The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Mon 4/13/2009)

[RetroLounge]

Elegy for My Sex Life

Goodbye, closing credits and kissing
till the lights came up.
Farewell, feathers and patchouli, slowdancing and waterbeds,
which I worshipped like Stations of the Cross.
Stickiness and soapslide, all that gliding and lingering:
goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.
Adios, palm-ache and saddle-ache and you, too, rugburn.
Au revoir, opera gloves, black satin swallowing the elbow,
toasts and braggadocio, pearls sliding
from their silky thread.
Goodbye, sheer persimmon shawl
and "That's a hell of a hello:"
So long, frontseat, against-the-wall, on-the-stairs.
How I'll miss you, backdoor and garter belts,
hosannas of gratitude and hymns of praise.
Can I hide my myrrh like a Magdalene?
Jasmine and cinnamon, wildest honey:
perfumes I won't break at your feet.

Karen Kovacik

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"Karen Kovacik is Associate Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis. She is the recipient of a number of awards, including a guest fellowship at the University of Wisconsin’s Institute for Creative Writing, an Arts Council of Indianapolis Creative Renewal Fellowship, and a Fulbright Research Grant to Poland. She is also the author of Beyond the Velvet Curtain, winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize (Kent State University Press, 1999).

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RL

[BlueIris]

1. Niiiiice.

Good find.

[RetroLounge]

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[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. ~

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[RetroLounge]

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[blueraven95]

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[RetroLounge]

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[Chorophyll]

4. Actually...

I'm still hoping to get around to some of that stuff. It ain't over till it's over, Karen Kovacik! :D

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[RetroLounge]

9. Can we see your to-do list?

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RL

[Chorophyll]

11. I've got it committed to memory.

Not old enough to have to write it down just yet. ;)

[RetroLounge]

12. Hee. Well Played...

I'll be flying into White Plains the 23rd or 24th for the Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival.

You going?

RL

[Chorophyll]

13. I'm hoping to be there on Saturday, the 25th.

My former poetry teacher is reading that afternoon. And I just saw that Dorianne Laux is reading that night!! As if all that weren't enough I'm going to hear Mark Doty at Manhattanville College this Thursday night. I hope all this poetry will help spice up my prose. :)

You staying around for the whole shebang?

[RetroLounge]

14. I'm working it out now to come for the weekend...

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RL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear Retro...

Lovely, poignant, sad...

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[RetroLounge]

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