Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions picked from Stone Soup Poetry's open mic readers and features. I figure out a title (and sometimes the rest of the poem) later. You can read the other ones I've done since 2015 here.
I also have a book collecting the best of my first year of poems. Click here to purchase it.
A song of chalk was sung on Wednesday. Thanks to Gale Batchelder, Susan Berger-Jones and Judson Evans for a wonderful reading of their new book Chalk Song (get it here). A wonderful night of old and returning friends. So glad this book is complete.This is my crack at a crouton poem after hearing the feature again and watching some footage of Werner Herzog 's Cave of Forgotten Dreams documentary, which was the main inspiration behind Chalk Song. Tried to keep it short. Silly title with an in-joke for those old enough to get it. Thanks for reading.
Allez Oop!
Flattery gets you somewhere.
The same locale. at least,
as Yorick's last smile, holly leaf
caught in a cat's mouth.
the seven words you can't say
Rain feels awkward falling
if it has to follow buildings
as awkwardly as lightning
follows gunfire, another
unwilling accomplice,
beauty covering truth's tracks.
Handprints reveal there are
no accidents, only confessed
killings. Stalagmites and tites
fight each other while we
remember shapes of our killers
the victims that got away,
and, when calm, those we've
agreed with each other to be
not meat. We hope history can
discern crocodiles from our
mermaids. Survived so much,
we don't think our art can warn.
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| The gang is back. |
Special thanks to Mary Jennings, David Miller, Karen Sklany, Chris Robbins, Jan Rowe, Nancy Dodson, Jon Wesick, Bil Lewis, Carol Weston, Chris Fitzgerald, James Van Looy,, and of course features Gale Batchelder, Susan Berger-Jones and Judson Evans.
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