textimagepoem: 2/24/08

mail art call from Beatrix Reinhardt

Mail Art Project; theme: Island
We invite artists to submit work for a mail art project that will be exhibited from April 6-12, 2008. The theme for the exhibition is “island”. All interpretations of the concept island are welcomed. Submissions have to be postcards of any size or shape as long as they can be send through the US postal services or the post office in the country of origin. They must have traveled through the post! If you wanted to do a series over a number of days that would be great. Any techniques or media are welcome. We accept submission from April 1 – April 12, 2008.
Please send work to:
Mail Art/B. Reinhardt/T. Jones
PCA 1P-209
College of Staten Island/CUNY
2800 Victory Boulevard
Staten Island, New York 1031

John M. Bennett

Finitudna

fur Nicolas Carras

fninit dremb uhn craep
craeb chot slad strorking
livret ent stop chat
cod nep leg ending
jorka flâme gnat polt
mudt boue lip dlent

Andutinif

ruf Salocin Sarrac

peerc nhu bmerd tininf
gnikrorts dals tohc baerc
tahc pots tne tervil
gnidne gel pen doc
tlop tang emâlf akroj
tneld pil evob tdum

John M. Bennett

Naege

slemb duh nap craem ,ploon nort
:chimb hlamper ,greest neglo anna plundt

chiver soomb ,int flund ,craeb sed
:nah tambler flogo ent ,pleest kem

eem nuh dremp ahb nuh plondor
:seb mrant bunh stebba shent ip

:clob mor ,blenda trub dent ,sreeb
kendge duhn nabpe srud ,bledda ton

:flenk haembP ,usda plon ,nabmp et
pludna seng fuh dreggor cuemb ot

:dreedge ,glenk ,trod ,mlent ,pundt ,cragk
,dormb nuh cheddo sned muh haemb

Hoablo

:gront glamb bedda spmempt hub dont
,flegan soob ,nur pornt tublo blent

:ogda haem mornt yute ,hab srent
,trad nuh Srunt tebndt jenko dimbt

:yend nuh caev ,nodt shloe mlist
,embd yunh cornk cheddo sreb sando

floont debla ,crunt cham ,adna smed
:eedge nur clraem empt yeep strunt

flnor grash plonda ,drave uhn mlint
:dreb ahn jemblor ploon ,bedger clamb

sraeb nuh cangdo bleent soump cudge
:ahnts ,lagks ,trorns ,blombds ,eedge ,sneds

tom taylor

soon arrival

the boats finally reach the far shore of uncertainty
a journey long and testing of our mettle & doubt
yet cheerful we remain on the shore of adventure
a hope and expectation in the soul of each and every

nor mere pairing of words expects the line to end
and then go on with newer information at the ready
an illumination of the mere beginning which was
made at the top of the sign and the room of the way

no betrayal brings us down but the cool conclusion
of anything as it makes a way and then finds it and
then gathers for the final second of commission and
the force that enables the continuing spirit to prevail

tom taylor

lessen ten

hurled into view beyond the reef tonight
a star passing overhead without thought
or action in the heavens of my mental plate
against the tunes resolved to become this

entry into the world’s plane and center at
some distance arrival noted for others to
guide them onto the plane of familiarity a
day away from the landing site this place

unparalleled like a moebius strip on the
table with words on the side to indicate a
path or life journey to take forward into
the place of light and dark against every