Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Sep 13, 2011, 12:36 pm
They say mother’s cannot chose their favorites, and I know this is true, for some but I was young once, and remember what it meant to be inborn and birthed from you, and that is enough: Only the second born to attach to this union, in a hand-me-down fashion no one appreciated. No one does.
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Sep 12, 2011, 2:02 am
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Sep 8, 2011, 11:00 pm
This poem appeared in Vox Poetica Contributor Series 7: The Confessional Diary of Bone. But what of them, mere sponge pumps keeping the trains on time (but one maiden clinging to the track slows the whole system down). They beat in sync with everything, boringly rising and falling, as expected, like...
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Sep 8, 2011, 10:57 pm
has lashed out at my relationship. The islands of the Caribbean carry rightful namesakes: Les îsle des Caraïbes, triste y olvidado, plein de force, fuerzas de la naturaleza, and fully set aside by English. Loose lips may sink ships, but temperamental mouths forced shut by oppressors can ruin relat...
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Sep 8, 2011, 10:52 pm
I will go out for help, hunter and gatherer style, among the hillsides, and not tremble with fear when approaching where the winds come like howling gods, forcing grass blades into submission, despite the hungry teeth and fierce beaks waiting atop. I will spread out so that my arms become my wingspa...
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Sep 8, 2011, 10:51 pm
It is as if Kafka has written me into a bee wandering among wildflowers, drawn by your colors, but choosing to alight and kiss upon black stamens. I can now go places unseen, traversing beyond the pretty surface of petals and along your stem — all the way to the very root that binds me
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Sep 8, 2011, 10:38 pm
I have reconciled myself with being overlooked, and with London so near, she steals all the attention. Listen for my cries, and dare to trace my curves down into the rural bush, thick with laurel and mayapple. Come until you can go no further, and where the road ends I will great you with wetness.
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Sep 8, 2011, 12:11 am
Pussycat, batten down the hatches, for your lives are numbered: Hurricane Justin eases this way, a gentle category one quickly churning to two. Clothes cast aside to foreign corners:
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Jul 5, 2011, 3:19 pm
Questions One and Two: Yes, time has stopped and there are minutes, hours, and evenings that went uncollected, barely recognizable in the scornful heat of the day after a night full of good time fun that shocked neighbors, friends, and families with how loud I could laugh. Question 3: There are cars...
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Jun 29, 2011, 8:53 am
They glide cautiously, like Hyperion and Titan, close enough to gaze into the other’s eyes and surmise required rejection and curious longing. At times, the pale face reaches for the darker, as if pulled by post-colonial cosmic tides spanning geological epochs: Holocene to Ionian. Gaps in understa...
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Jun 18, 2011, 2:37 am
In youth, I enacted dramas in the living room
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Apr 22, 2011, 10:02 am
I stumbled upon Death standing at the return counter, arguing to make an exchange without the courtesy of a receipt. What’s he doing here, I thought. He scowled, rolled his eyes: The national debt’s growing, man, and God is dying, he said, or, thermodynamics being what they are, more like on lif...
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Feb 27, 2011, 11:01 am
I have missed that spring song through the doldrums of the season, the cheerful chirping, the upbeat praise and worship, jubilantly calling: Rise up! Rise up! Rise up! Rise up you sun to warm the day Rise up you winds to call in the season Rise up you rains to wash away the mourning In
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Feb 25, 2011, 10:51 am
What is truth? Is it the recollected pieces of a night that occurred over 10 years ago finally disclosed between shots and gulps of Bourbon? Is it slivers of recreation from recollection super-glued together to make an understanding? Is it reflection of how we see things gazing back through time, vi...
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Feb 19, 2011, 4:00 pm
Togetherness Happiness is no longer an individual matter, it is something that needs protecting, one's for the other's. The formations rise up, making a steady foundation, impossible for scaling, like the Palisades over the Licking. If you are not happy, I am not happy; there ceases to be an us, our...
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Feb 17, 2011, 6:01 pm
Bryan Borland has certainly outdone himself with this collection of poets.  His absence from the blogosphere is missed, but if he is devoting that time and energy into corralling such a great group of artistic talent so that it can be shared with the masses, then, by all means, Bryan, please contin...
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Feb 2, 2011, 7:45 pm
There are many things that don’t mix; blues and snow on cold Kentucky cow paths are not three of them. Driving alone, surrounded by pitch black and box guitar Delta blues that beckon Robert Johnson to emerge from the tree line: These are things that beg for one another.
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Jan 29, 2011, 12:36 am
Never did I dare to dream of deserts, how they, too, collect things and arrange them into collages: Red pebbles mistaken for grass, cacti growing in hardened earth and not on big box store shelves, brazen palms touching the sky without a sea in sight, and trees I could never name more glorious than ...
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Jan 24, 2011, 8:50 pm
There are paths, bush hogged through blackberry brambles, making a beeline for grandparents; then there are those overgrown trails meandering through hollers to birch tree shrine groves carved with hieroglyphs of love’s losses over time. Creek beds can make a fine thoroughfare to wild rivers, but ...
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Jan 24, 2011, 8:48 pm
It’s an old Chevy, ain’t too much, busted windows, broken clutch, just a get-me-round the farm car, outside Kentucky, it won’t get me far. All my ancestors are nothing but slaves shackled to the earth in cold damp graves. It just burned out, the bright Northern star. And wishing to leave won�...
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Jan 19, 2011, 9:18 pm
Paranoia, all paranoia, has a reasonable start. Mine was completely justifiable. If you don’t have a problem with monopolized, Catholocized healthcare serving a region of approximately one million people, then you’re the crazy. When they ask you your religious preference in the ER, you better be...
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Jan 15, 2011, 1:05 pm
The url with my name is going to expire sometime in February. I do not plan on renewing it, at least not at the moment, as I do not see the value in doing so for another year. You may want to update your blog readers with the “hidden” url (the one WordPress has always
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Jan 10, 2011, 12:33 am
How many times have we been burned at the stake, forced to walk the plank, weighed down beneath the river’s fury, maybe dunked, tied to a chair, or perhaps crushed under the weight of limestone slabs throughout the ages for our only sin: love?
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Dec 20, 2010, 12:44 pm
Octagonal House Originally uploaded by Telvsn This is an octagonal plantation that I saw in Mississippi, I think. I can’t remember where I took the photo, but I’m sure it was as I was passing through, as I’ve never intentionally visited Mississippi for any given period of time, except for that...
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Dec 20, 2010, 12:42 pm
Henry Clay Estate Originally uploaded by Telvsn Ashland, which is outside of Lexington, KY, and was the estate of Henry Clay, who helped to delay the Civil War, but whom I don’t care too much for because I seem to appreciate the complex bad-assedness of Clay’s arch rival, President Jackson (even...
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Dec 20, 2010, 12:41 pm
Kentucky Barn Originally uploaded by Telvsn This is an old Kentucky barn somewhere in south central Kentucky, probably around the Bluegrass region. A lot of what I draw comes from photos that I take first.
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Dec 20, 2010, 12:39 pm
Old Kentucky Plantation Originally uploaded by Telvsn An old, small Kentucky plantation along the Ohio River. Wish I was artistic enough to include the old man sitting in his rocking chair on the porch. Doesn’t it make you wish for a hot Kentucky summer and a mint julep?
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Dec 20, 2010, 12:38 pm
Felicity Plantation Originally uploaded by Telvsn A little sketch of a plantation I drove by in Vacherie, LA, which inspired me to write some of the earlier Geography of Love poems.
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Dec 20, 2010, 12:36 pm
Lighthouse Originally uploaded by Telvsn A little sketch I did while contemplating “light.”
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Dec 19, 2010, 1:43 pm
It started with a mysterious email from Luke Armstrong asking me to read his poetry and provide a review. He had stumbled upon my own poetry on my blog, but I couldn’t recall ever having any interaction with him, so I was skeptical of the request. After some thought, I decided to invite him to
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Dec 17, 2010, 8:46 am
Perhaps one day I will wish for left-behind glasses, or gone astray peanut shells, to stumble upon a hamper of abandoned clean laundry; for now, I grumble in your wake, organizing these simple pleasures and putting things in proper places. Until then, promise if I go first you will never be on Hoard...
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Dec 10, 2010, 8:05 am
In the dark of December mornings, my lips explore, searching, asking: What part of you is this? Temple? High-rise of cheekbone? Curl of snail shell ear or path of arm dipping into a valley of palm before forking off in five directions? Is this the place where two roads meet or the moon’s far side?
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Dec 6, 2010, 4:55 pm
You are the thing for which I thirst: An effervescing spring pulled up by pump house, lured from wild hollows into obsidian confines of cement cistern walls under front porch planks. This is not the nature of untamed things pouring fourth. Four walls do not suit you. If you are confined, I am welled...
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Dec 1, 2010, 11:28 pm
Bisexuality eh compassion, la compassion, la compassione an see moment. May ici the impatience. So I luck four humor in May’s Amy. In some centers and centres, being Sagittarius is a fault. See, I should have been uno arquitecto de azteca. La! Simplicity. Eh, la whore is Don Baltimore. Sufrimiento...
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Nov 29, 2010, 8:09 am
Many things. I wasn’t looking forward to them. For starters, I’m recovering from a 7-day staycation, during which I didn’t do a damn thing. So, of course, work has piled up and waiting for me. Not looking forward to that. In addition, the server at work also went on permanent vacation. Eleven ...
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Nov 24, 2010, 4:04 pm
On second thought, we will celebrate at Acapulco or Peking, where Mexicans and Chinese happily accept our huddled, hungered, turned away masses, for only $5.95, lunch special. Forgo the yams, turkey, pumpkin, and assortment of labors: Come with me; lift your Patrón and Tsingtao sky-high to give tha...
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Nov 24, 2010, 11:08 am
They come from the pons for interpretation through smoky incense burnings others might mistake for fog. One by one they gather, from places like May Pen and Brooks, scrawling, curving, and arching in cryptic mirrors, portal windows, and catacomb shower doors: Beer jug A pharoah Moisture from the sky...
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Nov 24, 2010, 10:27 am
Searching for her was never easy, from the rust-belt days of youth to the time where yellow fin swim; you could chart the course with fingers limply tracing shorelines that skirt from Anne Arundel, around the curves of Saint Mary, all the way to Prince George, but that goes too far and desert days o...
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Nov 21, 2010, 1:10 am
you met me there: a card appeared in the passenger side with flowers and zig zag bees and what not and want not. There was a rose I did not expect and did not want because it was despite the distance: from low tide to high tide, from remembering to Kentucky, from forgetting to Louisiana.
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Nov 19, 2010, 7:55 am
So, I’ve been discovered by a family member. It didn’t surprise me since I figured it would happen eventually. After all, my domain name is my name. What surprised me, though, was the response. Whether I tell someone I write poetry or they find out on their one because of my site, I always get
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Nov 15, 2010, 10:06 am
There are warnings in stockpiles of mass mailings returning to earth just beyond abandoned monolithic post offices turned slaughterhouses no one dares to enter in the dark days of a late drought-dreary fall. Turn your back, and doors creak open. Quickly ascend the hillsides without looking behind: Y...
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Nov 8, 2010, 3:13 pm
I really enjoyed this book. I found it because I’ve been reading a lot of magical realism lately, and it was my follow up to “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” I was not too impressed with “Oscar,” and so I am trying not to compare the two while writing this review… First, Gaiman
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Nov 4, 2010, 7:03 am
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz My rating: 2 of 5 stars I would have likely given this one star if it hadn’t given me such a great chuckle at the end. The joke was clearly on me, the reader. It seems that “life” in this book is just a metaphor
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Nov 3, 2010, 1:58 pm
wants to put flowers upon his tomb. The last time she saw him happy was on election day, and I remember: he did a jig for Clinton all along the living room floor, scooping her up into his arms and forcing her into his merriment. She laughed, clapped, and sang: “He’s going to be a
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Nov 1, 2010, 5:40 pm
I Save it for later with all the graciousness of a fourteen year old Olympian win II. Want = to revert back + peaceful times = asking for ice crystals to glide around the moon x a halo / book of well-kept secrets is = or > III. On November 13th my grandfather was buried.
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Nov 1, 2010, 4:51 pm
What is there to fear when countless souls have endured me, measuring remaining nights with moon and tide, or counting days with suns and seasons? See the الكلب with its tiresome eye, the scattering of miere around ton marchepied, the 鼠標 scurrying along hallway walls searching for sanctuary...
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Nov 1, 2010, 4:16 pm
Why do you always get the side that draws eucalyptus, where city lights fear to tread? Why is it I must settle for the sun’s greeting while you rest in night’s shade? Yours is where the wind least howls, where the moon cannot reach, where the soothing sound of rain whispers, not the sound of
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Oct 29, 2010, 3:04 pm
Intro The carcass repulses me. As a child, I would’ve gleefully pointed it out and pranced around before poking it with a stick or lifting it by its painfully curled foot, letting it dangle from my fingers while chasing terrorized friends or teasing the hungry dog. Gone are the days when I would�...
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Oct 29, 2010, 10:08 am
Place is a powerful concept. Barbara Goldberg has said that to love a place is to love where you are, to know it is beyond compare, the air, the scent, it might as well be skin… to feel at one yet fully other in this diverse dominion. Place is potent, good and bad. You can
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Telly M. posted an article on WTF* - Oct 17, 2010, 6:48 pm
Had I known we were in the final stretch, I would have clung to you more tightly, instead of almost floating between your fingers. Win, place, or show: You could have me. Who leaves someone during a party without looking back? Did you not even think of me after the concessions? The others did not
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