MEOWKU Photos & Photographs (from our beloved Brooklyn girl) PATRICIA CARRAGON

Noble assistant editor Frosty: "Mister Editor!  Our very bestest friend, 'that Brooklyn girl' Patricia Carragon, has a new collection of poetry and kitty photos, MEOWKU, soon to be released by Hoboken's POETS WEAR PRADA!"

from assistant editor Tama: "Over thirty pages of kitty photos/poetry, including this one!..."


    (for Tama)                                              

    this goddess knows
             Kishigawa's good fortune
                    calico's blessings

"and! how true these two are..."

                        feline etiquette
                        humans must cater to cats
                        never vice versa


      the maneki-neko
               waves her calico paw
                       "meowzeltov"


and, there's this, noble assistant editor, kitties are dear to so many of us, and! they are too human in some of their actions- Ms. Patricia's poetry delves into all aspects of kitty existence, even some aspects it's hard for us to own...

          seeing cat
          her calm
          before the storm                      outside the bedroom door
                                                   early morning meows
                                                   give her food or else

state assistant editors Frosty and Tama:
"Enough from you, Mister Editor- Patricia,
here's one of your fine kitty photos from MEOWKU!                              

  

                                      the singing bowl
                                      cannot compete
                                      with the purring cat

see you in a moment...

               and, you can mail your poetry to:

                bear creek haiku

                PO Box 596

                Longmont, CO

                80502   

                USA   

                (SASE's are appreciated)

From other than the USA, email to darylayaz@gmail.com and/or 

                  darylayaz@me.com (include postal address)

Last!  If you choose to send poetry via email from within the US,

                                    that's ok, too (again, include postal address)

three new poetry collections: 'Un bel sogno (A beautiful dream)' by Jane Stuart, 'Violent Fantasies' by Gary Erb, and, 'CLUTCH 2019', sent by poet/photographer t. kilgore splake...

from poet Jane Stuart, 'Un bel sogno (A beautiful dream)', in English and Italian, (Edizioni Universum, translator Giovanni Campisi, cover by Ling Ming-Li)...

MEADOW MORNING                    IL PRATO DEL MATTINO                          

Morning                                Mattino       

electric blue                           di un blu elettrico

wind blowing last night's clouds    il vento soffia sulle nuvole

over meadows full of golden       della notte scorsa       

fireflies                                sui prati pieni di

                                         lucciole dorate

assistant editors Frosty and Tama: 'We've known Jane many, many years- she once told us, "I don't have a cell phone, because I thought they meant jail," plus! Jane writes poetry in her small cabin near Greenup, Kentucky... yet, here she is, again creating a collection of poetry published in two languages, English and Italian!'

'This next new collection of poems (we received six within a recent two-week period) is Violent Fantasies, from poet Gary Erb (his 34th published collection), from Laughing Waters Press, Boulder, CO- 

                                                      

     Honor the Warrior, Not the War                          Slogan for Veterans for Peace

     'To stay out of the infantry, I joined 
     the navy.  The navy put me in the
     infantry.  A medic with the marines.'


a 'Vietnam era Veteran for Peace who 
writes to raise consciousness', a recipient of  
Colorado Council on the Arts grant...

at twenty pages... an uneasy, 
                   thought-provoking collection

'yes!', says Frosty, 'Doctor John on the cover of CLUTCH 2019!',
from editor Robert M. Zoschke of Street Corner Press...

'Editor Zoschke's latest CLUTCH includes photos, artwork, and, especially!, prominent (plus infamous, such as a photo of Charles Bukowski taking a dump) poets/poetry from 1900(!) 'til now, including Albert Huffstickler, Lew Welch, Antler, the Cherokee Nation's Sarah Elizabeth Burkey, and! friends of ours- Ed Markowski, Alan Catlin, especially: t. kilgore splake, who graciously sent us a copy...



from CLUTCH's t. kilgore...

                                                       (t. kilgore's poet tree...)

    strangers waking naked 
    wondering what to say
    surprise morning kiss

                    son and daughter
                    possessing my dna
                    life's mad crapshoot

    getting warmly familiar
    beautiful young lady
    asking who is bukowski

                  only loving on surface
                  rosetta café expresso
                  baristas "mornin' hon"

     poet pressing further
     until totally alone
     finally taking off mask

from CLUTCH's Ed Markowski...

                 president's day
                 truth has nothing
                 to do with it

(250+ pages, includes cover photo of Dr. John by Cristopher Felver, and, back cover art by Chad M. Horn)... 


Extra treats for all because of you, assistant editor Frosty! These are very worthy and, for us, somewhat unusual books you've reviewed...

see you in a moment...

               and, you can mail your poetry to:

                bear creek haiku

                PO Box 596

                Longmont, CO

                80502   

                USA   

                (SASE's are appreciated)

From other than the USA, email to darylayaz@gmail.com and/or 

                  darylayaz@me.com (include postal address)

Last!  If you choose to send poetry via email from within the US,

                                    that's ok, too (again, include postal address)

three new purrrable poetry collections: 'Ode for the Time Being' by Rochelle S. Cohen (art by Rex, photo by George Moore), 'Gather Round All Ye Wild Children of the Defrocked Atom' poems by Carl Mayfield (art by Wayne Hogan), and, 'Still Life with Lighthouse' by Alan Catlin...

from poet and internationally acclaimed neuroscientist Rochelle S. Cohen...

             Slings and Arrows         
                                                                                             
                 If you want to get rid of that worm
                 Call the archer echinoderm                
                 The Robin Hood of the briny
                 An urchin that's spiny                       
                 And watch that scalawag squirm

                                Temptacles     

                                A Swedish Jelly named Inga
                                Was known in the depths as a swinga
                                The stunning Medusa
                                She couldn't be loosa
                                Would love 'ya and leave 'ya and sting 'ya

            assistant editor Kitty Kali, reiterating,
            'forty pages of singular humor and 
            poignancy from dear friend Rochelle, 
            married to the artist/poet we loved 
            and truly miss, Sir Rex Sexton, 
            whom is now anointed as a 
            knight of our haiku/poetic realm'

    
     artwork by Rex Sexton... 

from a hero of ours, Carl Mayfield! 
artwork by Wayne Hogan (of Lilliput Review infamy), released into the unsuspecting 
public by little books press...


Climate Change and Wistful Spokes

If only I could wear the linen of a proper fool
as he hands out promises, if somehow I could
learn how to balance on a bicycle once again.
The feeling arises that everything will be all
                               right if I could feel the rain on my lips, so
                               maybe that fool isn't so far away after all.

                                            shoes full
                                                  of clay
                                               at home wherever I go


from poet Alan Catlin...

publishing fine poetry since the 70's, this is Alan's sixtieth-some published collection, all of 'em well-written and very worthy of our reading...

                               Peace

      Horse tail clouds in pale
      blue sky over North Pine,

      seagulls roosting on sandbar
                                     where the Sound meets sea,

                                     low tide receding;

                                     even the waves are resting.

and, last, here's assistant editor Kitty Kali, with our

see you in a moment...

               and, you can mail your poetry to:

                bear creek haiku

                PO Box 596

                Longmont, CO

                80502   

                USA   

                (SASE's are appreciated)

From other than the USA, email to darylayaz@gmail.com and/or 

                  darylayaz@me.com (include postal address)

Last!  If you choose to send poetry via email from within the US,

                                    that's ok, too (again, include postal address)