Tapestries and Strange Imaginings

[Tony Hoffman]

Just because it's April. April, don't be a harsh mistress.

1. The Way of the World
2. One Fine Day in Belmont Park
3. My Siri Answers to Cookie Monster
4. [Tokyo / Kyoto]
5. The Thirteenth Monkey
6. Musings while Riding the R Train
7. Poet in Space: Preflight Check
8. This Message Contains No Content
9. Boaty McBoatface
10. Flying Over Greenland
11. On Finding out for Sure that I'm Part Jewish, at the Age of 56
12. Driverless Car
13. Shadowland
14. Ode to Lambency
15. Two Unsung Heroes
16. Tree
17. Grand Finale
18. Atomic Weasel
19. Caterpillars of the Sun
20. [Cybertechnology Dactyl]
21. On Having 2.2 Percent Neanderthal Genes
22. The Last Tapestry
23. Incantata
24. Kilimanjaro
25. Alpha Centauri
26. On the R Train, 8 a.m.
27. Dominion
28. The Last Notebooks
29. [Biodiversity Dactyl]
30. Ever the Tidepool

[5th column]

Or a dull one....

[avalanche]

Oh go on...just bring it.

[merelynn]

Happy NaPoMo!

[Tony Hoffman]

Thanks, 5th column, avalanche, merelynn!

[Tony Hoffman]

The Way of the World

Is the way the ball bounces
the same as the way the cookie crumbles?
Or does the cookie crumble
because the ball has bounced on it?

[Julie]

Que sera se-crunch splat. Nice to see you here, stranger.

[vmh]

Hi Tony: High amusement factor in your first few poems. Cute premise in your first. And I've seen that happen too when my kids were little. Belmont Park sounds like a hoot.

I fear for all the "voices" that we are getting used to. Nice sendup in My Siri.

Reading Tokyo/to was fun. The mirroring pattern of the diamond was clever.

The Thirteenth Monkey asks the question, who is the monkey? Nice contrast connection to the Siri poem.

I was hoping you'd do a space poem, and I wasn't disappointed with Musings. Superclusters are beyond imagining, and then you see a diagram, and then maybe it isn't. The use of the subway and the underground works so well in contrast to the beyond. You literally brought it home.

Vicky

[Bela]

Funny stuff, Tony. I'll be mulling cookie metaphysics all day. I'm noticing a bit of an AI NaPo theme emerging - the new cat?

[prokopton]

I find reading your three poems to be comfortable.
I'm not sure if that is a good thing, nor if it is about the poems,
or me.
- liked the image of orangutans jockeying raptors
and Cookie Monster calling the shots.
Here's an image for you:
cookie monster quotes
Anyway, you have made a decent, if somewhat painless start.
I will return when the bloodletting and hair-tearing begins, see
how you're doing then, maybe before.
A final thought:
C'est le chemin la gallette desagreger!

G.