THOSE SEX-ED UP PUNCTUATIONS

Speaking of Jose Garcia Villa, he is known in part for his "comma poems", where there's a comma after each word, a structure that he says could help regulate the reading of the poems. One of moi 9 billion peeps, m.cb sez

Eileen, I'm such a gossip gecko flicking my tongue all over, about the comma poems. But I don't think it's a scandal really. Whatever Jose's sexual orientation, the comma poems are, I think, an indication how he sucks a male organ, in slow rhythms, pause, suck, pause, suck, investing meaning in each pause meditating his energetic tongue against the beneficiary's glans, meditating on cock as life-giver, art fertilizer. I think Jose has a great sense of humor, and that, to a point, influenced his comma poems. Sex as, is text. Literature and sex are irresistibly entwined; and the other two, of course, are religion and politics. (Please don't spank and hate me, for saying this (somewhat) childish bit, about Jose.)

Right. Like I believe that spanking parenthetical. Honey--that ain't the meaning I invest in that pause.

Moi loves moi Peeps especially when they peep.

Now, m.cb has ordered a copy of THE SECRET LIVES OF PUNCTUATIONS, VOL. I where I yank out of their closets the semi-colon, colon, parenthesis, ellipsis, among others. I can hardly wait for m.cb's meditations on their sexual proclivities and such.

Until that Relish, here's the latest Relished W(h)ine List:

THE CITY SLICKER'S HARVEST (to date)
12 Santa Rosa plums
50 apricots
86 strawberries
1,451 basil leaves
327 purple basil leaves
267 mint leaves
405 pinches of parsley
3 zucchini
2 yellow squash
1 orange squash
114 tomatoes
40 green figs
17 green onion stalks
167 green peppers
5 red peppers
8 Japanese eggplants
45 purple table grapes


PUBLICATIONS
SHORT MOVIES, luminous poetry by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen and Márton Koppány (free .pdf here)

WARDOLLY, poems by Elizabeth Treadwell (Impressive: it's tenderly but fully realized poetry!)

WALDEN BOOK, poems by Allen Bramhall (lyrical pleasing & smart poems in a wonderfully designed chap presentation)

DOVEGLION: COLLECTED POEMS by Jose Garcia Villa (must-reading, to the extent any poetry collection is a must-read)

THE SINGERS, poems by Logan Ryan Smith (this poet has among the best ears of his generation)

SUBSISTENCE EQUIPMENT, poems by Brenda Iijima

THE CITY, poems by Ed Baker

NEIGHBOR, BOOK 4: FU: SION, poems by Ed Baker

ONE ARROW, A Flim Forum Press anthology featuring Brandon Shimoda, Thom Donovan, Jonathan Minton, Adam Golaski, Lori Anderson Moseman, Katie Kemple, Christopher Fritton, Eric Gelsinger, Jacqueline Lyons, John Cotter, Jeff Parris, Michael Ives, Jaime Corbacho, Matthew Klane, Pierre Joris and Aaron Lowinger, Edited by Matthew Klane and Adam Golaski

SHADOW MOUNTAIN, poems by Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan

BOX OF LIGHT / CAJA DE LUZ, poems by Susan Gardner

SALU-SALO: IN CONVERSATION WITH FILIPINOS, AN ANTHOLOGY OF PHILIPPINE-AUSTRALIAN WRITINGS, Ed. by Jose Wendell P. Capili and John Cheeseman

RECOVERING: A JOURNAL by May Sarton

THE SOLACE OF OPEN SPACES, essays by Gretel Ehrlich

HOLY THE FIRM, meditations by Annie Dillard

TEACHING A STONE TO TALK: EXPEDITIONS AND ENCOUNTERS by Annie Dillard

OUT OF POVERTY: WHAT WORKS WHEN TRADITIONAL APPROACHES FAIL, poverty study by Paul Polak

GROWTH OF THE SOIL, novel by Knut Hamsun

DAMAGE CONTROL, novel by J.A. Vance

THE LAST PATRIOT, novel by Brad Thor

RESTRAINT, novel by Sherry Sonnett

PURSUIT, novel by Thomas Perry

DEAD AIM, novel by Thomas Perry

MY DREAM OF YOU, novel by Nuala O'Faolain

THE INFORMANT, novel by James Grippando


WINES
2005 Aubert chardonnay Sonoma
2005 Kistler chardonnay
2005 Kistler pinot noir
2005 Travigne house cabernet
1991 Beringer Cabernet
1999 Behrens & Hitchcock "Ode to Picasso" NV
2006 Marquis Phillips Shiraz