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–Bianca
Thank you for looking! And feel free to poke around!
But please go here for news, poetry comics, and updates:
http://whoisthatsupposedtobe.blogspot.com/
–Bianca
Friday, February 17, 2-4
Lillian Vernon Creative Writer’s House
58 West 10th Street, New York, NY
Six artists who use both text and image in their poetry discuss the merging of the two media into one artform. Conversation moderated by Matthea Harvey.
(image from Sommer Browning’s “Either Way I’m Celebrating”)
New Poetry Comics installment on The The featuring Mahendra Singh!
The Stag Upon the Vine
(V; 15)
A hunted Stag concealed in vines,
in this verdant tropic havoc
grown riotous thick by fecund luck
till hounds and men lose heart, resigns
the chase and he’s free again
to devour the vine, all decency defy
till they hear him, hounds and men
they return and set on him to die
a just punishment, he now knows too late
forget me, he cries, yet remember my fate
then falls and the pack falls upon him
stoic he dies while huntsmen join in
forsake gratitude for greed, the egotist’s whim:
betray thy saviour and revel in thy sin
Le Cerf et la Vigne
(V; 15)
Un cerf, à la faveur d’une vigne fort haute,
Et telle qu’on en voit en de certains climats,
S’étant mis à couvert et sauvé du trépas,
Les veneurs, pour ce coup, croyaient leurs chiens en faute;
Ils les rappellent donc. Le cerf, hors de danger,
Broute sa bienfaitrice : ingratitude extrême !
On l’entend, on retourne, on le fait déloger :
Il vient mourir en ce lieu même.
« J’ai mérité, dit-il, ce juste châtiment :
Profitez-en, ingrats. » Il tombe en ce moment.
La meute en fait curée : il lui fut inutile
De pleurer aux veneurs à sa mort arrivés.
Vraie image de ceux qui profanent l’asile
Qui les a conservés.
My poem “You Were Lost in the Delta Quadrant” is up on the InDigest podcast! Last year I also made this tiny video of part of this poem. Which I shall place here: