Andre Bagoo's Blog, page 50
March 15, 2012
"For all his work with words
a simple thing like
naming the dog eludes him.
Dog, he calls him, dog."
a simple thing like
naming the dog eludes him.
Dog, he calls him, dog."
- Mervyn Taylor, No Back Door
'Trick Vessels' is out now!
Find more information at the Shearsman website here.
March 14, 2012
March 13, 2012
"A human is an animal with his clothes off"
- Lucien Freud
I memorise every knot
Of these memorial pews…
Where a...
I memorise every knot
Of these memorial pews…
Where a mountain clump breaks off
And then becomes a tree
The tree that breaks free
To become a memory
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Trick Vessels is officially due out this week! Trying not to pass out. Took a stroll a few days ago and photographed these trees at Woodford Square, Port of Spain. The quotation is from, 'Prefaces for Other Occasions' a poem in Trick Vessels.
March 12, 2012
"Over the cage floor the horizons come"
- Ted Hughes, 'The Jaguar'
March 11, 2012
"I love you as the plant that never blooms"
- Pablo Neruda
March 10, 2012
"Work is love made visible."
- Kahlil Gibran
"For the first four days it rained. I could hardly see...
"For the first four days it rained. I could hardly see where I was. Then it stopped raining…"—VS Naipaul, The Enigma of Arrival
A rainy day in Port of Spain. Perfect for catching up on reading.
Two poems at tongues of the ocean
Photo by Andre Bagoo
Am grateful to have two poems from Trick Vessels in the current issue of tongues of the ocean, the online literary journal run by Nicolette Bethel.
Black ink declared
All men to be equal but
Spines, rigged like chains,
Choked other limbs:
Feathered men
Replaced.
READ more from 'Floating Vessels' here and 'Landslide' here.
