Poetaster's
Delight
The P - - - -
y of Magellan's Log
by Doc Cuddy, Editor
Vainglory retards.
We are certainly as vainglorious as the next
publication. Diet Dr Pepper breaks around here are sometimes punctuated by vainglorious
musings about what the future will make of these 4,200 cyber-smudged pages we've thrown to
the digital winds.
Which of our many clevernesses will posterity
especially treasure? At times we think it will be the oh-so-witty satire, at
other times maybe the oh-so-insightful cultural commentary. Or perhaps the (we feel)
presently much-under-attended to multimedia stufflet.
Tucked way over in the corner of many an issue, though,
lurk shards of p - - - - y. Often announced disparagingly ("Warning: Poetry
Ahead!"), these charged words hang here and there aflap in the Internet breeze with
the pure insousiance of innocence and hard-won truth, like Amazon orchids,
to be found and admired only by the most dedicated, wide-eyed seekers.
Surprised--and possibly alarmed--at the quantity (far
be it from us to tout the possible quality) of p - - - - y that we had published, we
paused to ponder. Maybe the times are trying to tell us something: Early
issues have little or no p - - - - y, but as the year rolled on, quite unself-consciously,
more and more lines appeared which, whatever else they may be, aren't prose.
Somewhat disturbingly, it occurs to us that all that
other stuff on which we currently so pride ourselves may vanish like last year's
Pulitzer Prize winners, and what will stay and stay and stay will be the untended
children, these now metrical, now assymetrical musings of a staff at tether's end in
darkest night.
On the off-chance that such is the case, and on the
even more unlikely off-chance that poetry-starved readers may pass this
way anytime soon, we've gone to the trouble of making a list of links to the--pardon the
expression--p - - - - y of Magellan's Log. We offer no guarantee that the list is complete
(we tired quickly of sifting through 4,200 pages of sterling prose in search of what
may--or may not--be mere Zircons).
The list is in alphabetical order. Note also that,
while most of the links are to one-page efforts, there are several um sets of efforts
which modesty prevents us from calling "cycles." These longer works are marked
with an asterisk.
The P - - - - y of Magellan's
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After Shocks. Fourteen lines beyond the
kindergarten
playpen of this tinkertoy technology.
Akt: New Poems for the New Millennium. Robert
Lonoke.*
Amenhotep: A Wounded Sonnet. Denise Hawkins.
Ants, etc. Yet more p----y, of
interest to only 0.0001% of our readers.
Apocalypse Whenever.
Rean Rhyne waxes poetic about how near the end is and what that means.
The Arrogance of Vision. Elinor
Hoefs on the hazards
of visual acuity.
Askew. Rean Rhyne obscure
little bit of doggerel about
the perils of Zen.
At the Time of the Extinction of the Fire.
Robert Watson.
Lines for solstices.
Beginner's Guide to Misery. Anonymous.
Blinders
Begone! Rean Rhyne megalomaniacally
formulates "Rhyne's Law" re the fate of civilizations.
Blue Red. Three wee sentences to
help with today's synamptic re-wiring. You're welcome.
Bowser Barks. Pedro Bofecillos
on the poet's position vis-a-vis stuff.
Buddhist's Lament. Pedro Bofecillos.
Canaries in the American Coal Mine.
In which our editor responds to our publisher's complaint about all the poetry we've been
printing lately.
Canon Fodder. Poetry by
Izora Firelands.
Caveat Emperor.
In-house prophet Cassandra lets loose with a few lines of verse re what's coming.
Chum.
Cockleburr
Kin: Notes toward an Autobiography.
Douglas Milburn. With midi.
The Cocksucker Sings of Paradise. Didio
Antis's 3
quatrains on the still-born millennium.
Coming Soon in a Dream Near You. Brief
oneiric commentary.
The Cosmos and I. Pedro Bofecillos.
Poetry. Approach
at your own risk.
Country Bumpkins. Nicholas Momurray
obfuscates
brilliantly.
DADDY. H.B. Kulup laments poetically
the constancy of Father's Day.
Descartes
enters the Information Age. Your existence
validated, free of charge.
Desire.
Douglas Milburn. Nineteen slightly provocative
words.
Distant Applause: Late
Poems.
Easter Surprise. An infinitely repeating
little slideshow
with midi.
The Edges of Divnity; or, Is God a Necrophile.
Reppy
Duart, D.D. A multi-media theater piece that you
can play on your very own computer. Not safe for
theologically tender ears.*
8-lane Quatrains. A nano-second epiphany
on Interstate 10 near downtown Houston.
Enter,
Wilderness. Ceci Lumley on where the 21st
century is going, like it or not.
Extensions. Temple Duciel, abstract as ever,
poor
fellow.
The Eyes Have It. Douglas Milburn. Thinking beyond
the box.
Fables of Innocence and
Experience. Lucas Covert.
With apologies to Wm. Blake.*
The Fifteenth Line. Robert Lonoke's latest
visionary
poem.
51-L Threnody: In Memorium. Douglas Milburn, on
Challenger, and now Columbia.
Flat Heat. Don Pfingston. A brief, colorful
commentary
on seasonal reality.
Flöh Haz: On Inferring the Existence of Trees.
Astraeu Chakar poetizes desert-wise.
Fraught: Faux Sonnet on the Analogies
of Human Emergences.
Chardo Blue Plains. More metaphysical blather from
our itinerent mystic.
Galveston Sconces. Jason
Twinhaft on islands trapped
in the past (with midi).
The Games of Childhood. Marcella T. Perry. An
unknown poet's global debut.
Ghiberti Gawkers. Observations in the
midst of a madding crowd of impatient loiterers just outside Eden.
Go Fish. Izora
Firelands, naturist extraordinaire, on incomplete anglers.
The Graspable Truths of
Kindergarten. Stickum No. 291, 480.
The Great Hunger. The
latest update from Chardo
Blue Plains, staff mystic.
Handle with Care. Hinko Livernoix. Remarks
on
the theater and other matters.
The Healing of America. US and wilderness.
The Helios Cycle.*
Herrje, Herrje! An anonymous German
reader's poem,
about which probably the less said, the better.
Hither, Thither, and Yon. Elinor
Hoefs' 12 lines on how spanking and string theory look from L.A.
Holy Halls. An old song of
love and tolerance meets a
much older landscape. With midi.
Home. Five lines of dangerously hopeful p----y by
Mr. Chardo Blue Plains. Warning: Some readers will be offended by the graphic.
Home, Sweet Home. Harriet Lobdell's words of
wisdom re
religion, politics, science, etc.
Horological Bequest.
Robert Lonoke on single vision and Newton's sleep.
Humans R Us. Chardo Blue
Plains at his beatitudinous best.
HUSH! Horticulturalist Izora Firelands's bit of
admonitory free-verse.
The Hustling Vanities of Sentient Dust.
Elisabeth Ney.
Hymnlet to the Night. Chardo Blue Plains offers a
few
thoughts on night dwellers. With midi.
Ice 43. Nine lines re frozen minds and seas.
Implications.
Pedro Bofecillos uses eight words to make
two statements and ask two questions.
In the Gloaming. Robert L. Tufford. Nature poets
we
shall always have with us.
The Invisible World of Daddies. Didio
Antis has been reading old Chinese texts again. His response this time? A BIG nineliner.
Invitation to an Illusion.
Ceci Lumley's ten lines of non-prose re,
well, everything.
I.Q. Sylvia Thodhiss
vents gently about cats, trees, me,
and perhaps thee.
Irrational Exuberances. Piongo Pisgah. Notes from
the end of a marriage of inconvenience.
Koans for the 21st Century. Twelve, count
'em, twelve.
Laissez-foutre. Poet Cheki Boggus takes us
beyond
laissez-faire into realms where angels fear to tread.
Languages &
Landscapes. Izora Firelands waxes, um,
poetic.
Leçons des Ordinateurs de ténèbres. Once again we make it our business to alienate readers by publishing
p----y.
Lines
Composed on Mount Holyoke a Few Miles Above the Oxbow of the Connecticut River, 2006.
Douglas Milburn.
Lines Found by Mr. Temple
Duciel in the Poste
Restante, Duino, Italy.
Lines to a Father on His Day. Henry Bob Kulup on
daddies and their violence, both private and public.
The Maggots of Belsen.
Me and My Mayhaws. Douglas Milburn
anthropomizes
two plants.
Meteoropticon. Chardo Blue Plains. New Age
glop
or deep wisdom?
Milburn's Razor. An addendum to Occam's
Razor,
for the new millennium.
Minds Like Ours. Ho-hum. Six more
pretentious
sentences from our editor in chief.
Minds Like Ours. Sylvia Sikeston on trees
and people.
Morning Becomes Ruth. An English village, a
Texas spring, and a few words. Slideshow with
midi (2:32).
Nought for All & All for Nought. Chardo Blue
Plains,
on his latest wanderings.
One haiku and another.
1-Worders.
On Reading
Burgess's Shakespeare. In The
Chiliastic Hideon.
The Ossification of
Dominant Beliefs. Sylvia Thodhiss. P----y.
Patience. A
pixel-stitched sampler for a troubling age.
Pentimento. Edward Hothi.
Photon's Lament. Harriet Lobdell sums a lot of
it up
in six lines.
Pixels' Delight. Mystic Chardo Blue
Plains's latest
enigmatic report from the American Outback.
Promontories. Anna Marie Quave waxes poetic
re vanity, etc.
The Rainbow Bird. Dire decades needs strong
songs. Slideshow with midi (6:22).
Rashomonian
Irregularites. Bloce Kaibab.
Reading Readiness. Bob Odom.
The Regretful Visitor. Chardo Blue Plains reports
again from the empyrean.
Re: View. Saramae Anahuac has wrote a pome.
Rootless. Harriett Lobdell's lines on the true
value
of silence.
Scotsman's Delight. James Macpherson III
with 14
lines of obduracy, or something. With midi.
Sensing. Stickum No. 291,478. Bemused by bemazed
micelets.
A Shard of Sky. Astraeu Chakar.
Poetry. Brief, but
still poetry.
Shared Roots. Astraeu Chakar. Lines of hope.
Ship Ahoy! An anonymous member of
our rambunctious staff
indulges in p----y. Again. This time on navigation. Or
something.
Shiva Dancing.
The Silent Minority. Phalba Gallatin on
those who
know but do not speak.
Singing Lessons. Pedro Bofecillos on
violence, fathers,
sons, and hope.
Solar Reflections. Piongo Pisgah's lines
on the solstice.
So Long, Shakespeare. Five more
lines of p - - - - y, much to our publisher's disgruntlement.
Some Unknown Thousands of
Years Ago. Chardo Blue
Plains's latest mystical suggestion.
Storm Warning. Itinerant mystic Chardo Blue
Plains's
latest weather report.
Taughtology. Katherine Ozanic. Nine words to
live by.
10.5. Douglas Milburn. Opening lines of
unwritten books.
The Texas Zen Hymnbook.*
Things Fall Apart. Joey Ancaster.
Timid Thinkers. Our thought for the
biennium.
Toilet Training. Six sad and angry lines
from Harriet
Lobdell.
Totentänze. Hurd Bohner.
Poetic artifacts from the
early 1960s.*
Trees. Nicholas Momurray revisits
Joyce Kilmer. Somewhat immodestly.
Tree Talks. Our book-length
translation of the long-lost
Chinese classic.*
Two Rooms in Houston. Edward Hothi
re Rothko and Twombly in 12 lines.
Unicorn News. In-depth team
coverage about a
u-sighting in Houston.
Unscientific
Questions. Rean Rhyne on the limits (and limitations) of "science."Unscientific Questions. Rean Rhyne on
the limits (and limitations) of "science."
Watch It! Obscurantist
editor Piongo Pisgah with a few "words of advice for aspirant metaphysicians."
Watch, Out! Jason Twinhaft on the
dangers of clock-watching.
Weeds. A hectoring question
or a gentle reminder?
We Live in a Library. Cheki Boggus sums
everything
up in 50 words or less.
Where. Katherine Ozanic stumbles.
The Wise and Foolish Virgins One More Time.
Anonymous, on pain.
Wittgenstein Clarified. Piongo Pisgah
answers all
your questions in 2 sentences.
Writ in Stone. Seven marmoreal tablets
from a
mythical city.
Yoga Tip. Piongo Pisgah sums it all up in one
sentence.
The Zen Writer's Progress. Ten tortuous steps
on
the brambly path of the wholly word-addled.
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