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

Salta

Green-dusted, meandering hills that welcome.
Pink crossed cathedrals packed with hymns,
with earthly kneelers, so sincere.
My lungs open, chest rises, eyes grin.

Pink crossed cathedrals packed with hymns
and dark uniform-clad children.
My lungs open, chest rises, eyes grin
as hot light hits the siesta-time square.

Dark uniform-clad children
with school bags, they play futbol in sandals,
as hot light hits the siesta-time square.
Jesus hunkers down from the hillside.

With school bags, they play futbol in sandals
despite crowded streets and vendors.
Jesus hunkers down from the hillside
at fat abuelas with coca, that chew, and spit, and smile.

Despite crowded streets and vendors
girls in orange panchos sneak by
fat abuelas with coca, that chew, and spit, and smile,
to reach the campo limits.

Girls in orange panchos sneak by
to their boys with horses and guitars
to reach the campo limits,
green-dusted, meandering hills that welcome.
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