oh yes, poetry month

[timeripple]

I'd really like to write a long, thoughtful post about how Nobunaga no Chef is amazing and full of historical figures bursting into song and cape-swishing. But I've got a lot of reading to do tonight, so have a poem instead.

"On Finding a Bird Skull"

If she wants
to say bird
not finch
not starling
not snipe

let her

They all have
rough tongues
hollow bones
heads
made mostly

of eye

(Rebecca Farivar, from Correct Animal, Octopus Books, 2011).

Comments

[idiosyncreant.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool--I've needed a recommendation for a poetic translation of the Iliad. I am still unread, for the very reason that if it's not reading as poetry, reading it just for the myth seems pointless to me. X)
Loved Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, would not have been able to read it otherwise.

For online poetry...I know places I've sent stuff to! I love inkscrawl.com, Strong Verse has some good stuff and whatever they have is going to be pretty plain-spoken, if you like that sort of thing as much as I do. Goblin Fruit is very strong on mood, Through the Gate is another like inkscrawl, I always find something to like there. Strong Verse is the only not-genre venue in this list, mainly because I try to read in my field at the very least. -_-;

"Today I dissected a squid."

Sounds marvelous; I love odd, prosaic opening lines like that. I hope my library has some of these.