Poem that makes me want to write

Smelling The Wind
by Audre Lorde


Rushing Headlong
into new silence
your face
dips on my horizon
the name
of a cherished dream
riding my anchor
one sweet season
to cast off
on another voyage

No reckoning allowed
save the marvelous arithmetics
of distance

Cape Cod " The Plains of Nauset"

Found Poem

Claim

Thrown old concerned woman,
Plain
Sympathized with no man.
The set jaws of iron braced–
Talking like a man-of-war's-man–
Shouting to live, unless it was some mere wee thing that died in infancy

This woman introducing rye was ready for suitable frames,
Interspersed among the oaks.
An oven & furniture select the moon, a man,
the latter.

I saw previous summers, it looked as if a singular combination of gentlemen, entitled as white men, translated the confession.

Weekly Poem: Last Week in D.C. (4107 13th NE Place

Variations on a front porch:

Fingers stained with smell
A shiny FedEx truck bakes in the sun, a big bleached potato roasting out on our street
Thomas' pluming truck passes by on the asphalt,
the rubber tires anchor to the black top
a sight so pitful and plain it must be put into memory, to be recalled frequently bound to have happened, and happen again with foggy familiarity
The Midwest melts as Texas floods
somewhere between, the whole world seemed humid to me
The skin on my legs burn
darken, soaking in the light , until the suns radiation becomes a lurking carcinogen; remembering a surgeon general's warning
choosing to instead, sweat indoors

Maybe the wind will blow them all away.
So my last memories won't recollect a
summer spent
baked.

Wendy's

Letters to Wendy's as Poetry

Things to consider: Wendy's is apart of American Culture and the symbol, Wendy the logo functions within the bounds of language as something that represents a place where people eat, we are taught this through advertisement and personal experience.

Letters to Wendy's posses three themes of poetry: the exploration of Reason and Imagination through language, the resurrection of language through new associations and the eroticization of words.

Wendy's is a known quality, a fast food place that exist in reality, which Wenderworth uses to create fictional encounters, that explores the relation between Wendy's and seemingly unrelated situations that we are introduced to through Wenderworth's stream of conscious musings. These in turn are his discussion about the value of Wendy's, " imagination is the perception of value." According to Shelley the expression of imagination, while using the other class of mental action, reason, as a starting place is poetry(49pg).
These letters purposefully "obscure," on the surface seek to apprehend new associations and truth about Wendy's. This reconstruction of Wendy's representation through language can be attributed to poetry because it is the cyclic nature of the poetic structure, where language is disheveled in order to devise new relations(51pg). Ultimately Letter's to Wendy's can be seen as an examination of a new language of brand names, their purpose and our perception of them.
Lastly Letters to Wendy's is poetry because it illustrates Barthes theory of pleasurable text by way of the word as erotic. Again the obscure theme employed by Wenderworth has another and different role in its contribution to how we are defining poetry. The obscurity of the letters transform the Wendy's symbol into something erotic. With his continuous suggestion that anything can be related to Wendy's such as pooping, penises, porn, the apocalypse, the first condition of the two opposing conditions. The second condition is enacted because although those things are often considered erotic, they are often used unexpectedly and almost randomly inserted into the letters(42pg).
Letters to Wendy's application of obfuscation engages us to imagine and take pleasure the creation of new affiliations.

A letter

Dear Richard,
Wow, what a complement, although I'm not sure if I'm following you.
Yes we both have trade marks, yours the two hand peace sign, and I have the twin tails and yes I am a tasty beverage.

I AM NOT A CROOK, I refuse to have my people "look into" the Dunkin' Donuts situation. I'd though you'd known better by now, also have no clue how to get you on some sort of coin or dollar. Perhaps talk to the Federal Bank Reserve?
No amount of corporate backing is going to help you either way, I am just a humble mermaiden from Seattle who happens to be "plastered" on various tasty coffee beverages, ya know?

I think the best bet you have to get yourself "plastered" is to have a library named after you but, you or your family will probably have to pay to get the name switched.
please stop writing open letters on your blog -you are bad publicity–
Sincerely,
Starbucks Mermaid