38. universal sign of choking

"I don't know why poets don't open renaissance workshops and have apprentice poets knock off poems in the master's style, but perhaps that's what writing workshops do already." --William Logan, Desperate Measures (2002)

"The Russian author composed the text of about 10,000 lines in his head and memorised it using a bread rosary as a mnemonic aid."

astatootob
headache
at first light

local honey on whole wheat bread
pencil down to nub

greenish-black
names
paper towels torn in two for napkins

shadowless
errand
pseudo-rustic new coffeehouse

like a bar in a 60s TV western
but not for those who remember it

"...the book exemplifies a mood, at once swaggering, frustrated, vengeful and despairing, among men of a certain age, class and education on the Upper East Side and the West End."

(pic by krista schlyer via v p crowe on fb)