Chilwell, UK Sent Friday 1st October 2010 Arrived Saturday, 2nd October 2010 Emailed back Saturday, 2nd October 2010 I've been considering the meanings you give to litter. A recycling point, dust & liquids from leftover nights, or crumbs paths, directions for lost cats?
Sydenham, London, UK Sent Friday 1st October 2010 Received Saturday 2, October 2010 Emailed back Saturday 2, October 2010 Love- not a topic- it is hard, true emotion (heartfelt, vital, deep) needs more than poetry can do. Perhaps at best words can mean an embrace, long and warm, strong, a tie that can't be broken. I'll always suffer trying to convey your beauty, love, so please accept this piece of failure, written with raindrops, heart and mi alma enamorada.
Claremont, CA Sent Thursday 30 September 2010 Arrived Saturday, 2 October 2010 Emailed back Sunday, 3 October 2010 I hope this poem finds you well This poem hopes you find it better
Valhalla, NY, USA Posted Saturday 02 October 2010 Received and emailed back on Tuesday October 05, 2010. "The hall of the Chosen Dead," New York, City of the Gods, but not quite there, old Norse, the Valkyres might have cried on Jefferson Avenue, begged for a little piece of bliss, "what kind of dream is it?" Before daybreak Odin might ask, I expect, with these dumb verses, heroes' coming to the darkened world.
Sacramento, California, USA Sent Thursday 30 September 2010 Arrived Wednesday 06 October 2010 Emailed back Thursday 07 October 2010 'California Dreaming' is hallucinating of days where foreign people sunbathe without passports green cards tests of English. The coast is made of skin.
West Dulwich, London, UK Sent Tuesday 05 October 2010 Arrived Wednesday, 06 October 2010 Emailed back in the wee hours of Thursday, 07 October 2010 I've heard lions roar & dance in the vicinities of South East (London) or maybe is it West but the point is the wildness of fierce youth (& the commuting).
Bristol, UK Sent on Tuesday 05 October 2010 Arrived and emailed back on Friday 08 October 2010 Some might say "home is where the cat is," but Orlando can't speak, not like humans do, yet he knows all about coffee and brown teapots, morning cryptic crosswords and the slicing of crusty bread. A bottle of milk keeps disappearing. I'm sure cats know the answer to that puzzle. The beauty of life can be found in warmth, the pensive observation of every night & day.
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Sent Thursday 30 September 2010 Arrived Friday 08 October 2010 Emailed back Saturday 09 October 2010 You cannot live on words only. Houses are not built on poems. The warmth of homes is different.
Cambridge, MA, USA Sent Thursday 5 October 2010 Arrived Saturday, 9 October 2010 Emailed back Monday, 11 October 2010 So you like to bet on Lobo- it makes perfect sense, honestly, since the cobblestones grassy quadrangles there must be getting terribly cold. The elephant remembers the new lands- the Mayflower people shaded their horses in the seas of the West. Howl, Mexican, blood, for the moon also sets in Lisbon, & London. Howl, for the pack must stay together
St Helena, CA Sent Thursday 30 September 2010 Arrived Monday, 04 October 2010 Emailed back Tuesday, 12 October 2010 Words fly off. Sometimes they find a home. Often they return in strange shapes.
Santa Fe, NM USA Sent Tuesday 5 October 2010 Arrived and emailed back on Tuesday, 12 October 2010 Some strange folk suffer from addictions: celluloide, chocolate, the expressions of film and foil. There lies a faith in things resembling religious inspiration a sincere willingess to give hands (a standing ovation) even when the actresses & all are far away & maybe deaf. Before gold there was cocoa coins. The passion of dreams is judged by all, eventually.
Hartford, CT, USA Sent Friday 1st October 2010 Received Saturday, 9 October 2010 Photo taken early morning Tuesday, 12 October 2010 Emailed back Wednesday 13 October 2010 It is well known, is it not, that the sea comes & goes, gives & takes; it is always there. Its movement makes us feel hope is made of sunsets, dawn, everything a reason for something else.
Kent, Ohio, USA Sent Friday 1st October 2010 Arrived Saturday 09 October 2010 Emailed back Wednesday 13 October 2010 History, series of instants followed by other instants and places; town names existing, shamelessly living a double life.
Québec, Canada Sent Monday 4 October 2010 Arrived Tuesday 12 October 2010 Emailed back Friday, 15 October 2010 Había una vez una calle canadiense (las calles canadienses son distintas) una de nombre "regreso", o quizá "vuelta", aunque dicen los que saben que de ahí nadie ha regresado. Por la noche la nieve cubre ronquidos lentos, cariñosos. la luna alumbra blancuras que deslumbran a viajeros somnolientos. Hay que tener cuidado de nunca resbalarse.
Castroville, CA, USA Sent Saturday 02 October 2010 Received ca. Friday, 08 October 2010 Emailed back Sunday, 17 October 2010 Most Babaylans before those of my language arrived on the islands were miracle women, you know this but the centre was the healing of the body & the healing of the heart. Poetess, Priest, angel, your inked hands touched my tongue still hurting for adobo smelling of the 'mole' of my grandparents, even those I never made my own.
San Francisco, CA, USA Sent Tuesday 05 October 2010 Arrived Friday 15 October 2010 Emailed back Thursday 21 October 2010 The bridge is suspended by cables of mist. River- coast to coast the air has another smell. Japanese gardens flowered along the building of rails smell of soy sauce & oranges, sweaty denim and a salad of foreign tongues. Lights still flood the city through thick fog & heartbreak. Here rebirth means never to forget. Listen to beggars: they speak truth.
Portsmouth, NH, USA Sent Friday 1st October 2010 Arrived Saturday 16 October 2010 Emailed back Sunday 24 October 2010 The Waterfront City is known by supporters as the ancient, glorious Pompey. Not to be confused with 'Pompeii' or, as the guide warns us, 'Pompei.' And you, across the salty seas, behind -indeed- the Salt Pile, what mist, overcast weather shelters your home? What reflections link the old river with the Piscataqua, what rain type will greet what you now hold?
