Deborah Meadows
Six poems
from the Sevens series
1. More public art of cowboys.
2. We have to repeat this
until we get it right.
3. We sleep outside, we sleep publicly.
4. Under stars.
5. Understudy.
6. Sacred boys, we want you.
7. Shared fund: pooling drive, Romulus.
1. the Way of Tea
2. the Way of tee-hee; platinum-iridium
3. outside Paris, our kilogram now weighs less
4. flux to constant, then tonic after all
5. could we express math in ceremony?
6. Try electro-magnetic current,
use Planck’s constant
7. it’s an idea; Buddhist ‘convention’
1. mountains: Piutes, Pluto, Kepler-452b
2. have we made our habitable zone
thoughtless?
3. Symposium triangle: Socrates,
poets of tragedy and comedy
4. once dead, always
5. speak of Love: the mean, mediator,
message
6. why use ‘ultimate’ terms?
7. false gravity, specific alcohol potation
1. Partch created BooBams to
accompany Chet Baker
2. humorous: over-sized
3. said ‘bamboo spelled sideways’
4. Yank, our parody
5. pain requisite for ‘ha!’
6. he, or Mozart, as subject
another’s composition
7. is it a mausoleum?
1. Sister Corita Kent had a message:
Love
2. No one said, ‘You can wear
your costume. ’
3. Steve Roden’s ‘seed’ text
by Ponge
4. long and two-sided
5. diagonal essence, here and scribble
over there
6. a fertility symbol, when another
is beside you in language
7. incarnations of Christ
or things?
1. Othello
2. (circle of attention, Stanislavsky:
An Actor Prepares)
3. do you feel betrayal?
4. when you dice each step, each
knob turn, shoulder drop?
5. ‘scientists announce a unicellar
common ancestor to eukaryotes’
6. It comes through you.
7. People in makeshift encampments
‘jumped to 9,500