Alpha & Omega, collage, March 2013.

Motherhood Anyone? Saturday 23rd March 2013, EMBARK @ EMC in Peekskill, NY

Reading, October 2012

Assured Destruction (or, Wheelabrator, Please Stop Making That Awful Noise)

the assured destruction of

her sleep, through the

pluming clouds of steam, billow white,

lofty reminder of all our offal

gone to be rent, particle-fine,

falling through mesh, rejoining

the soil

ashfields, quiet and expansive, a

patch of pale upon the earth,

sequential layers of dross and dreck,

the remains of all our refuse,

ashes to ashes and

dust we are again

and still you wake her, your insistent

whine and hum snaking across the

covers (having already crawled past the

draperies) insufficiently thick to keep

you out, playing about her head….

as if to say: get up, get up, and

finish those last tasks undone by

your blear-eyed sloth, my serried

ranks of valves and engines outrun

you always, belching steamclouds, moaning,

relentlessly, in your ears, here I am

here I am again and again

and again, my force and

fury spent into the air

wreathed round you, a noose

of noise, the pall of an embrace

gone on too long

Book of Hours

Thomas Bangsted:  Fuhrmann Junction

(He, She, and The River)

She:  So strange, the sky,
the tufts of greengrass
tipped with snow, the
blacktopped highway slickwet
and we on our way to where...
where, tell me again, for I see
all four seasons in the one day
and it unsettles me.

He: We'll see, we'll see where
the next turning takes us; I
don't like the look of that
sky.

She: The street lights, sentinels,
overhang the road, slim,
alien, their heavy heads
crooked over the blankness,
illuminating the way, bulbs
of milky fluorescence graceful,
prepared, on their thin stems,
flowers of industry, to brighten the
path of the factory worker
once on his way to a second
shift, humming his Polish folksongs,
the rhythm of machinery his too.

The River: See how I swell and billow?
It has come to this, that I
break all boundaries; you
neglected me, now I assail
you, the land has been
cleared out, you all seek
the safety of higher ground.
No matter. Wherever you are
I shall reach you in time.  I
am patient, my silence
grown to a roar,

He:  Still, we can see the sun
straining to penetrate these
clouds, remember the familiar
marking of our hours ticking past,
the shadows long upon
the ground, burning away
fog

The flowers, too, engendered from
the earth, marked down in
our book of hours--they are
no more

She:  Did I lock the door?  Did I leave
the kettle on the boil?  I
can't remember, and my tulips,
what will become of them?  (Planted,
as they were, in careful circles: fleshpink,
goldyellow, bloodred.)  No matter, now, I
suppose.  Let us see what is
beyond the next turning.

He:  So many times we saw that
sign in better days, off to
sail for a day, the celebration
of a Christening, heading north
for a holiday, and now, where?
We have no charted path,
but still must carry on until
the end.

The River:  Simple humans, to
think you can escape my
grasp--even now I approach.

He and She:  With our hands joined we go
forward always, no glancing
backward at past faults, the
thin geologies broken down to furnish
gravel for a garden, the
stripping of the soil, the
fields which should have been
left to lie fallow--these smart, now,
spurring us on to find that
final, unspoiled place

"WORDS THAT PAINT" at the HVCCA in Peekskill, NY! -- Tickets still available!!!

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WORDS THAT PAINT: THE NEW HUDSON VALLEY SCHOOL IN POETRY AND PROSE at the HVCCA in Peekskill, NY

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Words That Paint: The Hudson Valley School in Poetry and Prose, at HVCCA in Peekskill, NY, 14th, 16th, and 17th February

Looking forward to reading my poem "Book of Hours" -- as a representative of EMBARK/Peekskill, at "Words That Paint: The Hudson Valley School in Poetry and Prose"

At HVCCA........

Thursday 14th February, 7:00 p.m.
Saturday 16th February, 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.
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Furhmann Junction, 2007    Thomas Bangsted

First Show of 2013!!!! The Bean Runner Poetry Project!!!! Thursday 3rd January 2013!!!!

First show of 2013......

The Bean Runner Poetry Project

at The Bean Runner Cafe, 201 S. Division Street, Peekskill, New York

A SNOWY NIGHT IN PEEKSKILL - DANCE PERFORMANCE AT EMBARK @ EMC to BENEFIT FRED'S PANTRY!!!

SAVE THE DATE!!

Saturday 22nd December 2012

A Dance Performance to benefit Fred's Pantry