one could

one could keep writing palinodes forever, but for me, i found an end point, or made one, and that is why it's been so long since this blog has been updated.

are there still more poems to this project? maybe not, but i'm not ready to let the book be shut completely. so while i'm working in a very different direction, i'm leaving this blog here to remember where my exit was from these palinodes, from this structure, and also to consider it the same as an entrance, which i could step again in the future, as long as the door remains open.

till then, i'll try to post any upcoming events or readings on this page also.

much love to the cyberbots

hailey

Reading Tomorrow!

I'll be doing a poetry (and maybe some other stuff) reading tomorrow night (Tuesday, January 27th) in Northern Liberties.

My good friend Abbi Dion is beginning a new reading series, and this will be the first event in the series. If you like poetry or if you just like me, please consider coming out!

When: Tuesday January 27th (TOMORROW!)
Time: 7:00 pm
Where: Wineo Bar
447 Poplar St
Philadelphia, PA 19123
(215) 925-0999

Hope to see everyone soon, friends!

love love and more love from....

hailey

The People's Poetry Call-In Show and Variety

On January 30th from 12-5pm, be prepared to listen to the greatest 5 hours of radio you will ever know. We have so much planned, including: interviews, call in poems and rants, sounds (many types), talking objects, invented scenarios, coin tosses, music, accents, extemporaneous poems, themes (many types), and a chicken timer that we will not use to humiliate you.

When: January 30th, 2009, 12-5pm
Where: AM 1650 Nexus Radio!
What: People's Poetry Call-In Show and Variety!
Who: Ish Klein and Hailey Higdon

Call us, let's make a poem together!
Rant about whatever you want!
Answer interview questions!

Palinode 33

view the future           clear it

    slash glass

And to myself I said

lu
lu
lu
lu lu
loo loo
loo loo

The cardinal that feeds on my feeder has a monogamous relationship with his partner.

Palinode 32

I am here rare rare here

hare re re

regina

sash

regional sash

something anything

nobody matters

sweet fruit sweet plum

brow bow brow bow wrinkle wring

wringer

force liquid down the hatch hood and hustle

wring robin wring robin

wringing wet extremely wet

from this much whiteness

                                                        write it down (!)

                                                        did I say it before (?) to a white background (?)

WRITTEN LAW (:)

No wonder it’s skipping the record's all fucked.

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No wonder it’s skipping the record's all fucked.

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No wonder it’s skipping the record’s all fucked.

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the collective body of teaching embodied in

my hand losing its hand-ness

                                                        I feel it tingle I feel it falling away

screw bean

SCRIPOPHILY (:)


the hobby of collecting share and bond

                                                        I have seen visual responders I have seen them
                                                        wiping their noses fixing their hair



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big field big trees big house big clouds over


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                                                          I ask for an expandable day


                       get longer

part-body

hand in one place and another another

my tut tut my tut tut to count the hours

bullbuildinghobbyhopping

gone to seed the day gone to seed the day

captain part body          expose your shoulders

lead with them

plum fruit plum sweet

tu tu to me (!)