unicarmeral hill/

poems mean

that you

have a restless

spirit.

That you

know

lemon scented

aromas;

not that

that means

anything.

But it

is important

to know

what chocolate

is for:

to get you,

with great force,

and in

a dispassionate

and scholarly

manner,

(past heartache

and hunger)

to that land

of

orphan

leaves.

Reviews

[W.k.kortas]

I'm not sure you're not just enjoying the teeniest joke at our expense with this; I suspect that you are more in line with the "restless spirit" and would not hold with the notion of using "a dispassionate/and scholarly/manner" as a vehicle to reach "that land/of/orphan/leaves" (I'm reading what I'm writing here, and I really hope we're both laughing.) The poet A.R. Ammons, who could be a bit heavy on the scholarly and dispassionate at times himself, wrote about poetry being mute as a globed fruit or something of that ilk; it's a shame he died before he could read this.

[Emily B]

i want to go there, sometimes it is best to travel together though, will you take my hand and walk along?

[writing mojo]

So many out there can't sense such a thing, they just call it Anglosaxon fodder dotting I's and crossing T's form, to function in. And they think it's all a prim proper skill to be honed. They forget the instinctual origin of sign language monkeys, or Aphrodite passage to another world which in essence prevails such brain scrims, to a calling, a condition bestowed upon someone who dies inside on the other side a little everyday just to be heard...This poetry stuff has been with us along time.
Thank you Dana for getting it the way you do..

[jacob erin-cilberto]

"that land of orphan leaves" works so well as the ending to this.
i have a restless spirit but love scent of lemons---i see you speaking here of appreciating all that is around us, then sharing that appreciation in words that we write....dispassionate but only in terms of being able to formulate the writing....that deep chocolate taste does get us past the hunger for the words...and even if we present poems in a scholarly manner, we don't want to take the taste out of them.

and i see the orphan leaves referring to the pages of those books we put together, from that land of our creative brains...the ones we send out on their own to interact in chocolate flavor and lemon scent.

i really like this, dana.
jacob