The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Wed 5/17/06)

[RetroLounge]

Desire

This desire
is a kind of sleeping,
a kind of forgetting,
a lost childhood.

I begin to see myself as a skin cave,
dark, without details.
You and I are there having tea,
stirring the tea with our bones,
each with our own bones.

I would drink your reflection
but I cannot find the cup,
I cannot find my hands.

Jennifer Tseng

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Jennifer Tseng was born in Indiana and raised in California. She received her MA in Asian American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, her MFA from the University of Houston and she was twice a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. In addition to having taught Asian American Studies and Creative Writing at UCLA and Hampshire College respectively, she has taught Poetic Forms for Khmer Girls in Action in Long Beach and Poetry in Translation for the A Room of Her Own Foundation in New Mexico. Her poetry and prose have appeared in Barrow Street, Glimmer Train Stories, Indiana Review, Ploughshares and elsewhere. She lives in California and Massachusetts.

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RL

If you have a request for a certain Poet, post their name in the thread and I will find a poem by them and post it...

if you want to see some of my poetry, see the blog at:
http://www.myspace.com/retropaul

[miss_american_pie]

1. "stirring the tea with our bones"

There's an image I could have done without.

[RetroLounge]

3. No, you needed to see that image

and let it stir something inside of you, which will incubate for a while, then come out in your writing as an even better image.



RL

[miss_american_pie]

4. Are you going to make me argue with you?

As my baby has been waking me up in the middle of my REM sleep for weeks now, I have all sorts of odd images of my own in my writing TYVM.

[RetroLounge]

5. Yes, we should argue with each other

over a cup of coffee at a local cafe near here...

RL

p.s. Why are you sleeping with R.E.M.?

[miss_american_pie]

With whom should I sleep then?

[RetroLounge]

7. We can argue about that too...

I love a good long vigorous hot sweaty...

...discussion.



RL

[miss_american_pie]

8. Isn't that just like a man

All talk, no action.

[RetroLounge]

9. Oh, I've seen your latest picture in the photo threads

there will be plenty of action, I guarantee it...

...can you handle it, is the better question.

RL

[miss_american_pie]

10. ...

I could pose for and post that picture. What do you think?

[RetroLounge]

11. Please...

Pretty please...

RL

[miss_american_pie]

12. ....

Since you asked so sweetly...

[RetroLounge]

13. Oh, I can be very sweet.

really...

RL

[miss_american_pie]

14. ...

Proof?

[tigereye]

2. nice

beautiful images!

[Xipe Totec]

15. Excellent poetry

and and interesting picture; looks as if she has wings and a halo.