Update - Pat and David starring in "Turkeys on Holiday"

Sunset Shed

Mom's new neighbor put up a shed blocking her view. We thought we'd spray paint a little smile on it.

Just for grins.

What a fun Thanksgiving.

Tweet

In a six degree wind chill,
the first spring robin is
huddled in the crab tree.
Tweet.

___________

Spring 2009

Judgment Day

If God created the world in six days
and rested on the seventh, how long
will Judgment Day last?

And, if on that day, sunrise starts in
your back yard, it could be over for you
well before breakfast.


_____________

DLW 11/15/09

Untitled: to a Robyn

________________

Untitled: to a Robyn


One morning I woke up in Wisconsin
and you were in New York and
the possibility of our
ever meeting again was
on the endangered species list

(going the way of
dodo birds and dinosaurs,
in the direction of
whooping cranes and whales,
becoming a possibility extinct)

I called the D.N.R.,
the High Sierra Club of the Heart,
the Audobon Society of Finer Feelings
and then I called you

and you had seen it, too
(perhaps the last existing opportunity)
flying wild and free
in a refuge between us



-- DLW 5/18/82 --

Sunday Drive

The New Day

The New Day

The light comes
softly across the body
waking it slowly, gently.

Suddenly the ego is alert
and proclaims a new day.
A speech, a parade,
a doctoral honorarium
the ego knows it has
come into its own.
All this fuss
is just for us
and a bright future
assured
for Me Me Me

The light
and the body
know
other
wise.



D.L. White

Alphabet Soup

Alphabet Soup
Conversion Kit
$9.95

you wonder
if you won't
some day be
in to a can
with your spoon
well in hand ...

you stand in a field ...
the wind blows ...
thee oats are
sowing you ...
isn't that wild?

____________

David L. White
1974

Works

Thanks to my friend George
for trying to find my poetry
on the net and telling me
he couldn't

... find it.

===================
I'm working on it.

Publications

there is no door - 1974 - Vermillion Broadcaster

Poetry Group Publication - poet, printer, publisher - 1975 - PCI
Love, Basho - 1976 - Pony Express - PCI
Ice Cream Koans - 1977 - PCI, illus. by Rhoda Grossman
Panboy - a broadside with Third Coast Press - 1977, copperplate by Rhoda Grossman

Pleasant Street and Other Poems - 1979 - BRQ - Austin
Goodbye, Delmar Blue - 1979 - BRQ - Austin
Gone Fishing - a broadside - 1979 - BRQ - Austin

Believe It! - a co-pub with Anne Edwards - 1982

PandaLoon - poet, editor, printer and publisher, with other poets, 12 issues of pocket poetry chapbooks. 1998 - 1999 - Small Potatoes Press

Poems appearing in many of 65 issues of The Knews Review, a publication of the Alphabet Zoupe Memorial Library - from 1986 to 2009.

Stir Fry - a pocketbook, best of - rehash - 2008

Lost Poems in the Knews - 2010

_________________________

Poetry by David L. White

Almost everything is out of print. Please ask anyway.
Print, as we know, is ... only one vehicle.

Frog Prince

Some there are princes

and some there are frogs

yet to be a prince

is to sit on a log

is to know you're not far

from being a frog

_________________

Pat and Claire

Pat and Claire and me out to fish fry at Benny's.

Claire's sharing a contact with Pat for Spanish interpretation.

Claire has been doing my books for over 20 years.

Thanks for dinner Claire.

Nov. 7, 2009

Pat and I had a booth at the foreign language convention for 15 years. Left four years ago. Work, but fun.

Great to pop in and visit today. Sweet sad. We did recon for a revival of adventures. Got good intel and there's ink on the drawing board again.

And then off to the Oshkosh Outlet Mall. Not a place we shop. BUT! ... We both got new bags at Wilsons Leather. Corning/Corell (sp?) a dangerous kitchen supplier - and Harry and David is so cool and ...
well .... a lovely day for a ride up Highway 45.

Happy Birthday, Burton. Have a great day.

West Wind #2- Mary Oliver

Yesterday I was sitting on the floor at Coldwater Creek while Pat tried on clothes. Great 70% off sale. Store was crowded.

There was a stack of Ten Poems to Open Your Heart by Roger Housden.

I was excited to find it and read this one aloud to Pat over near the jackets.

Click to enlarge.

Read to self.

Mmmmmm.

Or here:
http://www.panhala.net/Archive/West_Wind.html

Sort it out

Discover Your Self - Vacation Promo - Door Hanger

New Thank You design

AZML Knews Review #64

The latest issue of the print zine is out in the mail and here online.




Click to enlarge.
These pages were designed to french fold into an A2.
Now, the pages are rotated to read upright.

Alan Makes Books

Wednesday

This morning I went up to Shorewood to get a free iBook battery that someone had gotten by mistake. He thought he was getting a free PowerBook battery but, as I said, he was mistaken.

So, the guy put it back out on the group e-list.
"Who wants a free iBook battery?"
"I do. I do." I wrote back.

He invited me in and we talked a bit about Macs. We talked hardware a bit and that seemed like a dry gully. Software was a little more interesting and when we got to books we hit the gusher.

He makes books. Photo books. Apple books from iPhoto and Pages. Blurb books from .. well, Blurb.com. Hard-cover, soft-cover, color, black and white; whatever. They are gifts to friends and family.

He's taking a medieval art course at UWM and the professor likes a specific book so much that he, the professor, wants a copy permanently installed in the UMW Art History library. Something like that.

So, my guy is doing that tomorrow. Going to the library to have a book installed. Or, whatever they do with books.

Dang. Is that cool or what? He is really somebody now.

Got me all inspired. Interesting to be talking about what one does with the tool rather than the tool itself. That sparked him.

It sparks me too. What are you doing with your tools?

Got passion?

Parade

Just gave a verbal pat on the back to my 250th LinkedIn connection. I told him I was holding a parade in his honor. Thankfully, it's a super nice day out. On nice days I don't mind cleaning up after the elephants so much.

Words from seed to nectar. Sweet.
Roy Blount Jr. - Alphabet Juice.

Thank you all for the birthday wishes. It's a special day because of you.

Here: Karen Armstrong on Bill Moyers. http://ping.fm/cWhCJ

Jon Stewart hammered Jim Cramer and his network, CNBC. http://ping.fm/gfCr8

I proofed 7 LinkedIn profiles today. Thailand, Spain, Saudi Arabia and 4 Milwaukeeans. Is yours next? http://ping.fm/Wxg6d

Shipping Container Condos - http://ping.fm/SjjdB

Collapsing economies comparison - fascinating - http://ping.fm/NU4Sk

Attitude - STAT http://ping.fm/uPFXG

I'd been edging towards bucketworks.org & spreenkler.com and found a whole new home last night. Passion. Play.

Just whipped up some words for KF and the TEMPO newsletter. An emailed draft, a short conversation, add smoothing, and serve.

I'm having more conversations with people that need help with their written communications. http://ping.fm/Wxg6d

TED Ideas worth spreading. http://ping.fm/MKKXw

funny short video - http://ow.ly/lMl

Tips to boost traffic - http://ping.fm/PPHoP

Wordsmith works the streets. http://ping.fm/5nCoX

Link - R U RDY 4 SNOW? - http://ping.fm/yeutl

City of Milwaukee offers to text citizens re snow removal alerts. Sorry, no link right now.

Galaxy has 'billions of Earths'

Galaxy has 'billions of Earths' is the article title. It's just numbers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7891132.stm


"Recent work at Edinburgh University tried to quantify
how many intelligent civilisations might be out there.
The research suggested there could be thousands of them."

That's the last sentence in the article. I wonder if we're counting us among the intelligent civilisations.

DLW is waiting for a 4 p.m. phone call. It'll be short. Soon, I'll be doing something else.

Finger slicing poem http://ping.fm/aT7On

Finger slicing poem

The finger slicing was last night at dinner. The poem is fresh this morning.


Hot, fresh and ready,
rotisserie chicken,
plastic container,
finger slicer.
Damn.
Ouch.

I just finished writing a brand new classified ad for a brand new customer. Yaay. http://ping.fm/e9JTU

Will there be a Day of Judgement?

From one of my horoscopes today.

Will there be a Day of Judgement? I love the way people ask this. What do they think every day that they have ever lived through has been? What, exactly, is it that human beings do besides judge each other? We judge the past according to the standards of the present. We judge the people around us by the moral codes we have been taught to uphold. Will there ever be a 'day of non-judgement'? Now, that really would be a great day for the Earth. Maybe you can help us all get to the golden tomorrow. Be less judgemental today.

DLW is back from a networking lunch. Food was good. Need to find another place to water my horse.

We're going out dancing tonight. Home early enough for the Daily Show. More yakking tomorrow.

Finishing JoeNetworks.com meeting notes

Finishing JoeNetworks.com meeting notes - http://ping.fm/dZa75

Saturday afternoon nap

Well, we went up to the post office to drop off some bills. Pat decided we should have some chocolate, and crunchies. And then together we went after the ice cream, and soda, and nuts, and we just went nuts buying naughty stuff.

And, then, so that we didn't cram it all into our mouths at once, we went to Culver's for a 2 p.m. lunch. Time for a Saturday afternoon nap right about now.

I mean - before we eat the high fructose corn syrup.

Goog Analytics

DLW is learning google analytics.

Lines from the Inaugural Poem
http://ping.fm/FlcuT

Lines from the Inaugural Poem

A couple lines from the Inaugural Poem, "Praise Song for the Day," written and recited by Elizabeth Alexander

remind me of the ten thousand recipes and language as sustenance in Alphabet Zoupe.

What do we choose to say next?

_________________________

All about us is noise. All about us is

noise and bramble, thorn and din, each

one of our ancestors on our tongues.
.

We encounter each other in words, words spiny or smooth,

whispered or declaimed; words to consider, reconsider.
.

... In today's sharp sparkle, this winter air, anything can be made,

any sentence begun.
.

Thank you, Elizabeth,
for reminding me

of poetry.

Investigating nvu as a css editor. Videos here http://ping.fm/YHvKF

Yes, you can write our resume yourself and yes, you need someone to check it over.

We can help you through that uncomfortable getting-a-second-opinion stage.

http://ping.fm/furkG

800-642-9050 - 414-282-7185
Normal-ish business hours - Milwaukee CST

Reading: "Lawrence Lessig: Small Donors are Going on Strike: A Strike for Change" ( http://ping.fm/nhlT4 )

http://ping.fm says they're up again. So, I signed on.