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Paul B. Roth:  Bitter Oleander Press stands as one of the guardians of independent book publishing. In an age when the small press industry and its plethora of startups struggles against giants of print and internet,  Roth’s The Bitter Oleander journal continues to weather the storm. With Alan Britt.   
Paul Roth Interview in Ragazine, V10, N2

spare me

language.

form.

spare me language.

spare me form.

perfect poem

an empty page.

how minimal

can you be?

how much left

to write about,

what’s remains

to share?

spare me language.

spare me form.

spare me what remains

to crow about.

describe the emptiness

behind that white sheet,

that relentless snow

freezing my soul.

so spare me,

who has not the time

to share the beating

of an empty drum.

11-28-13

uber poet

uber poetry

erasing itself line by line,

jumping around as if

independent

of thought,  without direction,

youthful, energetic...

its yearning  like the pink

aurora borealis,

at the bottom, near to earth,

a plaything of the sun, 

from charged particles

ionizing the atmosphere

above the tundra lichen.

liken that to the quiet scene

of boys in cutoff pants

and sweet girls in taffeta

watching boys in cutoff pants

throw  stones flattened

by glacial rivers,  here now

after a million years, there

selected, drawn and tossed again

this time by children

who ionize the waters

with multiples of of landings

and takeoffs that leave

trails of rippling circles,  

the disturbance of calm.

who?

the uber poet asks,

who

threw the first stone?

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