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  • life in America up until now

    LIFE IN AMERICA UP UNTIL NOW (for Steve Esmedina) The white people have gone crazy in the back seats of All American nouns looking for the sex life that fell between the cracks, meanwhile screaming the rudeness of Romantic love that will them in court where they'll tell the Judge that it's only rock and roll and that there was ...
    Posted to Poems by Ted Burke on September 1, 2008

  • why we fight

    a whisper along the shorelinebecomes a hacking coughwhile we lean against the sea wall, taking rasping hitsoff smoked salmon. wooden matches are the keysays Tony, half in the bagand half dressed from work,wooden matches give yathe best blast of sulphurwhen the flame lightsthe Virginia weedand makes for a choice choking burnwhen you hold it all ...
    Posted to Poems by Ted Burke on August 24, 2008

  • Re: Thur,OPP:"White Night" by Paul Auster

    By'' common bond'', I mean a potential reading audience who might recognize their own experience in the subjectsthat Auster's seemingly disembodied scribe might reach. The power of the poem is in what is unclear, whether the writer is engaging in some sort of externalized interior monologue through taking pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) ...
    Posted to Poems by Ted Burke on August 14, 2008

  • Thur,OPP:"White Night" by Paul Auster

    An ironic choice, I suppose, considering my post earlier against writing that reflects upon its own processes, but Auster's style is so clear of superfluous adjectives, verbs and dead weight qualifiers that he gets across some of the mystery involved in composing a verse, a quality that eludes other writers. A novelist by trade, Auster's ...
    Posted to Poems by Ted Burke on August 14, 2008
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