vampire on the moon

New poems at Housefire and Noo Journal

2011-11-27T13:54:00.000-08:00

I've got a new poem up at Housefire, loosely based on the Guided by Voices song, Goldheart Mountain top Queen Directory, many thanx to the most excellent Mo B. Read it here.

Also the wonderful Ani Smith has edited the latest issue of Noo weekly over at Noo Journal and has included a couple of my poems. Thx Ani, you're the greatest. Read them here.

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Reading with Todd Colby at IBID Projects, London

2011-10-20T09:59:00.000-07:00

Poets in striped t-shirts

Todd reading his pieces from My Name is Mud issue one with artist Marianne Vitale

Adam J Maynard reading from Bong Poems

Listeners

I did a reading at IBID Projects London with the new York poet, Todd Colby as an event for artist Marianne Vitale's new show, Too Much Satan For One Hand. Todd was an absolute gentleman and it was a real pleasure to meet him and his friends. We had a real blast.

2011-09-24T14:02:00.000-07:00

New Poems at Witch is Dorothy

2011-09-24T12:56:00.000-07:00

Here are my jams from Witch is Dorothy. Great poets like K. Silem Mohammad and Sarah Cunningham are in it. Read them here

Black Dogs Art Show

2011-09-24T12:37:00.000-07:00

Err, I'm in this art show. It's in Leeds, seems pretty schweet. Read about it here

New Poems at Red Lightbulbs

2011-09-01T02:33:00.000-07:00

I have seven new poems in the awesome new issue of Red Lightbulbs, read 'em here

Exhibition in Norway

2011-07-30T05:19:00.000-07:00

I have an exhibition of paintings, photographs and drawings in Gvarv, Norway as artist in residence at the Kart Festival. The exhibition will take place at the Kunstnerhuset, Gvarv and will run from 18-21st August.

New poems at New Wave Vomit

2011-07-05T02:14:00.000-07:00

I have five new poems up at New Wave Vomit. Thanx a lot Ana. C, you kick a$$

read 'em and weep, here

Two poems at Witch is Dorothy

2011-06-23T01:52:00.000-07:00

I have two poems in issue two of Witch is Dorothy a new magazine out of Ashland Oregon. Other inhabitants include: Jamey Strathman, Hannah Darling, Michael Duffy, Eric Coney, K.Silem Mohammad, Zach Kennedy, Heather Frink, Megan Janssen, Emily Sherlock and Sarah Cunningham.

This title is available at the My Name is Mud poetry shelf at Modern Art Oxford or here:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/WitchIsDorothy

It's hard to get, but it does kick a$$

Been Listening

2011-06-23T01:46:00.000-07:00

Ducktails Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics (Woodsist)

Sun City Girls Napoleon and Josephine (Abduction)

Ciccone Youth The Whitey Album (Geffen)

Ariel Pink Scared Famous (Human Ear Music)

Nite Jewell Good Evening (No Pain in Pop)

Beethoven Poem

2011-05-30T12:37:00.000-07:00

There’s a hazy kind of light
Up in the mountains at this time of year
A man in a bunny suit stands
Before a burned out Cadillac
Beethoven is sitting next to a giant ant
In an open topped Cadillac
People are pouring fruit smoothies
Over a gorilla in a cage
And spray painting it different neon colours
The ant and Beethoven pull out their Uzi’s
And start spraying everything in sight
They spray the gorilla
They spray the guy in the bunny suit
The gorilla explodes inside the cage
Beethoven and the ant are crying
Beethoven wipes Beethoven’s eyes
Sad noises vibrate between Beethoven’s lips
The ant laughs a bit
And opens a bottle of beer

Lately

2011-05-06T01:41:00.000-07:00

My Name is Mud Books launch party at Modern Art Oxford

2011-03-15T03:10:00.001-07:00

From top:

A dance to the music of Sun City Girls

Ani Smith reading, Cassandra Troyan reading

Adam J Maynard reading

With Yoda and The Mbira players

This turned out to be a really great night.
Thanx Ani, Thanx Cassandra, Thanx Mary, Thanx Roland,
Thanx Lou, Thanx Mbira players, Thanx Simon, Thanx Will, Thanx Yoda

Photographs: Nick Maynard

Films edited by Will Cunningham at FLIX-1202

Hopefully there'll be more stuff like this in the future!

Now available from My Name is Mud Books

2011-03-15T02:19:00.000-07:00

The first two titles from My Name is Mud Books now available here

New Poems at West Wind Review

2011-02-11T15:12:00.000-08:00

I have a couple of poems in the awesome new issue of West Wind Review. Check it out here

featuring Chris Alexander, Shane Allison, Brian Ang, Joe Atkins, derek beaulieu, Steve Benson, Gregory Betts, Mark Boccard, Sommer Browning, Edmond Caldwell, Dereck Clemons, Bryan Coffelt, Shanna Compton, Alan Davies, Luke Degnan, Tiffany Denman, Buck Downs, Patrick Durgin, kevin mcpherson eckhoff, Micah Freeman, Kristen Gallagher, Drew Gardner, Angela Genusa, Nada Gordon, Plynn Gutman, Nadxieli Nieto Hall, Mike Hauser, Emily Hockaday, Janis Butler Holm, Paul Hoover, Uyen Hua, Jake Kennedy, Rodney Koeneke, David Lau, Emily Liebowitz, Jonathan Lohr, Travis Macdonald, Alana Madison, Adam J Maynard, Rebecca Mertz, Sharon Mesmer, Monica Mody, Adam Moorad, Rosiere Moseley, Christian Nagler, Chris Nealon, Jessea Perry, Adam Roberts, Steve Roggenbuck, Andrew Sage, Estee Schwartz, James Sherry, Josh Stanley, Erin Steinke, Christina Strong, Cole Tucker-Walton, Joshua Ware, Jeanine Webb, Elisabeth Workman, Timothy Yu, and Carolyn Zaikowski.

Editor: Sarah Cunningham
Faculty Editor: K. Silem Mohammad

My Name is Mud Books Launch Party

2011-01-29T11:31:00.000-08:00

Modern Art Oxford will be hosting a Book launch and party for Issue One of My Name is Mud and Green, poems by Adam J Maynard. 7-9pm Saturday 5th February 2011

Featuring readings from:

Ani Smith
Cassandra Troyan
Adam J Maynard

Also there will be films of various authors from the issue reading their stuff and stuff

and a dance to the music of Sun City Girls

And Mbira music from Zimbabwe

and booze and other shit

plus Dj Simon Wright (Scratch Nights) playing Ariel Pink, freak folk whatever etc...

plus a special guest appearance from Yoda

and you'll be able to buy the book, plus it's free to get in!!

be there if yr in Oxford

more info here

order the books here

Authors in issue one:

Kendra Grant Malone, Daniel Bailey , Adam J Maynard, Maurice Burford
TR Deeks, Sabra Embury, Brandon Scott Gorell, Prathna Lor, Todd Colby
Paige Taggart, Joseph Goosey, K. Silem Mohammad,Cassandra Troyan
Hickory Assbags

Thanxxx!!!

Ani Smith interviewed me for We Who Are About To Die

2010-12-21T04:47:00.000-08:00

Writer Ani Smith very kindly interviewed me for the lit site We Who Are About To Die

read the results: here

Now available to order at My Name is Mud!

2010-12-04T09:05:00.001-08:00

My Name is Mud Short Fiction / Poetry Issue 0ne

92pp Text with b/w images, perfect bound featuring:

Kendra Grant Malone, Daniel Bailey , Adam J Maynard, Maurice Burford
TR Deeks, Sabra Embury, Brandon Scott Gorell, Prathna Lor, Todd Colby
Paige Taggart, Joseph Goosey, K. Silem Mohammad,Cassandra Troyan
Hickory Assbags

$15.95 (includes shipping and handling)

Green, a book of poems by Adam J Maynard

81pp Text with b/w images, perfect bound

In his first collection of poetry Green, Adam J Maynard is the Grand Marshall of a beautiful parade, swinging the baton as he takes us through a kaleidoscopic realm that is our cultural memory, our obsessions, our emotional uncertainties, our love. This book is dripping with poems that are as lucid as they are baffling. I couldn't help but follow Maynard through the streets of Green, beating my drum in tune to the band, wondering where I was, excited about where I would go.

- Daniel Bailey, author of East Central Indiana and The Drunk Sonnets

I've always been jealous of synesthetes, but after reading Green, I now know I should never have been jealous of them. From now on I will respond to the synesthetes with great fear and I will walk lightly around them, so as not to disturb their thoughtfulness. Adam J Maynard's new collection of photos and poem's are sure to infect the parts of your brain that were meant to work independently and completely reorder your sense of the world.

- Kendra Grant Malone, author of Everything Is Quiet

Adam J Maynard's poems are packed with the particulars of everyday life; brimming with a playfully sinister joy in the new now. Full of flip-flops, Slayer t-shirts, and Kung Fu, his poems navigate the modern landscape with a refined poetic sensibility that is equal parts fearless and sophisticated as it is hilarious and surreal. The publication of Green is a real cause for celebration.

- Todd Colby, author of Riot In The Charm Factory and Tremble and Shine

Adam J Maynard's Green is really a form of the blues. These absurdist little anti-ballads appear on the surface to be awkwardly tuneless and banal, but they catch you with plaintive hooks that almost don't register until they've punctured your lip. Maynard's cadences, for all their deliberate clunkiness, are soulful and melancholy in a way that escapes maudlin cliche or forced sincerity. Earworms that at first seem blank and silly burrow their way into your "sleepy cartoon mind" and lay eggs there that hatch into "greenish ghosts" which "float up through the floor / And get free, out in the light, in the wind." This book is tight.

- K Silem Mohammad, author of Deer Head Nation, Breathalyzer and The Front

$15.95 (includes shipping and handling)

order it here

Coming soon from My Name is Mud Books

2010-10-23T14:16:00.000-07:00

Hogwarts (ii)

2010-09-22T13:44:00.000-07:00

2010-09-22T13:38:00.000-07:00

A coupla things worth reading

2010-08-17T02:36:00.000-07:00

Kendra Grant Malone, chasing pigeons makes me feel more powerful here

Matthew Savoca, field mice here

Ladybird (ii)

2010-08-16T03:57:00.000-07:00

A massive ladybird on the moon
Talks on a pink mobile phone
'I have seen the fantastic, lonely eyes
Of the salmon in the rapids' it says

'There is something about lettuce laying season
That I really love'

Be careful though, not to get
Yourself spread everywhere
Remember the Sharks that rattle in the rain.
Be careful, or you could end up
Like a magazine rack without any magazines

A gorilla stands outside the window
Pointing a bazooka at me
But I’m too busy talking
With the massive ladybird on the moon
Looking at my reflection in the window

It rains a lot in here
I live in a cardboard box
With a massive ladybird
It uses a horrifically expensive
Limited edition Chanel phone
It keeps screaming and crying all the time

Saying that it knows all about the gloom
I'm supposedly made out of

2010-08-11T03:55:00.000-07:00

2010-06-23T14:17:00.000-07:00

Forthcoming at My Name is Mud Books

2010-05-16T12:09:00.000-07:00

2010-04-26T13:27:00.000-07:00

West Wind Review and Kill Author

2010-04-17T01:55:00.000-07:00

I have four poems in the new West Wind Review.

It also has these great people within its pages:

Shane Allison, Brian Ang, Nathan Austin, Elizabeth Bachinsky, Daniel Bailey, Dave Barrett, Franklin Bruno, Marie Buck, Clint Burnham, Dereck Clemons, Jordan Davis, Nick Demske, Tiffany Denman, Brittany Dennison, Christopher DeWeese, Andrew Dieck, Brandon Downing, Cathy Eisenhower, Laura Elrick, Phil Estes, Michael Farrell, Angela Genusa, Judith Goldman, Jack Granath, Rob Halpern, Morgan Harlow, Uyen Hua, Katryn Hurtado, Genevieve Kaplan, Nicholas Karavatos, William Knight, D Sprung Kurilecz, Reb Livingston, Adrian C. Louis, Donato Mancini, Adam J Maynard, Philip Metres, Carol Mirakove, Christopher Mulrooney, Sara Mumolo, Sawako Nakayasu, Lance Newman, Amy Ng, Douglas Piccinnini, Ernesto Priego, Jessy Randall, Nicholas Michael Ravnikar, G. David Schwartz, Marcus Slease, Dawn Sueoka, Andrew Terhune, Wendy Trevino, Anna Vitale, James Wagner, and Grzegorz Wróblewski (trans. Adam Zdrodowski)

Editor: Greta Mikkelsen Faculty Editor: K. Silem Mohammad 229 pp.

Get it here

I also have four poems up at the excelent new 'Donald Barthelme' issue of Kill Author which you can read here

Sorry responses to My Name is Mud have been slow. I have been really f*****king bizzy etc..

Green by Adam J Maynard and isssue one of My Name is Mud are currently in pipeline

I'm watching two bees drinking a bottle of champagne and the sun is dribbling thru the windows. Thanxxx

New My Name is Mud

2010-01-27T01:11:00.000-08:00

Finally, there's a new issue of My Name is Mud up, featuring contributions from:

Chelsea Martin
Todd Colby
David Peak
DJ Berndt
Greg Santos
Sabra Embury
Gregory Lawless
Jessy Randall
Miles Ross
Zach Buschler

Read it here

Enjoy it, comment about it.

Thanks to the contributors

Thanx to Mike.S for tech assist.

Butterfly on a Baby's Head

2010-01-03T10:53:00.001-08:00

Earlier this morning
I felt like a troll sweating in an apartment
A tube of double action lip filler
Floating on a sea of cartoons
And casually my face was vibrating
As I came up the front steps
And I noticed that the house was eating a pizza
I felt like a butterfly on baby's head
As the cartoon pines heavy with snow
Leaned in towards me
And the sky was bright pink
As I continued the search for my face

2010-01-03T10:48:00.000-08:00

Doing nu stuff

2009-12-28T09:59:00.000-08:00

Currently nibbling on some nice stuff including:

Heather Christle, The Difficult Farm
Daniel Bailey, The Drunk Sonnets
Ciccone Youth, The Whitey Album
Dan Deacon, Spiderman of the Rings
Why? Elephant's Eyelash

For what it's worth.

Yeah, also started to put together a poetry manuscript. This is what it's called:

Bingo Leopards (1945-when?)

I'm bringing out a chapbook called Green at My Name is Mud Books

Hope everybody's happy etc.

I feel like an orange sports car

Double dick drummer

2009-12-14T03:40:00.000-08:00

I have some poems forthcoming at these print journals: Pangur Ban Party, West Wind Review and Read Some Words. Seems sweet bruvvvvv.

2009-11-23T01:56:00.000-08:00

My Name is Mud books

2009-10-29T06:47:00.000-07:00

Hey, we're branching out in to print. Check out some details about it here

Yeah!

2009-10-25T07:28:00.001-07:00

Praying Mantis Poem

2009-10-24T03:10:00.001-07:00

In the town centre, there’s a gig
A praying mantis is playing an electric guitar
He’s singing in to a little microphone
And after, maybe he’ll even try and eat it
A monster dances on the corner of the street
Several hardcore men in Muppet suits
Are coming down the hill
Pretending everything is fun is fun

2009-10-24T03:05:00.001-07:00

Poem at Ink Node

2009-09-30T11:43:00.000-07:00

I have a poem up at Ink Node, guest edited by Maurice Burford. Read it here

2009-09-27T01:31:00.000-07:00

2009-09-20T03:25:00.000-07:00

Inspector Morse and Thom Yorke are riding down Broad Street on a unicorn. Apparently they are on their way to The Turf Tavern to get a pint of Village Idiot.

Spooky Boyfriend

2009-09-20T02:10:00.000-07:00

There's a new Spooky Boyfriend up with some really nice stuff in it. Spooky Boyfriend is one of my faves. Nate and I seem to have similar tastes. I think we should collaborate on a perfect bound print thing called My Spooky Boyfriends' name is Mud. Something like that could be a good idea. Link on the right, can't be bummed to do another one.

2009-09-20T02:03:00.000-07:00

Velasquez

2009-09-20T01:59:00.000-07:00

A ghost cries out in the long grass
It’s not important to think like a hammer
Or a chipmunk in pink stilettos
I'm not really a pirate
I grew tired of the booze journey
Of the carrot laughing in the corner
Of looking at all the yellow motorbikes in my glass

Question

2009-09-19T11:13:00.000-07:00

Is it true that Lars Von Trier pissed on Harmony Korine when he first met him?

Happy Daze (The Sequel) at Pangur Ban Party

2009-08-15T00:53:00.001-07:00

Read it here

Uncanny Likeness

2009-07-13T10:13:00.000-07:00

I'm in a group exhibition at OVADA Gallery, Oxford called Uncanny Likeness:New Perspectives On Contemporary Portraiture. The other artists in the show are, Emma Cousin, Olivia Franklin, Peter Monkman and Gideon Pain. They are nice people. The show runs from 11th July-22nd August 2009.

Here's some evidence of my piece: I Just Need Some Time Off To Eat Ice-Cream And Look At Rainbows.

(click on images to enlarge)

e-book at Pangur Ban Party

2009-06-30T12:54:00.000-07:00

I have an e-book called Happy Daze (The Sequel) up at Pangur Ban Party, read it here.

Safe Toilet Syndrome

2009-06-14T02:26:00.000-07:00

Read Safe Toilet Syndrome by Prathna Lor at Bearcreekfeed (link on right). It's an excellent e-book, warm and sleazy with great illustrations by Jeffrey Heart.

Vitamins

2009-06-09T03:19:00.000-07:00

In your air trousers
On a tired day like this
Taking a pink shit
Your desires are a secret pain
Washing Walt Disney
As I come around the corner
I see that you’re lost in a cloud
Of ramshackle happiness
And your fury is so perfect
Taking orange vitamin pills
And looking deep
In the morning mirror

2009-06-09T03:08:00.000-07:00

2009-05-27T10:23:00.000-07:00

Right After The Ball in The Moonlight

2009-05-27T10:18:00.000-07:00

Mel Gibson and Elton John have crystal faces
They stand silently in the moonlight,
A gorilla comes up and smashes Mel Gibson’s
Crystal face on the floor
A stagecoach pulled by Unicorns passes
Elton John laughs a little bit

Seeing

2009-05-19T04:16:00.000-07:00

You see your Disney face in the mirror
Keep seeing elves and mummy in green
You just saw me outside me you said
I just saw a fly in a Benetton jumper
And a dog with a beautiful tulip head,
I see your sunshine fingers smiling

New writing at My Name is Mud

2009-05-10T01:50:00.000-07:00

The new issue of My Name is Mud is up, read it here. Many thanks to the participating writers:

Maurice Burford
Christie Ann Reynolds
Sean Patrick Hill
JA Tyler
Donald Illich
Krammer Abrahams
Sasha Fletcher
Daniel Bailey
Brandon Barrett
Donald Dunbar
Shane Allison
Drew Kalbach

Physics

2009-05-01T03:26:00.000-07:00

It’s a great big night outside
And I’m watching my neighbour
Polishing a dinosaur in the driveway

I understand him well,
His physics turning in to nothing
In a small mountain town like this

Tripping through the past
Champagne fizzing in his teeth
A little lonely inside this air

Looking at a giant frog in a top hat

Under the cold light of the moon
He’s being attacked by chimpanzees

Knowing that the lights come and go
And they do

Thunk Interview

2009-04-24T01:46:00.000-07:00

Ryan Manning interviewed me for Thunk, read it here

Blooming

2009-03-14T02:01:00.000-07:00

A tiny man is climbing my bookshelf
In the garden I see a ladybird
Smoking a cigarette, staring at the sun,

There are some pirates in a diner,
With bright sun thrown on the table
Laughing, fiddling with cups and fingers

Two people in bunny costumes blow bubbles
In the cold grey air which is a mystery

Now I see a tiny vapour horse
Blooming on my window sill

2009-03-14T01:54:00.000-07:00

2009-03-05T02:32:00.000-08:00

Neon

2009-03-05T02:23:00.000-08:00

An elf in crotch less panties
Sitting on a giant blueberry

A beautiful secretary in the doorway
Holding a yellow tulip,
She’s weeping

A man in a neon pink t-shirt
Holds two Honeydew Melons

She feels like a shiny red apple
With Magic Marker all over its face
So she says

Like a gorilla wearing lipstick
And chandelier ear rings

I feel like a chandelier
A yellow triangle

You went back to being a nightmare
Clouds smiling,
Brushing their hair

Me and you

With Magic Marker
All over our faces

New My Name is Mud Soon

2009-02-03T08:42:00.000-08:00

New work by these very lovely people will be appearing at MNIM, soonish :

Drew Kalbach, Shane Allison, Brandon Barrett, Sean Patrick Hill, Maurice 'Alex' Burford, Christine Ann Reynolds, J.A.Tyler, Donald Illich, Krammer Abrahams, Sasha Fletcher and Donald Dunbar

I am both slow and busy. It is hard getting around in these heels, trust me.

Oh, to be like 12 again or something

2009-02-03T08:36:00.000-08:00

Harrison Ford on a Llama

2009-02-03T08:30:00.000-08:00

I just saw Harrisson Ford riding a Llama. He was eating an avocado and was wearing a pair of sparkling high heels. He looked kind of unhappy.

Yippee

2009-01-08T04:31:00.000-08:00

I have some stuff in the new Yippee magazine, yup!

Ellen Kennedy

2009-01-07T02:43:00.000-08:00

Really enjoyed reading Ellen Kennedy's Yesterday I was Talking to Myself at Bear Parade. I'm not sure why I never read it before. I look forward to the book.

Plus, I saw my neighbour eating a star yesturday. I assume it was a celebration. Happy New Year!

The corduroy Mtn.

2009-01-07T02:25:00.000-08:00

The first print issue of The Corduroy Mtn. is out now from Greying Ghost press featuring work by:

Peter Berghoef, Shane Jones, Brooklyn Copeland, Forest Roth, Blake Butler, Mandy Billings, Brandon Shimoda, Sommer Browning, Adam Maynard, Joshua Ware, Drew Kalbach, B.J. Love, Kevin Wilson, Kendra Malone, Jac Jemc, Eric Amling, and James Iredell

Frogs

2008-12-10T12:21:00.000-08:00

I'm currently writing about frogs. I'm getting lots of good submissions for My Name is Mud. Thom Yorke was wearing a big yellow Puffa coat the other day.

Go and read Terry Deek's story The Chainsaw Battles at MNIM. Read about Cock Out and his favourite chainsaw Grim Reaper II.

Just Ordered Sheila Heti Middle Stories and Tender Buttons, Gertrude Stein.

Listening: Rickets and Scurvy by David Grubbs (fat Cat Records)

2008-12-10T12:17:00.000-08:00

Wasted Around a Bit

2008-12-02T04:56:00.000-08:00

I have pretty much successfully disappeared
Sitting here, stuffing my face with Rocky Mountain Oysters
Watching a guy in a bunny suit playing a green drum set
Somehow I’ve got all the magic wrong,
I don’t know what my house is, the air is very changed
There’s a giant squid stuffed in to my suitcase
The air is changed, it sparkles and I just want to be a pirate
I am disappearing, watching the birds outside of me
The magic is wrong when my face is full of Rocky Mountain Oysters
What is a house anyway?
And how is this day gliding along?

Yoda

2008-11-30T09:56:00.000-08:00

I was just sucking Yoda's green hairy toes when I really should've been doing something else

2008-11-11T08:07:00.000-08:00

East Central Indiana

2008-11-11T03:57:00.000-08:00

I read East Central Indiana by Daniel Bailey. It blew my mind, it felt like 'art', it felt new, it was a new kind of experience both joyful and sorrowful. It should be published as a book. It's the kind of thing I'll go back and read again.

Raincloud

2008-11-01T02:09:00.000-07:00

I can touch a raincloud
The rainclouds live at the top of the mountain
All the clouds are pissed off with me
Mumbling like cucumbers
Or Italian bees
Talking flowers with squidgy faces
A bee playing a guitar
Swimming through the air
Ashamed in the slow hours
A paper cloud passing
A super severe light

Yum Yum/ Terry Deeks

2008-10-30T03:19:00.000-07:00

Sam Pink sent me Yum-Yum I can't wait to die. It's lovely and when I'm reading it, it feels like a giant marble statue is weeing on me, or as if I have been eating hornets for breakfast. Also Terry Deeks just sent me a story about a loony who collects chainsaws which are all engraved with skulls and shit and have names like 'The Grinder'. It's also pretty delectable and will appear soon at My Name is Mud alongside another of his confections. I still can't quite fathom why some publisher hasn't rolled over and pulled it's butt cheeks apart to publish one of Terry's books, ah well.

Many congratulations to Blake Butler, Shane Jones and Brandon Scott Gorrell on getting their manuscripts accepted etc.

Mountain

2008-10-23T02:52:00.000-07:00

That mountain has a nice ass of pinecone blue
Silver bees buzz around the lemon elephant sheets
Bright blue sky, bright green rain
Happy pixies in green times, Coca-Cola trolls
Silver bees in the thin cool darkness
Pinecone blue light up in the mountains
Bright smiles in the mountains
A monkey in a speedboat
In the green rain, in the mountains
Bees buzz in the thin shafts of silvery light
They suddenly shoot through your garage
Only droning very faintly, being quite quiet
And the mountains are breathing,
They’re being very good

New work coming soon at My Name is Mud

2008-10-23T02:33:00.000-07:00

New writing from Kendra Grant Malone, Chris Mc Sween, Brandon Scott Gorrell, Colin Basset, Brandi Wells, Alex Rettie, Mike Sikkema and Terry Deeks will be appearing at MNIM soon.

Yellow

2008-09-18T07:03:00.000-07:00

Full of dragging ideas, like clouds
Yoda weeps in the tin locker room
Like you, he can’t make any moves

Snow White is in the car park
Peering through a greasy window
Watching crack heads eating Weiner Schnitzels

Dreadful pop bands are taking over the world
Dracula has grown a moustache
Torsos of the departed quietly float through rooms

There’s nothing better than a bee on a pink flower

This morning a bottle of bright yellow shampoo
Actually told me to ‘Get with the programme’

DFW

2008-09-14T12:30:00.000-07:00

Goodbye David Foster Wallace and thanks for all those great stories.

Shane Jones's Hairy Hands

2008-09-13T00:51:00.000-07:00

Reading Shane Jones's Hairy Hands (Greying Ghost) was most enjoyable. It was like looking at a freshly painted windowsill or something.

Animals

2008-09-13T00:42:00.000-07:00

Frankfurters listen to music
Blinking in the bright light
There is a photograph of time,
Wearing nothing but a leather mask

She laughed at me
I was in a rabbit costume,
At a birthday party
Hundreds of small animals
On bicycles rode by

Later, a white cat
Played a silver guitar
On the streets
In the slow grey rain

Outside the Chinese supermarket
He played for his fantastic audience

Pink Cloud Boy

2008-09-13T00:37:00.000-07:00

Bud

2008-08-30T03:58:00.000-07:00

A tall bearded man in a tight green satin dress
Stands in front of the U.S. flag drinking Budweiser
I can’t speak for him, but I feel like I am trying,
There is a horse in my bath tub for instance
The night smiles sarcastically when it finally arrives
Wherever you go, there will be no love or too much
I know that’s no match for the things you know
The man in the green dress is grinning from ear to ear

Not Yet Quite Again

2008-08-30T03:55:00.000-07:00

Lately

2008-08-15T15:18:00.000-07:00

Lately the work of Matthew Rohrer and Wallace Stevens have been making time disappear.

2008-08-15T15:10:00.000-07:00

The Corduroy Mtn.

2008-08-14T07:43:00.000-07:00

I have a poem forthcoming in The Corduroy Mtn.

Matterhorn

2008-08-14T07:40:00.000-07:00

Your said

2008-08-14T07:32:00.000-07:00

Anteater said hello once
When I was drunk at some bar,
When the Sun smashed
Through the window then
You always tried to say ‘I don’t know’
Over and over, all the time
Hours and minutes ago
Happy dragons roll on the floor

My Name Is Mud/new writing

2008-07-12T01:06:00.000-07:00

Hey, finally new stuff is up at My Name is Mud. Short stories by Prathna Lor, Matthew Savoca, Shane Jones and poetry from Paige Taggart and G.David Schwartz. Make the little journey there and enjoy it etc...

Spooky Boyfriend

2008-07-11T03:22:00.000-07:00

I have a little thing called Future up at Spooky Boyfriend. There is some nice stuff there.

No Posit/Alice Notley

2008-06-29T06:41:00.000-07:00

The people at No Posit are publishing a couple of my pieces which is good. I'm enjoying Alice Notley at ve mo. Margaret and Dusty in bed on a Sunday morning and a big red cup of coffee.

Next pair of shoes

2008-06-29T06:36:00.000-07:00

Forgot

2008-06-10T12:45:00.000-07:00

I just forgot to tell you, but another one of my things is set to appear at Spooky Boyfriend soon. Plus, I hope to be moving my slothful behind towards putting new stuff up at My Name is Mud. There is a bucketload of lovely writings from people like Prathna Lor, Shane Jones, Matthew Savoca and Paige Taggart and actually more than that actually. It should be.

Lamination Colony

2008-06-10T12:18:00.000-07:00

Err, I have a new thing called Anyway up at Lamination Colony. Lamination colony is a very nice place to be, or a good place to be lost. Enjoy it. I'm off to eat an orange steak and have some Gremlin fun.

List

2008-04-30T12:43:00.000-07:00

Three eggs in a limousine

Harpsichord rain

Lonely tanks

Octopus boxes

Horse in a cadillac

chocolate frankfurter

shoes shouting

leather Superman

Day

2008-04-26T01:49:00.000-07:00

Still sleeping
But was up all night walking around
The raspberry was talking to me
Then they say 'Is that it?'
I stutter, I say 'of course'
But last night the floor was littered with faces
A green star played an electric guitar
I moved around inside the day
Watching weird slants of time disappearing
As a dog in an orange plastic canoe
Slipped away down the druggy river

Dad

2008-04-23T13:18:00.000-07:00

Mom

2008-04-23T13:10:00.000-07:00

MC Hammer in the park today

2008-04-17T11:41:00.000-07:00

MC Hammer was standing by the lake in the park today.

The sun was shining which made the water shimmer and his gold trousers glimmer in the sunlight. The hot dog he was eating, well let's just say that a lot of tomato sauce was squeezing out of the side of it and falling on to the hot tarmac.

He was weeping solemnly. Then he got on his trike and rode off. The sky seemed horribly menacing again. A man in a smurf costume sailed past. He really felt as if he could not stop his uncontrollable weeping