tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305747752009-07-06T18:32:32.456-07:00~*~OVARIES AND SEQUINS~*~BellumLettersMichelle Detoriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.comBlogger414125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-14224488956506252252009-07-06T18:31:00.000-07:002009-07-06T18:32:32.465-07:00xoxo still hereMichelle Detoriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-10338557297554788472009-06-02T09:51:00.000-07:002009-06-02T09:56:23.513-07:00Delirious Hem Delirious SummerI love summer. It is when I read the most.Delirious Hem had an amazing forum on feminist poetics last month, and at some point I have things to say about it.Check out the newest forum on Deviant Beach Reads, curated and organized by Danielle Pafunda.Michelle Detoriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-24026254692352388842009-05-19T19:30:00.000-07:002009-05-19T19:39:01.020-07:00the large crow that resides slowand steady black rustle featherswhisper flight, the dusk rattlein my throat: it takes so longto live.I've forgotten all my songs. The gardenrows like swamped in ruins. Dustin gates, mesh wire swinging. We'dcling to what if we'd only known.She thought this to herself beforebed every night for a week.mesh-water in the air, the lightwebs unmarshed. waiting for Michelle Detoriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-60034378323293814032009-04-25T13:00:00.000-07:002009-04-25T13:02:22.868-07:00Test 10Michelle Detoriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-49181246308813985272009-04-23T12:41:00.001-07:002009-04-23T12:55:17.241-07:00More on Testsat what point is it not behind but underneath? I am undeneath the tests. I've made my charts, arranged my instruments, but something else continues to duel or intercept. Also, I resent the screen. It is easier with yarn and cloth. You know what I mean. The other night we saw a white-lined sphinx moth. Two of them. Yes, we had to look twice to determine that it was not a hummingbird. It looked Michelle Detoriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-63289634647447926312009-04-17T13:20:00.000-07:002009-04-17T13:21:12.167-07:00Test 9Michelle Detoriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-19068875485765809832009-04-17T11:53:00.000-07:002009-04-17T11:54:56.583-07:00Test 8Michelle Detoriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-54390552577005838092009-04-17T10:25:00.000-07:002009-04-17T13:44:46.695-07:00on why I am behind in the testsone of the things that has suprised me is that the data collection is difficult. the learning curve is steep, and I most be focused and in possession of a sufficient amount of emotional energy if I want to ensure a certain level of accuracy or "truth." Although one of the things I'm finding is that truth or the feeling of truth is completely unreliable (of course, therefore more interesting, thusMichelle Detoriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-20916370000751005502009-04-17T10:20:00.000-07:002009-04-17T10:21:46.549-07:00test 7Michelle Detoriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-66332363847967614592009-04-14T22:34:00.000-07:002009-04-14T22:35:28.654-07:00test 6Michelle Detoriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-67022458470779969472009-04-12T22:46:00.000-07:002009-04-12T22:47:45.124-07:00Today I saw three whales. I was in an airplane. The whales were in the ocean. The shadow of the plane skittered across.Michelle Detoriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-20432634554282836932009-04-07T23:35:00.000-07:002009-04-07T23:37:39.458-07:00test 5Michelle Detoriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-8463471610821959892009-04-07T14:11:00.000-07:002009-04-07T14:13:45.075-07:00test 4Michelle Detoriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-71434428809384786142009-04-06T09:38:00.000-07:002009-04-06T09:44:21.752-07:00The next three poems will be coming later tonight. So far data collection is going well. There are plenty of words out there, though it occurs to me that a future study would include letters, sounds, glyphs, and gestures.Michelle Detoriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-12367405364352346802009-04-04T00:06:00.000-07:002009-04-04T00:08:06.777-07:00Testing 3Michelle Detoriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-89992121597177317512009-04-02T20:12:00.000-07:002009-04-02T20:13:55.739-07:00testing 2Michelle Detoriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-12933540862157112612009-04-02T20:10:00.000-07:002009-04-02T20:14:11.966-07:00testing 1Michelle Detoriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-76506678907452253462009-04-02T10:32:00.000-07:002009-04-02T20:10:54.642-07:00napowrimopoems one and two will be posted here later today. this year the theme is animals and women and whether or not they are real. Michelle Detoriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-35947751486800647962009-03-26T15:01:00.000-07:002009-03-26T15:02:51.028-07:00Michelle Detoriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-9785084494041164832009-02-28T13:20:00.000-08:002009-02-28T13:22:44.805-08:00terrarium test poemnew projectMichelle Detoriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-30355110505240075582009-02-27T21:44:00.000-08:002009-02-27T21:58:30.602-08:00Michelle Detoriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-40558956227794562132009-02-12T20:09:00.000-08:002009-02-12T20:17:14.572-08:00Good newsMy pamphlet "How Hate Got Hand" is now available from eohippus labs.Eohippus labs is the project of Amanda Ackerman and Harold Abramowitz, two of the coolest people ever.Harold has a new e-book out from Little Red Leaves, and Hex Press will be publishing Amanda's chapbook this summer.Also, the new issue of Little Red Leave is gorgeous and full of really awesome poetry.Michelle Detoriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-56104728503598080972009-01-29T11:49:00.000-08:002009-01-29T12:28:01.947-08:00I had a dream last night that had many of the features of a classic anxiety dream. I was due to get on a plane to London in a few days time, and in order to enter the plane I needed a confirmation number. I was confident that the confirmation number was in an envelope which was in a box, but everything was a mess and I kept putting off the moment when I would actually open the letter to try and Michelle Detoriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-45952507905626962322009-01-10T19:51:00.000-08:002009-01-10T20:45:50.114-08:00with the water pulled back, you could see the teethrock triangles in the sand, zipper linedcliffs slid up like peach moon rockquartz glinting or slate shale shiftingI begin collecting. Water where there wassand, the silence a hand over everyone'sears. Another beak in which there isblood, are parasites, black bodiesthat tick and stick. Eye glass of bluelike a heart-core ticking, flickingthe Michelle Detoriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-50915608780996723352008-12-30T21:41:00.000-08:002008-12-30T21:47:16.545-08:00and would not scareit wasn't a skunk, but a raccoon posse. "a pack of bandits" is what my mother would call them. soft and fat, the fur up close, the ringed tails, the clasping paw-hands, half-cat, half-bear. I left a shiny black bag full of trash outside our door; I planned to take it out, but I forgot.Michelle Detoriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com1