Excerpts
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from part one / are you going to stay two cowboys are sitting on a stone bench the little one orange and yellow and redthe big one bone-brown and tired it is April in the park and crazy-blue noon silence grows in the trees little cowboy kicks a boot at the airsays are you angry…
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My versions of “Thing-Poems,” or “Dinggedicht” in German after Rilke, are really “Thing-Pages.” They are a constellation of poems about invented “things” accompanied by original art. Each duo of Thing-Poems appears on a folded card with an origin legend on the back.
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Rock Farm is a novel in the form of a scrapbook. Sheller takes a position in corporate communications at a fictional nondescript company in New York City, anxious to contribute her talents as a writer. But as she plumbs the depths of her boss’s incompetence and her colleagues’ cases of Stockholm Syndrome, she becomes increasingly…
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The dreams were a torrent of material; Poetself could barely keep up. I wrote of and from them incessantly in notebooks I carried with me everywhere – to the coffee shop down the street on the tiny strip, to the couch on the Dream Factory’s rickety front porch, to the laundromat, at the desk that…
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That I had known it when you were with me…my life, as full and good as you made it, might have been richer. A guru is an esteemed teacher, one who leads by example and who is a master. A guru is equal to the most important family members; in fact, he becomes a family…
Michele M. Bowman's Writings 