June 2010 – Joanne Merriam

In the wake of the hovercraft the cobblestones were darker than before, by an increment of congealing blood.

28 June 201024 December 2022 joannemerriam

Read “The Boys” by Charles Stross.

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When George first started shoplifting, she’d palmed anything portable, from candy bars to nail clippers. Now she specialized in nail polish. By her last count, she had acquired two hundred and twenty-three individual colors. She had posted this on her Facebook status, and some kid from middle school wrote on her wall that she was a “luser.” George decided this made him look way dumber than her, but she still deleted the wall post. Then she unfriended him. George thought of herself as mature because she was not afraid to unfriend someone. Even Bob didn’t unfriend. Though, admittedly, Bob had seven hundred and ninety-one friends and was the founder of the group “WE HEART VAMPIRES!!!!!!” No one called Bob a luser. She got “sllllluuuuuutttt.”

26 June 201024 December 2022 joannemerriam

Read “WE HEART VAMPIRES!!!!!!” by Meghan McCarron.

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winter surprise

25 June 201022 May 2015 joannemerriam

I was too busy working and then standing in line for 3 1/2 hours at Green Hills for Alan’s iPhone (my anniversary gift to him)

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Even the water tastes like shreds

25 June 201024 December 2022 joannemerriam

Read “The Wailing Well” by Peg Duthie.

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It drinks like thirsting earth.

20 June 201024 December 2022 joannemerriam

Read “Tapping the Vine” by Sonya Taaffe.

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“From all the observations in towns up and down the Hudson River Valley, we’re able to determine the meteor’s appearance down to the hour and minute,” Olson said. “Church observed it at 9:49 p.m. when the meteor passed overhead, and Walt Whitman would’ve seen it at the same time, give or take one minute.”

8 June 201024 December 2022 joannemerriam

Walt Whitman Meteor Mystery Solved by Astronomer Sleuths (via Deborah P Kolodji)

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Getting space in outer space was far down my list of needs. First was air. Then food. Anything else was pure luxury.

7 June 201024 December 2022 joannemerriam

Read “A Jar of Goodwill” by Tobias S. Buckell.

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Difficult Listening

6 June 201022 May 2015 joannemerriam

WRFN Radio Free Nashville‘s “Difficult Listening” will be featuring my work along with another Canadian poet’s between 10 a.m. and noon, Central time, today (they

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rendered by semiosis/to a sign for all/we stand to lose

4 June 201024 December 2022 joannemerriam

Read “Ekphrasis on a Screensaver” by Wendy Babiak.

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The brain’s right hemisphere, for example, “talks” under certain circumstances to the left hemisphere. That can feel like an alien voice, or that something new is happening in the mind that is coming from somewhere else.

3 June 201024 December 2022 joannemerriam

Poet and clinical neuropsychologist Sean Haldane: ‘I now think poetry has more capacity to change people than psychotherapy‘ (via)

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