Poem-A-Day: Dolphinating by Juan Felipe Herrera

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2013)              Poem-A-Day Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-A-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Browse the Poem-A-Day Archive.     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.  Related Poems Bomb Crater Sky by Lam Thi My Da December 2, 2002 by Juliana Spahr  it: a user's guide by Evie Shockley  __________________________ Love reading Poem-A-Day? Help support it today.     Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.

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