Saturday, October 17, 2009

THE TREE WAS GREEN















Alone,
Up in the tree
Is a red wheel barrow upon which I thought I could
/ depend.

                  






                                   -KIRBY OLSON










....originality becomes him

3 comments:

J said...

Turned out it was made by godless lib-rawls, possibly even pinkos--so Kirby decided to get the one with the American flag and crosses on it.

jh said...

i think the issue in this world class poem is who put it in the tree and why is it up there leaving the persona of the poem so destitute...i mean we're not really talking about kirby here are we

i like this poem because it sort of paints a wierd mustache on william carlos williams' portrait...he being to american poetry what the mona lisa is to european painting

or am i overstating the case

any way i just hope he gets this poem into some sort of 21st century anthology of neo-surrealism or something

or else it will be lost forever perhaps only to remain by virtue on my printing it out on this blog

de gustibus indeed

i've never come across anyone like kirby he labors at being innocuous and you've got to give him some credit for that

i honestly think that if he lost all his blog tomorrow he'd consider it like a lost coupon for savings on a box of graham crackers at the store
little more

i can't get my mind around the poem
what the hell is that wheel barrow doing in the tree and why did dr williams not notice it in the first place
probably because he was distracted with KORA or something

anyway
one can't help but feel the disappointment in kirby's words here

tra la la

jh

J said...

he being to american poetry what the mona lisa is to european painting

or am i overstating the case



The latter. What did Frosty Bob say about vers libre?? Badminton with the net down or something. Williams is Mona Lisa on black velvet in the parlor. That's Kirby as well, but he puts a crucifixion in it....and Mona Lisa morphs into ...Mona Luther

Poet I am not --but at least aged, poetic manly men--say Wordsworth--understand meter, and the rest, including rhyme (though rhyming can be sing-songy, if not silly, when done ineptly--as it usually is) In latin, as well as other euro-tongues.


Yes, metaphor mixed as well . Really, Kirby seems damn near psychotic, but at times nearly amusing.