The Brother Swimming Beneath Me: NaPoWriMo 2009

Friday, April 17, 2009

NaPoWriMo 2009

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18.

*poof*
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26 comments:

Nancy Devine said...: i just read about your heart attack on Collin Kelley's blog...I'll hold you in my thoughts and wait for poems. -Nancy; 7:36 PM
Nic Sebastian said...: For real! And using it for NaPo material! Get well very soon.; 11:36 PM
jeannine said...: So sorry to hear this. Get well soon! Thinking good thoughts for you.; 11:40 PM
Steven D. Schroeder said...: Jesus, Brent! Wrote a poem about that? Get well soon!; 11:46 PM
Stephanie Goehring said...: You get trained for the whole "the speaker isn't the poet" business but something about this poem when I first read it made me think it had happened to you recently. Hope you're doing better.; 12:47 AM
Ivy said...: Brent, I hope everything's well. Found out via the qarrtsiluni twitter ticker. Please look after yourself.; 4:01 AM
greg rappleye said...: Brent:

This is terrible news!

Keeping you in my thoughts and prayers.; 6:23 AM
Karen J. Weyant said...: Thinking of you and wishing you good thoughts.; 6:23 AM
stacebro said...: Sending good thoughts your way, Brent, and wishing you well...; 6:42 AM
mariegauthier said...: wow, Brent, I'm so sorry, but glad you survived to write a poem about it! Be well soon, all best wishes.; 6:48 AM
David Graham said...: Brent, you are my poetry god. Get well fast, and write lots more.; 7:11 AM
Brent Goodman said...: thank you everyone. on a day where all control was taken away from me, I think scribbling the first draft of this down that night was the only thing I could do to feel normal again. and I guarded that clipboard! several RN's almost walked out with it while cleaning up my tray.; 7:20 AM
Rachel Mallino said...: oh my gosh, Brent! I'm glad that you are *okay* and to push out a poem, too - I have no excuse - you are an inspiration. Please take of yourself, though, okay?

- Rachel; 7:24 AM
Daniel Casey said...: Brent--jesus man, your art triumphs but seriously take it ease, get well, we all want you around and at 100%

thoughts for you this day; 7:57 AM
Seth Abramson said...: Brent,

I pray you get well soon! You're in my thoughts (and I admire your courage!). Be well,

Seth; 8:08 AM
Sara said...: Sending all my best, Brent. Hope you are well soon.; 8:25 AM
Gary L. McDowell said...: My prayers and thoughts are with you. Please get well soon. We're all thinking of you.

word verification: hyped; 8:38 AM
knott said...: stick in1 there ... get well

when i was in the cardiac unit i too started working on a verse——

normally i'd never post a poem on someone else's blog,

but this may be apropos:

POEM IN THE CARDIAC UNIT

Time-charted, nursed, I let the meds
dictate this verse: roomriver rounds
take my pulse down stairwaves of stairs
scan my aches in chairbanks of chairs
and wake me on bedbeds of beds.

Multiplicities, pre-scripted;
metaphors bled, already dead:
what wouldn't be a cliche here—
paranoid mirror, bathroom sink,
flowing over with normal fear

as I squint at what I might mean
if I poeticized this scene: age
LSDs my chin; my once-lean
profile spills profilefiles, page
upon page rippling to see

even their prolific output
data can never sate the spate
pathoscopes that hardrecord spot
surveillance of what vital signs
remain in these veins, clotted lines

whose parse usurps my sleep. (Forget
how literate you hate this surge,
absurd, heartbeat creation; your
necknoun must stet its tide-edit
now, to quiververbs, wattlewords.)

What would my peergroup say, could they
modify this hypergaud gush,
advise my florid veinflushed flesh
stop pouring forth such images,
euphony beyond me. Sweet excess.

Is that not the gist this critic
monitor that beeps down its sic
keeps vying to brightly display
while I lie here less than what, what,
watched all night, till more's the day.; 1:31 PM
Nick said...: Best wishes on a speedy recovery & affording me the pleasure of reading more of your poetry.; 1:58 PM
Radish King said...: I've lit a candle for you, Brent. I found out from Ivy. See? Brautigan was right. All watched over by machines of loving grace.Rebecca; 2:54 PM
Suzanne said...: Get well soon, Brent!; 3:31 PM
Matthew Thorburn said...: Hi Brent, I hope you're feeling better and on the mend. I just checked your blog today and saw the news -- and the poem. Talk about taking the write a poem every day pledge seriously! Get well soon. You're in my thoughts,

Matt; 3:45 PM
Lyle Daggett said...: Saw the link about this in Dumbfoundry and came here. I do hope your recovery and healing go well.; 7:58 PM
Andrew Shields said...: I hope you recover quickly and fully, Brent!; 3:43 AM
jillypoet said...: You are a true poet--kind of the "mailman" of poets--through rain, sleet, snow, heart attack... I hope you have a speedy recovery! Be good to your poetic heart!; 8:42 AM
Liz said...: Hi Brent,

Wishing you a speedy recovery.

all the best,
Liz; 9:50 AM