Tag: construction

• * salvaging with kay ryan

  Salvage – Kay Ryan The wreck is a fact. The worst has happened. The salvage trucks back in and the salvage men begin to sort and stack, whistling as they work. Thanks be to god—again— for extractable elements which are not carriers of pain, for this periodic table at which the self-taught salvagers disassemble the…

  José Angel Araguz

  December 18, 2015

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• * Sylvia Plath, boarded trains & the friday influence

  Metaphors – Sylvia Plath I’m a riddle in nine syllables, An elephant, a ponderous house, A melon strolling on two tendrils. O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers! This loaf’s big with its yeasty rising. Money’s new-minted in this fat purse. I’m a means, a stage, a cow in calf. I’ve eaten a bag of green…

  José Angel Araguz

  November 16, 2012

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• * strange week 2: tree yoga & cinquains

  So: another strange week has come upon us. (No – nothing to do with the election.  Well, not really.) There has been some construction going on in our house these past two weeks, much of it occurring on my days off – which are the days that I sit down to formulate the good thoughts…

  José Angel Araguz

  November 9, 2012

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  astrology, bookstore, chapbook, cinquains, construction, Corpus Christi, creative writing, Eugene Oregon, Jose Angel Araguz, literature, lyric poems, poetry, poetry workshop, short lyric poems, the friday influence, The Wall, Tiger’s Eye Press, trees, Virgo, writing, yoga