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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Poem-A-Day: Dolphinating by Juan Felipe Herrera

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March 11, 2014

Dolphinating

by Juan Felipe Herrera
 

For Albert Goldbarth & Margarita Robles

 


Are you going to steal lines collect 

manual typewriters 8 miles high the serotonin Albert

Goldbarth mentions the sugary night the howling 

speeding most of all are you going to hobble here-- 

time travel? 

a possible future burns your dolphin karma 

forking out 500 lives from now 

Whitman in piyamas spotted leopard-like piercing 

the unavoidable Void the obsessed B-B-Q where we swoop

Ersatz 

Mojo 

Bruja                                Hoodoo scribble 

it is popping Hendrix in your head it is Joplin & 

Flor Silvestre & Rosetta Tharpe & Itzpapalotl do you know 

how awake you are 

Noble 

8 Fold Path 

too dark 

too lightning 

the visualization is next 

the Ukrainian purge the intercontinental money money 

O Tsunami where is my crystal realized selfie 

O my love my next Warhol dream in 

revolution rouge & where is 

my electric emerald wand rain Vajra 

roll the ink & fire stones          unfold the third eyes 

the ten million arms of Tara & Einstein 

of compassion of mercy of nebula rails come alive 

jellyfish flags i bow to you 

jellyfish world wheel of 

swish & suffering

  

 

  

Copyright © 2014 by Juan Felipe Herrera. Used with permission of the author.

About This Poem 

"While listening to Albert Goldbarth read his line, 'manual typewriters 8 miles high,' in rocket speed, I wrote in similar manner. Later, I chipped and chopped words. Spiced it up a little with Ishmael Reed, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Einstein--they help me think about the big picture, about kindness and the unknown."

--Juan Felipe Herrera 

Most Recent Book by Herrera





Senegal Taxi

(University of Arizona, 2013) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Juan Felipe Herrera is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently Senegal Taxi (University of Arizona, 2013). He is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, California Poet Laureate, and lives in Fresno, California. 


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