Poetry

Clarinda Harriss is one of the humblest people I know. She will take a day that is about her to give you many fine moments about you. She is self-depricating in a way that makes you wonder if she really doesn't know that a beautiful genius wears her flattering frocks, lusts for purple shoes.

The book I'm reading this week, Air Travel, is the book I will read for years to come, like I read my ripped and mangled copy of The Night Parrot (which I borrowed from a friend and never returned until Clarinda gave me a new copy a decade later).

Here's a taste. "The Tragedy of Hats" is probably my favorite of Clarinda's poems. Enjoy. Then buy the book.

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The next Maryland State Poetry and Literary Society reading at Minås will be October 16, 2005, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. and will feature Alan Reese and me. Please come!