Pollen MemoryTender Buttons, 2003 - 62 pages Poetry. "These poems in prose are instructions for (not interpretations of) dreams and, as such of intrinsic value. They take fully into account 'what is lost, ' 'what cannot be told, ' 'the missing object, ' the 'no one to blame.' They ring true."--Keith Waldrop "With a knowledge of what has come before, Laynie Brown charts the processes of natural phenomenon by means of a lyric tuned to the harmony of the spheres. POLLEN MEMORY marks the journey of a poet who listens to important things that most of us take for granted--it is both hypnotic and wise."--Lisa Jarnot |
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appear as runes arrive assemble all questions Award bodily build calendar resemblances calm certainty unpinned circles climb continue to move darkness double in calendar Dreams appear dress dunes dwelling eyes fear of appointments fluttering follow forgotten Fossils continue frequencies gems horizon impulse Knowing landscape later LAYNIE BROWNE Leaves and needles Leaving the body Letters light Listen look lost madness MEMORY POLLEN MEMORY movement needles resemble rain Nights double notion Opiate mirror past patterns pause Peripheral vision test phrases place shared poem Poetry POLLEN MEMORY POLLEN presence Pulling quiet Quietly becoming rain in sound remember scatter sea simply Seattle seemed shared by coincidence shell becomes siren Sleep slide solitary spinning stars step stop surface swept to sea tell temperate things touch would assemble transmit transparent tree triangle underneath UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN vanishes overhead vessel a shell Walking wind woods inside York City