Green Rainbow Song by Cedar Sigo

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend August 29, 2014   Green Rainbow Song   Cedar Sigo

Hung up on my hearing and deep in whose playbook one too many nights and never a black-out Doing the best I can, only a man It hurts me too Blues in the night Verlaine Blues sitting here thinking a blues for Anne (all nerves) and mine the most dirty unhurried afternoon jags A freshly penned lyric for sinking to autumnal atlantean shade I wish us more luck I wish my little tiger lily sheltered in a clear crystal box (being carried) Green pearl-handled mallets edging the annunciation toward a new burn The chamber of maiden thought is metered Big fields villagers, stars on the back-lot blues it’s the smoke spot I shade softest a curve so tight its really blind the chamber gives way to the word in this case (mine)            Copyright © 2014 by Cedar Sigo. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   “Last year I began to secretly think of myself as a songwriter rather than a poet. ‘Green Rainbow Song’ is a poem that feels obsessed with its resemblance to music. It begins with music as its topic (with a few borrowed lyrics and titles slipped in) but by the second half it seems to build into the thing itself. I think this was my attempt at writing a standard, a poem I would like to hear ‘covered’ by other poets.” —Cedar Sigo   Cedar Sigo is the author of Language Arts (Wave Books, 2014). He will teach at Saint Mary’s College of California as a visiting writer in Spring of 2015. Sigo lives in San Francisco. Most Recent Book by Sigo   Language Arts (Wave Books, 2014) "A Score for Tourist Movies" by Mary Austin Speaker "Untitled" by David Meltzer "Sea and Rain: Lake Michigan" by Keith Taylor Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. 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.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038