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Recent posting on my site/poetry/not music

Hello folks: My daughter got The Poetry Show (a half-hour radio show) posted on my page, but it lists as a song. It is not a song, but I don't know how to change its description. It is an interview (very small part of whole) and original poems read on December 14. I hope that you enjoy it. The music is not mine, but the radio station's intro. Continue

Added by Julianza (Julie) Kim Shavin on January 2, 2009 at 5:20pm — 2 Comments

POEM: HOW TO EXPLAIN SUNDAY AFTERNOON

How to Explain Sunday Afternoon I've never been able to explain the pall of childhood's Sunday afternoons: breakfast first, with the runny omelets our father made only on that day, then Sunday school and afterwards, because it was the other religion's sabbath, everything worth doing shut down. Back then, there was tv only, or radio, and nothing that catered to a child; thus, you were left with family and the dog, every single one as bereft as you. Sunday afternoon was an eclipse of some… Continue

Added by Julianza (Julie) Kim Shavin on November 20, 2008 at 2:00pm — No Comments

poem In the Pet Store

In the Pet Store I saw a tiny rat, alone, quivering in a cage, “He's shaking,” I said. Is he cold?” “No,” said the man, “just hungry.” “Then why not feed him?” “Oh, there's no point. The snake will be there soon.” Copyright Julianza Shavin 2008 Continue

Added by Julianza (Julie) Kim Shavin on November 19, 2008 at 11:11pm — 1 Comment

Poetry: APOTHEOSIS

APOTHEOSIS The milk-faced man stares on the waves thinking, "saliva," repulsed. The wind itches his embarrassing places the gulls collicky newborns, rude. Vaguely needing a urinal he ruminates bluely on the confluence of ketchup and blood recalls dreaming a coin-sized kitten named Lucian consigned to a drawer - precious and persistently missing. Cats have always made him feel safe for a second. He considers the Latin "lux," attempting interpretation, but is too distracted by pangs of br… Continue

Added by Julianza (Julie) Kim Shavin on November 19, 2008 at 12:37pm — No Comments

Black Snow

Colored Pencil "You Could Be So....If Only" by Julianza Shavin BLACK SNOW My beautiful mother, white as cream pushed the apple, a strange giant nipple towards me, and I bit. It was so sweet. They say tiny men with big heads set me on a mountaintop among wildflo… Continue

Added by Julianza (Julie) Kim Shavin on November 19, 2008 at 12:19pm — No Comments

Resurrection

RESURRECTION Now that love has unsoldered me I marvel that a man can shovel snow hunchbacked in the frigid humidity thrusting all his weight on something not a woman. Or that a woman can patiently cater to a bawling infant demanding to fed or diapered. The domestic world I coveted so and clasped like rubies has bled out and lolls anemic. Cells replicate in me like pocketed prayers; forgotten embryos of desire balloon me like cumulus. A second pubescence smirks around the kitchen corner o… Continue

Added by Julianza (Julie) Kim Shavin on November 19, 2008 at 12:00pm — 2 Comments

Abraham

Abraham Like hosannahs over Yahweh I hailed "used Yamaha!" And you said “yes yes! Just whom do I pay?” But I was just joking. having two keyboards already three would be decadence. Perhaps it was a test my trying to make of you some Abraham, to see what or whom you'd slay for me. I know it's not these things you want to purchase with passion's currency, it's me, but unfortunately I'm not for sale, and cannot be. So chase no gleaming keys kill no kings or only-sons part no seas, nor speak… Continue

Added by Julianza (Julie) Kim Shavin on November 19, 2008 at 11:58am — No Comments

Refraction

Acrylic "Shelter" by Julianza Shavin Refraction They file in, somewhat like prisoners to a bald yard engulfed in sunshine and barbed wire. There is no yard, but rather an enormous pool; they are prisoners of biology alone. Older than old, some of the women are huge thei… Continue

Added by Julianza (Julie) Kim Shavin on November 19, 2008 at 11:53am — 1 Comment

question

if one puts a photo at bottom instead of top, how can one get it off the bottom? I can't seem to edit and remove it from bottom of the poem. Thanks! Continue

Added by Julianza (Julie) Kim Shavin on November 19, 2008 at 11:47am — 1 Comment

Music Composition/Concert

Hi Folks: The fateful Nov. 15 is behind me -- aha! I managed to compose 25 pages of commissioned music to the poetry of Yousuf Zaigham (orig from India & Pakistan, but who writes in English) --- at the Classically Alive Music Salon here in Colorado Springs. We had the highest salon attendance to date. What a rush! Cindy Saunders, an incredible Julliard-trained soprano, sang the songs, Yousuf read one poem over one of the comps, and I played a solo inspired by his body of work (contained in h… Continue

Added by Julianza (Julie) Kim Shavin on November 19, 2008 at 11:35am — 1 Comment

Changeling

"Childbreak" by Julianza Shavin Changeling In the time it takes to blow my nose another child has died in Bush's wicked war. Dubya doesn't blow his nose. That whole apparatus was switched at birth for something far less messy. At that time it was decided to leav… Continue

Added by Julianza (Julie) Kim Shavin on November 19, 2008 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

Cat's Jaw

"The Eternal whY" (pen & ink is full of Y's) by Julianza Shavin With your shorn beard there went youth your face smooth and drooped as a sun-tongued pear. My hair, measured in feet rather than inches should be next, even before cancer, that crazed cretin gulpi… Continue

Added by Julianza (Julie) Kim Shavin on October 25, 2008 at 2:33am — 3 Comments

My Father's Music

My father and me, circa 1970 I am afraid of my father’s heart not of the part that marched with King or empathized with any underling not of the part that breathed magic through flutes or the parts often sullen or mute nor the wounds, the Sisyphean… Continue

Added by Julianza (Julie) Kim Shavin on October 25, 2008 at 2:30am — 1 Comment

Beauty as the Beast

Self Portrait Julianza Shavin She saw herself fall like large prey on public TV Thud, to the floor, huge hulk of pearl flesh life-giving body, Postpartum fresh, down, down by the dust-crusted piano; Supine, slack - parallel to the ivories, dumb white, d… Continue

Added by Julianza (Julie) Kim Shavin on October 25, 2008 at 1:45am — 2 Comments

Eternal Everlasting Birthday

for Amadea

Acrylic "Love at First....at Last" by Julianza Shavin This child was born a few weeks before my 46th birthday, after three miscarriages and an adoption. You are the one who lived, though it would seem the others, thwarted in their phyloge… Continue

Added by Julianza (Julie) Kim Shavin on October 25, 2008 at 1:30am — 4 Comments

The Scent of D Magenta

for Amadea: may all your dreams taste of rainbows

Photograph by Julianza Shavin Note: my daughter's name is my feminized version of Amadeus. My daughter and I lock heads at synaesthesias. She says A is a girl that is pink, obviously. I say A is a boy and… Continue

Added by Julianza (Julie) Kim Shavin on October 25, 2008 at 1:28am — 2 Comments

Heidi Seeking

Photograph by Julianza Shavin I am like that towhead curly-locked child stolen from the mountain. She walked in her sleep languished, grew pale. I too, though abandoning no wildflowers, runty goatling or flip-coined Santa-curmudgeon only an innocent could crave. Or di… Continue

Added by Julianza (Julie) Kim Shavin on October 25, 2008 at 1:17am — 2 Comments

The Color of Where

Acrylic by Julianza Shavin Where I'm from, tomatoes bloom big as silicone tits. Cuke-vines ravage the leafy tresses of blushing radish while beans ravish the trembling trellis; swollen sleek zucchinis plunder cabbagy crevices and huge-wombed yellows despoil all doubts. Al… Continue

Added by Julianza (Julie) Kim Shavin on October 24, 2008 at 11:03pm — 2 Comments

Ooze

"The Child as Brainstorm" by Julianza Shavin OOZE The knife plunges the heart something they don't tell you at the start when first you gaze at the pink new wonder who coos, gurgles, and eyes you back, dazed, as ever will be the case. The knife t… Continue

Added by Julianza (Julie) Kim Shavin on October 24, 2008 at 10:49pm — 7 Comments

Asylum

"Winter Flares" photograph of Ute Pass, digitally enhanced, by Julianza Shavin ASYLUM Is what we sought, it it not? One from widowhood The other from Something similar. Your face is all wrong For me, I mean though I said it didn't matter and actually, we both wear o… Continue

Added by Julianza (Julie) Kim Shavin on October 22, 2008 at 2:00pm — 4 Comments

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