Brian Henry & Tara Rebele, This Saturday, March 19th, 8pm
Please spread far and wide.....
Who: Brian Henry; author of Astronaut, American Incident, and Graft; editor of Verse Magazine; Robert Redford's stunt double.
Who: Tara Rebele; performance artist, poet, black belt; author of the forthcoming And I'm Not Jenny; can change truck tires with her bare hands while blindfolded.
What: Desert City Poetry Series, bigger than last year.
When: This Saturday, March 19th, at 8pm, 2005.
Where: Internationalist Books, 405 W. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, directly above the center of the earth.
Why: "Bless the conceptual artist for his brazen images / Know there is no knowing here" "It isn't unpleasant as one / might expect / sitting up late / on the sofa / with the ghosts / preferable even / to years spent / refusing / to be / haunted."
See you there.....
Next Reading:
March 26th: Kent Johnson & Patrick Herron
*Internationalist Books
*Brian Henry
*Tara Rebele
Contact the DCPS: Ken Rumble, director:
rumblek at bellsouth dot net
"Tink"
by Brian Henry
Nothing rhymes with ‘pizza’ here.
The girl is walking up my leg and back
to jump over (not on) my head.
She rhymes what she is with ‘floral.’
The blood on the carpet from my
bloody bloody nose will come out
if I attend to it vite vite!
A yucky cricket, a lot of ladybugs.
He was not a bad hat, just bored.
Did not burn the beasts in his menagerie.
It does not occur to the girl to skin me.
To wonder if I’m rabid, behaving
erratically. At least the wallpaper
is not florid. Stripes asserting order
and direction. I color the mermaid’s bikini
top silver, her crotch and the tail beneath it
silver. Of course I linger. There,
and where the fairy’s cleavage.
The other princesses are all human.
They do not interest me.
At least when I get out of here
I will have a family to go home to.
While it might be more than I deserve,
it is more than you can say.
from "In Penumbral Flats"
by Tara Rebele
Characters:
Lucia: live performer
Mother: video projection
Mental Health Professional (MHP): cardboard cutout with audio feed
Note: Lucia begins in the light in order to look back at her shadows. The initial Summer section of the piece chronologically follows the final Spring section. This should be indicated in production.
The movement sequence between seasons is indicated in {} and should occur in a circular, perhaps spiral, pattern. The movement sequence at the end of the initial Summer section should break from the pattern. Percussion rhythms may accompany the movement sequences, paced according to the speed of the movement; if percussion is not used, some noise would be appropriate.
**
Summer
Lucia:
It isn’t unpleasant as one
might expect
sitting up late
on the sofa
with the ghosts
preferable even
to years spent
refusing
to be
haunted.
One could blame
the wind
were there any
to be had.
Mother:
Lucia. Turn off the lights. It’s late.
Lucia:
Late but not
MHP:
Medication compliance.
Lucia:
every second
again
every
the heaviest of
Mother:
Lucia. The lights. We’ll have a fire. I’ve read about those lamps ...
MHP:
Breakthrough episodes.
Lucia:
Every second.
So when you stand
in the light
your shadow
lurks.
Lest you forget
yesterday
you were
Yet when darkness
there’s no shadow
of the shadow
no trace
to long
and long
it lasts
if one
lasts
long
enough
point A erased
again
This is the better
MHP:
Maintenance is crucial. Regular patterns. Monitor moods.
Continue treatment. As directed.
Mother:
You haven’t taken your pills. Here.
Aren’t you warm with all that?
Who: Brian Henry; author of Astronaut, American Incident, and Graft; editor of Verse Magazine; Robert Redford's stunt double.
Who: Tara Rebele; performance artist, poet, black belt; author of the forthcoming And I'm Not Jenny; can change truck tires with her bare hands while blindfolded.
What: Desert City Poetry Series, bigger than last year.
When: This Saturday, March 19th, at 8pm, 2005.
Where: Internationalist Books, 405 W. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, directly above the center of the earth.
Why: "Bless the conceptual artist for his brazen images / Know there is no knowing here" "It isn't unpleasant as one / might expect / sitting up late / on the sofa / with the ghosts / preferable even / to years spent / refusing / to be / haunted."
See you there.....
Next Reading:
March 26th: Kent Johnson & Patrick Herron
*Internationalist Books
*Brian Henry
*Tara Rebele
Contact the DCPS: Ken Rumble, director:
rumblek at bellsouth dot net
"Tink"
by Brian Henry
Nothing rhymes with ‘pizza’ here.
The girl is walking up my leg and back
to jump over (not on) my head.
She rhymes what she is with ‘floral.’
The blood on the carpet from my
bloody bloody nose will come out
if I attend to it vite vite!
A yucky cricket, a lot of ladybugs.
He was not a bad hat, just bored.
Did not burn the beasts in his menagerie.
It does not occur to the girl to skin me.
To wonder if I’m rabid, behaving
erratically. At least the wallpaper
is not florid. Stripes asserting order
and direction. I color the mermaid’s bikini
top silver, her crotch and the tail beneath it
silver. Of course I linger. There,
and where the fairy’s cleavage.
The other princesses are all human.
They do not interest me.
At least when I get out of here
I will have a family to go home to.
While it might be more than I deserve,
it is more than you can say.
from "In Penumbral Flats"
by Tara Rebele
Characters:
Lucia: live performer
Mother: video projection
Mental Health Professional (MHP): cardboard cutout with audio feed
Note: Lucia begins in the light in order to look back at her shadows. The initial Summer section of the piece chronologically follows the final Spring section. This should be indicated in production.
The movement sequence between seasons is indicated in {} and should occur in a circular, perhaps spiral, pattern. The movement sequence at the end of the initial Summer section should break from the pattern. Percussion rhythms may accompany the movement sequences, paced according to the speed of the movement; if percussion is not used, some noise would be appropriate.
**
Summer
Lucia:
It isn’t unpleasant as one
might expect
sitting up late
on the sofa
with the ghosts
preferable even
to years spent
refusing
to be
haunted.
One could blame
the wind
were there any
to be had.
Mother:
Lucia. Turn off the lights. It’s late.
Lucia:
Late but not
MHP:
Medication compliance.
Lucia:
every second
again
every
the heaviest of
Mother:
Lucia. The lights. We’ll have a fire. I’ve read about those lamps ...
MHP:
Breakthrough episodes.
Lucia:
Every second.
So when you stand
in the light
your shadow
lurks.
Lest you forget
yesterday
you were
Yet when darkness
there’s no shadow
of the shadow
no trace
to long
and long
it lasts
if one
lasts
long
enough
point A erased
again
This is the better
MHP:
Maintenance is crucial. Regular patterns. Monitor moods.
Continue treatment. As directed.
Mother:
You haven’t taken your pills. Here.
Aren’t you warm with all that?
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