Blog Entries tagged 'Poetry'

A Conversation with a Small Cactus

rustinlarson@gmail.com — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:00:00 +0100

Some thoughts about that: if not in an opera house then here under the girders of a new civilization in which the contemplative norm is that of a cheeseburger with a face full of sesames. McCheese is one's neighbor and mayor, and his clown same-sex partner is a cook of sorts, and I gues

Rise Above Your Shadow

rustinlarson@gmail.com — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:00:00 +0100

Squished kitty. Holstein kitty. She was the only one marked as she was. Calico I suppose with all the orange hid somewhere. I couldn't see. So she was a black kitty with white patches or a white kitty with black patches depending upon how you thought. First thing to

New Poems by Michael Carrino

rustinlarson@gmail.com — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:00:00 +0100

Michael Carrino holds an M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College. He is an English lecturer at the State University College at Plattsburgh, New York, where he is co-editor and poetry editor of the Saranac Review. His publications include Some Rescues, (New Poets Series, Inc.) Under This Combustib

A Few Things Straight about Flame Skunks, Abraham Lincoln, and the Endless Tunnels of Paradise

rustinlarson@gmail.com — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:00:00 +0100

Flame skunks. They is a problem to most home owners, be all they don't know it though. Pesky little fellers, git in your basement and start feedin off the lint of most furnace filters. You can tell 'em by their plumpish skunk bodies, but they's head's just like a gas broiler wi

Socks

rustinlarson@gmail.com — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:00:00 +0100

My socks look beat, slung on the chair.

I put them through a hell of a lot today

W. E. Butts

rustinlarson@gmail.com — Mon, 26 May 2008 01:00:00 +0100

I’m sharing a poem not written by me. This is by W. E. Butts , who, if you remember, visited Fairfield in November, 2007. His

Irving Toast, Poetry Ghost with host Rustin Larson on KRUU-LP 100.1 FM

rustinlarson@gmail.com — Mon, 05 May 2008 01:00:00 +0100

Irving Toast, disembodied poet laureate from the late 1890’s, has found his favorite haunting place at KRUU-LP 100.1 FM, “The Voice of Fairfield and Beyond” on Sunday mornings at 10:30 am. CST

Though at times you may hear his ethereal jabbering wending its way through the