Transcontemporation Poem for America's Greatest American Poetry Workshop

December 5, 2016 brought a crew of poets to mulled wine and green M and M's.  I drank coffee and everything else but went light on cheese and crackers. The words of poet Sampson Starkweather on transcontemporation were clearly pronouncements warmed in canned soup with red labels. I didn't want to get into it (I mean he wasn't there). Everyone had solidarity and fearlessly continued to use any word found in the English language. This helped some but not a whole lot when your poem was a translation seen through the cleashay of beveled glass. Adam Tedesco, who was there got the name, Dale Chihuly, on the first try. I was fumbling stumbling per usual (name, what is in a name?) but once the praise of MassMoca by Adam and Dawn Marar and the wearabouts of Anna Kberg was determined the AGAPW continued. I was at the Seattle sited Chihuly Garden of Glass a few weeks before and while looking at and beyond glass overhead ceilings I though, wow, what a perfect representation of the Transcontemporation Impulse, since the fractured artist beholding views were obviously multi-prompted at their various cells of academia and poetry were only a surface in the variphased bubble and, not to be slighted, not all of it. The photo below exhibits the transcontemporated space-time impulse. Part wall, part ceiling, light and unlit partings at right angles, filtered through camera lens and yes my friends effected by how tall I stand.



One of the language questions I had for the transcontemporated poem was of course the fading across space-time of the recognized idea. Words as moods mean lost possibles like an Apple commercial about lemmings or watches. It would be slap-stick to set up the old infinity in watches pose. I continue to prefer the universal.

BAILEY BRIDGE (Sir Donald Bailey   b 1901)

down in the crawl space

under the porch

  

       no cliff dwellers 

in this clime

spatiotemporally

                                      both space and temporal

     spaitum tempor

     (space-time)

look out

 portable, pre-fabricated, truss

available field consulting

                

             on bridge 

                    applications

                                           Alan Casline

                                            December 5, 2015

                                

W.W. Christman Tribute 2015, June 1, 2015 at Christman Preserve

SOAKED WOODS NEAR THE BOZENKILL


bark smells like
cold coffee grounds
my afternoon’s memories
recall a bright new day

W.W. Christman Tribute 2015

looking for a place to sit
off the path an old log
beckons

Christman Preserve

punky wood
soaked with old rain
drops of water
on the page

better write uphill
holding notebook near
vertical, makes the
target more narrow

waterfall on Bozenkill

my wide brim hat
has no such concerns

TEARING DOWN THE TRADE FAIR AFTER CLOUDBURST

Blackwater Suite: Mark W. O'Brien and Gail Allen

TEARING DOWN THE TRADE FAIR AFTER CLOUDBURST COUNCIL


along with their bedding and books being packed up, the room is filled with all those moving on but in no hurry about it.

many hands chip in for clean up.

extra food stuff is distributed

cartons of eggs named for poets who will digest them

who’ll take the two open gallons of milk?

Maril will take milk “We were going to buy some on the way home”

but won’t take the near full carton because Bob is going to be away and we only need three days worth.




Grace Panel: Judith Kerman, Helen Ruggieri, David Landrey

 

large bag of granola and small bag.

whose household has more mouths to feed gets the large bag

will someone please take the Genesee Cream Ale?

if not we may find ourselves drinking from these cans next year because I’m not drinking it.

I’ll just bring it back, a year older and no wiser.

there is a milling of poets with nearly filled backpacks at the free tables.

hoping to snatch up a last few tidbits

a small quiet deal is made about a poem and a little book to put it in

books can be put away for another day – living plants need to find a home.




apple blosssoms - here today/gone tomorrow

 



















John Roche can’t find one for the magical climbing house plant that will grow thousands of yards in

a single year and sticks to walls, windows and roof tiles cutting out sunlight and making doors inoperable.

I can’t imagine why?

he takes his plant back home with him.

the Trade Fair grounds empty only a few staying for the last clean-up.

my two corn flower plants not taken.

my plan to plant them on the grounds at field edge

Michael thinks there is room at his place and takes them ‘

they are beautiful blue flowers

they will spread like crazy that’s the only thing but they are easy to control, just pull up easily




All One Song: Michael Czarnecki and Sue Spencer

 


















I don’t know to tell him: Cornflowers are often used as an ingredient in some tea blends and herbal

teas, and is famous in the Lady Grey blend of Twinings.

I gather extra handouts.

if I get around to it, these can be added to mailings for those who might have been here.



Alan Casline

May 17, 2015
Gell Center

near Naples New York