.

For…

It went like a firecracker, 

a real sharp blast,

and before I knew, 

I was up from sleep …

Mais oui, dey tried to teach me

how to read back at school.

Mais book learnin’ didn’t stick wit’…

[Found Poetry]

           1

 I gave 5 or 10 million

—I forget —…

He didn’t realize

After an isolated childhood,

When he started out

To see what might be going on

Elsewhere in the world,

That there would be

A final exam…

Clifford Geertz, 1999 Charles Haskins Lecture to the American Council of Learned Relations. 

Dreamtime II.

A moment of confusion

And uncertainty of direction,

And an unlooked-for…

(A found poem ~  just for fun...)

Dawn and dusk haven't mattered differently to me since I came here.

Neither have I found the seasons tied to the arrival of kites nor to their departure.

Not even the glow of fireflies or the songs of cicadas have anchored me

in some small way to natural…

The sun had begun to set over the Tswane Hills outside Pretoria, when the Rainbow Shelter boys wound up their regular soccer match and retreated to the main block. They left behind a ball in the net of the goal posts close to the wire fence that ran between the shelter and the back street. The black and white striped ball was visible from the graffiti-sprayed warehouse across the street, where ‘drop-in’ boys…

[A Found Poem]

Every book I've read

about a campaign is that …

(A found poem)

          To account for a world

          of ideas in motion,

         …

(Found poem on the Adventures of Osa & Martin Johnson)

The Turkana were unaffected

by the giraffe-spotted flying…

Outline

In order to escape the realism of the structure


which hypostatizes systems of objective relations
…

 [Found Poem*]

The impure or unchaste

cannot touch me

without gloves;

only those who’ve known

no adultery,

or lost their chastity

after marriage;…

       [Found poem]

Abdisalem Hadthi and his son cowered

in the quiet of their living room,

at each torrent of bullets

that rained on the limestone brick

and mortar walls outside.

A unit of Gaddafi's gunmen burst…