and lostness but are everywhere and to hear crackles of diodes think of a few recovered scraps ardent/ ears/ eyes the taste, skin some future time will think ? acts in time along with leaves - with a fragment from a fragment of Sappho

with morning brilliance filters, silhouettes plans here's our montage maps, negatives our grain contact is the art - for A

electric dark extends footsteps among secrets

Say what is worth the monsters Only when there’s cowboys in here

* city moves through itself as forms list songs mysteries self that makes place image hides in the city no dreams journey with object’s place