Stone Soup Croutons, 11-20-17, Homebound

Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions butchered picked up from poems overheard from Stone Soup'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. To paraphrase Lorne Michaels, this poem doesn't go up because it's ready, it goes on because it's Tuesday morning.

Thanks to Krystal Spencer and Curtis Luke for a fine double feature yesterday. It's the Monday before Thanksgiving, and my thoughts inevitably turned to the inevitable clashes between families that will take place this Thursday. This feeling emerged in spite of the overall feeling of unity among the audience and the readers.

Someday my mind will be in sync with the rest of the world--or at least the rest of the people in a small room. But until then, here is this week's poem.


Homebound

Spells only bind those
who believe, a shadow needed
to cast and catch another's shade.

Who are you talking about?
Sins roll by like end credits.
Salt pours on a still-alive bird.

Tonight

Krystal Spencer and Curtis Luke are featuring tonight at Stone Soup.

 

November 20: Stone Soup! Krystal Spencer! Curtis Luke!

Krystal Spencer and Curtis Luke wowed me on Stone Soup's open mic a couple of weeks back. I offered her a feature, and she said yes. You will see them both this Monday. This will be the second-to-last feature held at the Out of The Blue's current location on Massachusetts Avenue. I hope you are there.