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Archives for September, 2011

Answers

Posted by  on Friday, September 30th 2011     

by James Schwartz   I fall into prayer position, My arms around his breath. The rise and fall of the present, the moment. All I ever needed or dreamt of.   In his twinkling eyes, Answers replace questions, I need not look up. To see that familiar grin, Or know that, It is raining outside. [...]

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In Every Doorway (Reprise)

Posted by  on Wednesday, September 28th 2011     

by James Schwartz In every doorway lies a poem. In his wilds I build my poem. Of muse and ink and literary labor. And all our dreams we sink and savor.  * from The Literary Party: Growing Up Gay and Amish in America 

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New Chapters (Fourth Verse)

Posted by  on Wednesday, September 28th 2011     

by James Schwartz His eyes well, smile, stay, leave. With him my heart and here. There is nothing to bereave. For the massacred heart feared dear.

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Belated “Bye, Borders Book Store!”

Posted by  on Tuesday, September 27th 2011     

One day I will (along with many others) really miss those fine moments at Borders Book Store – real books with actual pages to touch and the smell of coffee and chocolate from the cafe, classical or alternative music in the background (live music on weekends) and all those interesting poets, writers, musicians we used to meet there [...]

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Breakfast Blend

Posted by  on Tuesday, September 27th 2011     

by James Schwartz The Bard’s web log: Now Serving Breakfast Blend! Civilians get wasted, Soldiers gaysted. Devout clubbers lay servitude to trend. No queer queries poetry untasted. War and Religion rage on in the dawn. The Soldier and Civilian part in the street. The Soldier to wells from which courage is drawn. Sailing the high [...]

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Pablo Neruda – If You Forget Me

Posted by  on Saturday, September 24th 2011     

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The Literary Party

Posted by  on Friday, September 23rd 2011     

by James Schwartz   Marsden Hartley. Robert Duncan. W.H. Auden. Chester Kallman. Yukio Mishima. Lord Byron. Charles “Badger” King. Ian Young. John Wieners. William Cory. Stan Persky. Langston Hughes. Pindar. Horatio Forbes Brown. Benjamin Musser. F.W.H Meyers. Pier Paolo Pasolini. Michelangelo Buonaroti. Friedrich Holderlin. Joe Brainard. Torquato Tasso. James Merrill. John Moray Stuart-Young. Paul Verlaine. [...]

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Hart Crane – Voyages

Posted by  on Friday, September 23rd 2011     

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Reblog: DADT Politiku

Posted by  on Monday, September 19th 2011     

by James Schwartz Historic midnight / Tomorrow is a new day / Dignity in the dawn. Reblog DADT Politiku: http://politiku.tumblr.com/post/10420203533/james-schwartz-dadt-politiku-historic-midnight  

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Dead Letter

Posted by  on Saturday, September 17th 2011     

Factory smoke and fog along the river. Kiss a girl and make her quiver. Kiss her right and you’re her lover. Lovers and warriors are what women go for. On the ground, head down, bodies all around, Manning thinks about his small town, as black smoke billows from exploding bombs. He envisions the lunch pail [...]

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