Terry Bain

Terry Bain

Spokane

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Etats-Unis

bainbooks.com
“Humorist, author of You Are a Dog and We Are the Cat”
09 jan. 09

Word

Try a word To make a word That is just what it is Not divisive Not so full of juice As the word juice Example: mother. You try to use that word And have it mean just that. Mother. Mom. ... Lire la suite
25 nov. 08

John

New words may begin here as you might expect Smelling foul Misspelled or autocorrected incorrectly This technology insists that I enable my inconsistencies Everywhere
25 nov. 08

For Whom I Keep Silent

You are nobody. Or you are a friend. I shall – no, I will – also shout, because I love you, because pain in the point of your chest where good meets evil discovers that the two are not so distant from one another. ... Lire la suite
10 avr. 08

Jabberwocky

by Lewis Carroll ‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. “Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware ... Lire la suite
08 jan. 08

“LeZoom and His Room” Link-a-Poem

To a child’s poem, though the poem is not childish (and though childish would hardly be an insult… I believe I would rather be called childish than adultish): LeZoom and His Room.
07 jan. 08

Keeping in Touch

The Robert Graves poem , I’ve just listened to so tempted to touch find and touch , to hold that string , the blocks of slate , the word “slate” seeming to ring , I think not only that “there ... Lire la suite
24 nov. 07

Black Friday

There is nothing black about the day about the early darkness even night late afternoon night, after our star burns away every speck of light our dark is not so black should we call it black claim its blackness after ... Lire la suite
21 nov. 07

Moxie and Dreams

Two recent poetry collections—one playful, one pleasurably eerie—to get us through the 21st century. by D. H. Tracy Poetry Foundation Media Services Feminine Gospels, by Carol Ann Duffy. Faber and Faber. $11.00. I gather Carol Ann Duffy is the most ... Lire la suite