NAPALM HEALTH SPA : REPORT 2008

 

Table of Contents

 

 

Anne Waldman

            excerpts from Martyrology

 

 

Randy Roark

            How to Compose

            Miles Davis’s First Memory

            Glenn Gould

            Lament

            Non compos mentis (no power of mind)

            Hiking the Talus Slope to Notchtop Mountain

            Walking into the Crater

 

 

Janine Pommy Vega

            Majik's Mala

            The Coal Bin Blues

            Reading Your Last Book, Fame & Death

 

 

Anonymous

            Impeach Bush and Cheney?

 

 

Wanda Coleman

SOUL EYES

            DEATH DON'T DRINK WATER

FALSE SPRING

 

 

Ananda Gayatri

            Barrio Cultural

 

 

Donna Sewell

            Kusai

            It’s Complicated

            Your Recent Visit

            Typhoon Coming

 

 

Marc Olmsted

            Good Sign

            PUMP

            KARMAPA IN AMERICA ‘08

 

 

Sharon Mesmer

            WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WOMEN OF COUNTRY VALLEY?

            THIS SLY ANUS OF MINE––a series of eight short plays

            WHEN I HEAR THE WORD “FLUXUS” I REACH FOR MY ANTI-SEMITISM

 

 

Bob Rixon

            Charlie Mosler

            Aggressor Nation

            More Bodhisattvas in a Dream

 

 

Nancy Mercado

            El Coto Laurel

            In My Perfect Puerto Rico

            Homemade Hot Sauce

Where My Father Is Buried

            Iraq 2003

I Told You

 

 

Eliot Katz

            Breath Is Like the End of Breath

            We Are Trying to Change

            Dear Senators Obama and Clinton

With Body Another Year Older

 

 

Vivian Demuth

            Virgin of the Barricades

            Addressing the Names

            Black Hole

            A Holdover

           

 

David Cope

Frail Dreams

                     As my mother lay waiting for surgery

                     Starlight Call

                     Death, you come

                     fallen

                     frail dreams

                     the black bees

                     Mask of Six Decades

                     Between Sleep & Wake

                     Her New Room

                     Mais où sont les neiges d’antan?

                     Last Look

The Empty Chair

                     Flight to Phoenix

                     In My Father’s House

                     The Empty Chair

 

 

Melissa Wray

            Elegance

            Panic

            (The condom broke.)

            (He makes his way slowly)

            About This Moment

            Sea-Tac Airport Family Restroom

 

 

Jim Cohn

            Foxy’s

            Clarity

            Air Show Day Dream

            Ode To Emmylou Harris

            Super Death

 

 

Ingrid Swanberg

            world sorrow

            girlhood

            night comes more slowly now

the soldier,

fur bearing

 

 

Dave Roskos

            Over Time Suite

 

 

Shira Segal

            100 year flood

            96: I won't wake you up, you'll have to do it on your own

 

 

Cliff Fyman

            ATLANTIC HOTEL IN LONG BEACH

            ZERO HOUR

            LINES WRITTEN IN A REMOTE AREA OF NEPAL

 

 

Wang Ping

            Winter Worm Summer Plant

 

 

Peter Marti

            Long Beach, Long Island New Year’s Day Night

            Firebreak

 

 

Akilah Oliver

            Excerpt from "The Putter's Notebook: an anti-Memoir"

 

 

Genevieve Legacy

            deathbed poem

            breath

 

 

Kevin Hayes

            The Resurrection Of My Love

 

 

Katie Yates

            chance

            intermittent

            careoftrees

other things

cardinal

 

 

Sam Abrams

            WHAT GETS REALLY HARD

 

 

Copyright © 2008 All rights reserved to the authors Napalm Health Spa is published by Museum of American Poetics Publications www.poetspath.com Jim Cohn, editor design, production by RAT Table of contents photograph courtesy of www.google.com Cover image, "Her Sweet Hand. . ." Serigraph Print by Artemior Rodriguez