PERMISSIONS: To view the blog, post on it, and comment on posts, you must be invited. I will send you an email invitation to join the blog, and then you must follow the instructions to join up and begin posting. You can't join the blog without first creating a Google account.

POSTING: Post your poems by clicking "New Post" at the top right of the page. Paste your poem into the window.

LABELING: Then label the post with the assignment name (i.e., "confessional poem," "sonnet," etc.), your name (i.e., "Tony Barnstone," etc.), and the week (i.e., "week one," "week two," but not "week 1"--spell out your numbers). If you post a poem in week two that is due in week three, label it "week three." When you begin to type in a label, the program will fill it in for you, so your post will be labeled with the rest of the poems in the same category.

COMMENTING: Afterwards, you can "comment" on the posts of your classmates. Post "group one" and "group two" one-page critical responses as "comments" on the posted poems, but also print out copies for me and for the poet and give them to us in class.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Rinds in the Loam

A party sits and eats in pungent dirt and leaves and grass,
Now they begin to drink from hollowed rinds found in the loam.

I meet a wooden man with an Easter Island Face,
He carves a deep and hollow tune I cannot erase.

She walks on thin glass heels through crevices in granite,
Hollow laughter rings just behind, shrieking from stone to stone.

A freshly minted mime shines a Windex-clear window.
His hollow motions haunt me as my grinding teeth groan.

A blacksmith pounds his anvil at an olde-timey faire,
His hammer strikes are hollow; he does not pound for fares.

The old king feels arthritic while he waits for Ragnorak,
His sword hangs at his side useless it is forged from hollow bone.

A wizard plays at solitaire in the halls of Xanadu,
This sage does not feel pride though, for every hand he knew.

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