Copyright © 2009 Ernest Bloom.
the crash blossoms flower by
the hour behind yellow
trash bins of love, walkin' in a
buzz saw wonderland. hier-
archical values of skin
color molest ex-quangoeers
beset by miserable days
imprinted with the proposition that
white itself must always be viewed with
unmitigated suspicion.
This is pretty good progressive poetry. It gets under your skin, so to speak. Each word sets the mood and as a whole- they make for a really crazy ultra-linguistic party. Trash bins of love are my favorite- they relate to the feeling so many have known and can easily feel- the pain of love. But love can come in so many forms. Love for life. Love for knowledge. Love for poetry. The ending lines are delightful and profoundly thought-provoking. And white, in a way, really is a suspicious little bugger. It appears to be one color when, in fact, it is a thousand other hues that, when dispersed, blow your limping mind to the orbit with their magical infinity.
ReplyDeleteernest bloom from dan bloom in taiwan re bloomsinthenews.blogspot.com and this i am the dan bloom in the NYTimes storu Jan. 31 about crash blossoms, bloom 2 bloom, hello!
ReplyDeleteI see by the snailpapers in Britain that a major literary agent has
ReplyDeletesigned up a top journo there to write an “on language” type of book
about CRASH BLOSSOMS in the English-language media the world over, for
publication in 2012 — and advance of US$25,000 is being reported, the
writer keeping low profile, book capitalizing on Ben Zimmer’s recent
New York Times “On Language” article about said “crash blossoms” and
how they, er, bloomed, er, blossomed ….. THE BOOK SHOULD BE A WINNER!
BRAVO!
No, the book won’t be Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim, and Other Flubs
from the Nation’s Press published by Columbia Journal in 1980, before
the term “crash blossoms” bloomed, and no, it won’t be titled Red Tape
Holds Up New Bridge a 1987 tome by Gloria Cooper. The title of the
Crash Blossoms book is still tentative but for sure CRASH BLOSSOMS
will appear in the title. Any suggestions for what to call this book?
I will forward them on to the literary agent, the editor and the
author.
The book also will not be titled Anguished English: An Anthology of
Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language which Richard Lederer did in
1987.