Literarisches Events (in and around Lawrence KS)

  • PATRICIA LOCKWOOD. Lawrence. Thursday, September 11, 7:00 p.m., Spooner Hall, KU Campus.
  • PATRICIA LOCKWOOD. Lawrence. Friday, September 19, 7:00 p.m. Lawrence Public Library. Sponsored by Raven Bookstore.
  • DENNIS ETZEL, JR. & RACHEL CROSS. Lawrence. Thursday, September 25, 7:00 p.m., Raven Bookstore, 6 E. 7th St.
  • TONY TRIGILIO. Lawrence. Thursday, Oct. 2, 4:00 p.m., English Room, Kansas Union, KU Campus. FREE.
  • CALEB PUCKETT & JUSTIN RUNGE. Lawrence. Thursday, October 16, 7:00 p.m., Raven Bookstore, 6 E. 7th St.
  • BEN LERNER. Kansas City, MO. Thursday, October 23, 7:00 p.m., Epperson Auditorium, Vanderslice Hall on the KCAI campus, 4415 Warwick Blvd.
  • KRISTIN LOCKRIDGE & ROBERT DAY. Lawrence. Thursday, December 4, 7:00 p.m., Raven Bookstore, 6 E. 7th St.

Monday, October 22, 2012

[Another unhard green thing --]



Another unhard green thing –
glossy smudges of light top
curvily dimpled edges. Center
top sits a green like kelly
central hexagon with lava-like growth
bubbling up out of it
a little tubular muscular upthrusting
nub, broken and blackened
at the tip.

But back to the body:
from three martian cheeks cleft,
mooning you from under robin hood
ish loincloth lincoln
green, down the sides varicolored
variverted streaks, expanses,
shaped like deformed hearts,
bulging at the bottom, designed
for functionality:

                                    sides slide
imperceptibly down to rounded pads,
naturally-occurring Scandinavian appliance
from the 1970s, to where when you turn
it upside-down, it triple is, hilly wedges
forming a triskele surrounded
by a circle. Not a square
pod not a ball but a bell
sans clap or clapper.