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Michael Rothenberg’s poems have been published widely in literary magazines including Exquisite Corpse, Berkeley Review, The Cortland Review, Sycamore Review, Ironwood, Pearl, Rockhurst Review, Rolling Stock, Lungfull, and others. He has published several books of poems including Favorite Songs, Nightmare of the Violins, What The Fish Saw, Man/Women and The Paris Journals. In Fall 2003 Unhurried Vision will be published by La Alameda Press and Grown Up Cuba will be published by Il Begatto Press, Amsterdam. He is author of the novel Punk Rockwell (Tropical Press). Publisher/editor of internet magazine Big Bridge ( www.bigbridge.org )and Contributing U.S. editor of the CDROM journal papertiger, Rothenberg is also editor of Overtime, Selected Poems by Philip Whalen (Penguin Putnam, Inc.), and As Ever, Selected Poems by Joanne Kyger.

 

 
   

Rain. Bougainvillea
I think I know less than I know
Watery shafts, shadows, winged flocks
Stucco and orange clay tiled roofs
Barking dogs & mobile candelabras
LLL. says, “giving up what was never really
yours but yet was you”…and
“those practices which refer to 'retention' etc.
…these are called sacred
because they introduce you
to your 'shit', i.e.,
you have to go back & repair
a lot of construction to support that bliss
& that level of abandonment (of EGO)”
And we must mind our manners
“face to face w. most irrational
(& egocentric) aspects in order to liberate
fr. them”. Garland of pink carnations
& red velvet roses hang on doorknob
to closet of first transgressions
Dormant in the seed