loved the premise of this..much enjpyed

james

http://monsterbegood.com/

After 11 years of doing nothing but music, I discovered photography.
And after 4 years of doing nothing but photography, I discovered Bridge.
And after a year of doing nothing but Bridge, I sort of re-discovered reading,
which beget a re-discovery of writing prose, which beget a re-discovery of writing poetry, which beget this blog.

And then I turned 7.


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Thomas, the way this poem works through myth and into a real closet "where your clothes used to be" makes this a front page choice for me.  For me, all the IFS of the airy celebs of antiquity paired with the "had beens" with imaginative humanizing details brings a power to the final S of mythic proportions. 

lynn

Bravo for Front Page Pick!

[applause]

congrats, Thomas. Tom

It's good to see this one in the shop window. Congratulations, Thomas.

Great choice, Chicky.

The first five lines of this poem blow me away every time I read them.

Maggie

Had Icharus Flown by Night…

 
maybe he'd have been
the first man on the moon.

And had Prometheus never heard of fire,
maybe he'd have been a bird lover
and destroyed his liver the old-fashioned way.

dear Thomas

i enjoy how

And had Paris been gay,

could have the double bottom meaning of being city

as it might allude a bit to the film... Paris Is Burning

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Is_Burning_(film)


may the front page bring much confetti & applause

silent lotus

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Wow! Thanks so much for the selection! I'm honored.

I've had a horrible, horrible last two weeks. My dad's been battling Alzheimer's for over a decade and after two recent scares involving a fall and what we thought was a stroke, we hit the point where had to put him in a nursing home. It's been devastating for my mom - who goes there every day, all day - and for me the hurt just isn't seeing him, but seeing how much she's hurting.

Anyway, this really picked me up. Thanks.

one hell of a write.

enjoyed.

tiko