Saturday, December 06, 2008
ArLiJo Features Poets Cliff Browder and Lolette Kuby
ArLiJo.com is currently featuring poets Cliff Browder and Lolette Kuby.
Genesis
Secrets of wheat
Wrens nesting
And a small boy
Friendly with stars report
Theology dissolved
In a faint whisper
Of wind on water
Brooding a ripple or a world.
First appeared in Galley Sail Review.
Copyright © 1961 by Clifford Browder.
Biography:
Clifford Browder is a writer and retired freelance editor living in New York City. His poetry has appeared in Heliotrope, The Main Street Rag, Runes, Snake Nation Review, The Bitter Oleander, nycBigCityLit.com, and elsewhere. Excerpts from his long novel Metropolis have been published in New York Stories, Quarter After Eight, and Third Coast. He is also author of two published biographies and a critical study of the French Surrealist poet André Breton.
Your Soup
But where are the carrots?
Bright phalluses forged in the netherworld sun?
You must not draw too soon
Or wait too long
And where is the salt?
The flavorful gold, the licking stone?
Beware unbandaged cuts
Pinched or poured it cannot be undone
And where the onion?
Solidified tears?
Embracing itself. Unfold it you find
Nothing, a socket sans eye
And water? There must be water.
Secretly tubed from the top of the mountain?
Mine it like diamonds
Wrest it from daybreak
And where is the meat?
On its way to you?
The meat is dozing in the sun
Swatting flies with its tail
The meat is grazing in the field
Running in its own wool
It must be blindfolded and gagged
It must be silenced and tamed.
The meat is still eating.
Copyright © 2008 by Lolette Kuby. Your Soup first appeared in The New Laurel Review.
Biography:
Lolette Kuby, an expat from Cleveland, Ohio, now living in Toronto, holds a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University and taught at the Cleveland State University. She now does freelance editing. Her book publications include In Enormous Water; Set Down Here; Inwit (poetry collections); An Uncommon Poet for the Common Man: A Study of Philip Larkin's Poetry; and last year a short story collection, Out of Cleveland.
Click on this link to read Issue 22 of ArLiJo.com
Genesis
Secrets of wheat
Wrens nesting
And a small boy
Friendly with stars report
Theology dissolved
In a faint whisper
Of wind on water
Brooding a ripple or a world.
First appeared in Galley Sail Review.
Copyright © 1961 by Clifford Browder.
Biography:
Clifford Browder is a writer and retired freelance editor living in New York City. His poetry has appeared in Heliotrope, The Main Street Rag, Runes, Snake Nation Review, The Bitter Oleander, nycBigCityLit.com, and elsewhere. Excerpts from his long novel Metropolis have been published in New York Stories, Quarter After Eight, and Third Coast. He is also author of two published biographies and a critical study of the French Surrealist poet André Breton.
Your Soup
But where are the carrots?
Bright phalluses forged in the netherworld sun?
You must not draw too soon
Or wait too long
And where is the salt?
The flavorful gold, the licking stone?
Beware unbandaged cuts
Pinched or poured it cannot be undone
And where the onion?
Solidified tears?
Embracing itself. Unfold it you find
Nothing, a socket sans eye
And water? There must be water.
Secretly tubed from the top of the mountain?
Mine it like diamonds
Wrest it from daybreak
And where is the meat?
On its way to you?
The meat is dozing in the sun
Swatting flies with its tail
The meat is grazing in the field
Running in its own wool
It must be blindfolded and gagged
It must be silenced and tamed.
The meat is still eating.
Copyright © 2008 by Lolette Kuby. Your Soup first appeared in The New Laurel Review.
Biography:
Lolette Kuby, an expat from Cleveland, Ohio, now living in Toronto, holds a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University and taught at the Cleveland State University. She now does freelance editing. Her book publications include In Enormous Water; Set Down Here; Inwit (poetry collections); An Uncommon Poet for the Common Man: A Study of Philip Larkin's Poetry; and last year a short story collection, Out of Cleveland.
Click on this link to read Issue 22 of ArLiJo.com
