cassandrabeth
- The first snow dusted between corn stubble/at the field’s center/suddenly rises, re-falls, becomes/a white-winged multitudeabout 19 hours ago from Identica
- Writing Farsi script/on the page of the sky/blackbirds roost/in graceful dots and curves/then fly off all at once/like a poem 6:39 AM Nov 6th from Identica
- Two costumed revelers embrace/the streetperson fallen on wet leaves/set him upright/gravely hand him his bottle -/he weaves away, saluting.5:17 PM Oct 31st from Identica
- Trapped with them, three of us exchange glances. Beside us, a pitcher of orange juice, a fancy coffee machine.4:00 PM Oct 27th from Identica
- In the waiting room, a masked teen coughs miserably. Her mother, in boots, chic tights and a short black dress, plays with a cell phone.3:55 PM Oct 27th from Identica
- "Aha!" says the nurse, triumphantly tapping the small vein. My blood obediently flows into four vials: purple, yellow, green, blue.3:51 PM Oct 27th from Identica
- The EKG man is doing research. "What do you recall? They tell me,'you never put electrodes on my legs.' You see? The memory lies to us."3:49 PM Oct 27th from Identica
- Quebec's H1N1 self-care guide and some commentary & advice 3:04 PM Oct 27th from web
- At the first flakes/they set up the boards./But it's 50 today/rollerblades on asphalt/wistful kids in t shirts/take tennis ball slapshots.6:00 AM Oct 25th from Identica
- (3) the bionic implant in his back, his stitched skin – suddenly it’s fatal to be real.7:24 AM Oct 24th from Identica
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Tell my poet-friend, “we must go quickly!”/”Good luck,” he replies, shows me7:23 AM Oct 24th from Identica
- (1) I dream a volcano beneath a familiar lake/water rising/red fire in the rocks.7:23 AM Oct 24th from Identica
- @ wow. wonderful poem and insight, Ivy.8:11 AM Oct 23rd from web in reply to IvyAlvarez
- @ haha!8:09 AM Oct 23rd from web in reply to porousborders
- Like my neighbor's lace curtains/snow veils the beyond./The one entices, the other/ I know all too well. 2:30 PM Oct 22nd from Identica
- The tree-leaf fingertip connection/so tenuous it’s severed/by a single drop of water. 8:28 AM Oct 22nd from Identica
- Indian summer day, in colors of the real India-saffron, cumin, cardamom green, cinnamon brown-above it all, the upside-down blue sea.11:53 AM Oct 21st from Identica
- The Poaching Pope: cassandra's thoughts on the Vatican's "overture" toward Anglicans 9:42 AM Oct 21st from Identica
- Red leaves on a wall/Purple berries stain the trottoir/Pecking holes in autumn/the starlings scatter. 7:30 AM Oct 20th from Identica
- @ Nice, this 2-parter!7:08 AM Oct 20th from web in reply to forgottenworks
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- Name Beth Adams
- Location Montreal
- Web http://www.cassan...
- Bio Writer, designer, musician, sometime philosopher; co-editor of qarrtsiluni online literary magazine
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