Let me share this intercepted e-mail with a link to short poems at hundredmountain.com:
Hey, Vic: In response to your short poems request at MountainWord, a subset of my Hundred Mountain home page online includes a section of short poems called “Epigrammar: Short Poems and Epigrams for a Post-Dow Industrial, Anti-Delusional Age.”
Take a read:
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Things that strike me about your short poems, Doug, at first reading: broad range of subjects (out of the box), light sense of humor, wit. I keep hitting next, next, next, can’t stop reading.
One of my favorites of yours so far:
LESSON PLAN
Sow the seeds of grief,
they will blossom in their time.
Sow seeds of equilibrium,
and you will harvest rhyme.
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Thanks, for all you do for the arts here in W.Va., thegazz.com and all that, thanks for cranking up all these blogs, and thanks also for the epigrams, the poems, the riffs, my friend.
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I just read Doug’s poems and really liked them. Especially:
“DISPOSSESSION No. 1 *
You take away his name
when you call him
‘Aqualung’–
Bill Dunn, Bill Dunn,
Bill Dunn, Bill Dunn–
Try it on your tongue.
* (Bill Dunn — known by many in Charleston, W.Va., as ‘Aqualung,’ is a well-known street person who pushes a shopping cart overloaded with jammed plastic bags and tossaway items he has scavenged. He was the model for the street person played by Nick Nolte in “Down and Out in Beverly Hills”)
Doug’s poems remind me a lot of Stephen Crane’s, whose poems, coincidentally, I left on your answering machine this evening, Vic.
Except Doug’s rhyme!
Sue Ellen,
Thanks for reading the Stephen Crane poems. I’ll post all or part of your telephone reading when time allows.
Thanks, Vic. I appreciate MountainWord a lot and your devotion to it. One of the blessings of the web is being able to set up, say, a corner on poetry related to West Virginia and Appalachia and invite all comers. Doug