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    Two short stories, "The Demon in the Tree" and "The Substitute Wife," in the spring 2009 issue of Tower Journal.
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    Memoir, “Pookah, The Greatest Cat in the History of the World,” Spring-Summer 2010.
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    This is the first terzanelle ever published, in "The Michigan Quarterly Review" in 1965. It has been gathered in THE COLLECTED LYRICS OF LEWIS TURCO/WESLI COURT, 1953-2004 (www.StarCloudPress.com).
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    An essay on the putative medieval author of "Gawain and the Green Knight" in the summer 2010 issue of Per Contra.
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    An interview, some poems, and an Xmas card with the printmaker George O'Connell.
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    Song of the Mower: The Memoir of a Navy Buddy, a memoir about, and a poem by, Francis T. Rath.
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    A short story, "Moving Day."
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Entries categorized "Real Poultry"

December 17, 2011

Xmas Gnomes

Santa Claus

Consequences

 

Angels we have heard on high

When we were drinking on the sly.

 

 

Wassails You, Buddy?

 

Wassail, wassail all over the town!

Thank God for the snow when we’re falling down!

 

 

Proposition

 

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow

Said to her, “Baby, come on! Let’s go!”

 

 

Chewsing

 

All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth –

I broke them chewing on a wreath.

 

 

Winter Exercise

 

With a corncob pipe and a button nose

Frosty could hardly touch his toes.

 

 

Lullabye

 

All is calm, all is bright,

This season everything is trite.

 

Copyright © 2011 Wesli Court, all rights reserved.

 

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November 21, 2011

Charles Olson Gnomes

  Charles Olson

Inspiration

 

invaded, appropriated, outraged, all senses —

I must be having my mental menses.

 

 

What Is This Stuff?

 

shall we go from here, what can we do

with pages covered with this goo?

 

 

Alumni

 

desperate with the tawdriness of their life in hell,

I wish my Black Mountain students well.

 

 

Zombiesi

 

As the dead prey upon us, they are the dead in ourselves —

It’s like having a gizzard full of elves.

 

 

Philosophy

 

A man and a woman either is only a thing when each

is either a human being or maybe the sun on the beach.

 

 

Figure of Speech

 

(or when did Barton Barton Barton Barton and Barton

ever become something other than verbal fartin’?)

 

Copyright © 2011 Wesli Court, all rights reserved.

 

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October 20, 2008

Image of the Day #1

Economyglobe


"...to worship the moon rising
like a yellow filling-station sign....


by Tony Hoagland, as posted on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac on 20 October 2008.

Terrific! Magnificent! Have you ever read a better image in your life? Wow. Can't believe it.
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Comments:

Why, it made that ole moon seem pretty as a 
picture, didn't it?

Alice (Georgia)

Shore did, honey chile! (Sorry). 

Lew 


I was pronouncing "pretty" "purty" mahself.
Alice

Sho' 'nuff? 

Lew
 

Very nice, Lew, but the real sensation is 
your Phoebe, who is not only beautiful but 
smart and upbeat about school and her 
social life! 
 

Rhina

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