BlueBook

Book #7 can be purchased through Small Press Distribution, http://www.spdbooks.org/ or directly from Kevin Opstedal at 386 Madeline Court, Palo Alto CA 94306---Send $5. (Sample poems below)

Sunday in the Storm Era / Joanne Kyger "these are extraordinary times" so we can do whatever we want ha ha the sky darkens      stitching the white pillow cover      If I had my way I'd sit and watch the grey and poundy waves all day . . .      The candle lights for Cypress must be down at the channel now where the tide rushes out from the lagoon and keeps on going out way out . . . remember?                                         now the evening sky                                looks pretty clear                                                            that                        was a history                      just happened                                                          December 2, 2001     Transmission / Micah Ballard Beneath the lethargic stars my lady, she sleeps in her head a torpid elegy of gone days spread across an ivory landscape. Down deep in her thoughts consists a place so far removed a face of grossly proportions the voice of an ex-lover. I let them speak alone. Leave them to their litanies myself to obtain a violence they never intended to uncover. How quickly she awakens! Way soon to leave behind but slow enough to explain-for all he ever was comes to begin with this what last was hers is now mine and will be more but always less.   You Broke My Heart, Now I'm Gonna Break Something of Yours / Noel Black My hair is suckin today- too much Tin Tin & not enough James Dean . . . I need to rewire my wings before I'm seen Been thinking about ketchup & 50,000 batteries & "Angie": a movie about 2 raccoons who fondle a log while Herzog confuses Poetical with Political to explain the ecstatic truth as Dock Boggs plays "Sugar Baby" beneath the rattling bone palm tree of a Kevin Opstedal poem Don't get it? I once lived in a languor-unlovely & lacking Not a friend on earth to be found But now I wear an astroturf star to prove my heart unzips- Inside you'll find a pink candy heart- It says "U R A 10" . . . I give it to you again & again