JPHart / Fiction
If fiction is dead, reality is not far behind.
J.P. Hart
- Location
- Location,
- Birthday
- December 31
- Bio
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Sleep: our paradigm/
of the universe to keep/
through a constant night
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Daybreak young bucks joust
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Antlers clash, wet flank muscle
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Sunlit snow showers, night
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nothing but blue sky
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even the half moon stood still
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night's watch, as birds fought
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magnolia fire
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as the swan swims, rain fell cold
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flowers light the pond
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*Yes. That was me at Kmart in sunglasses asking for Van Morrison's
Greatest Hits.
Pleased to meet you!
MY RECENT POSTS
- Kafka Woke Me
May 19, 2012 09:27AM - Deeply from the Sixty-Six
May 16, 2012 08:01AM - Poem Not About Poetry
May 12, 2012 09:05AM - Dead Bird
April 29, 2012 01:15PM - I See You Are Old
April 28, 2012 09:33AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Most of the rest of us
don't know how lucky we are.
Was it
explained elsewhere
w…”
8:04AM - “Saul and I go way back.
Haven't thought of him since
that day
in Humboldt Park
an…”
May 22, 2012 08:27AM - “Smartest people I know
don't read fiction; they wrote
it.
{did anyone notice how
I…”
May 22, 2012 07:44AM - “An old corporate bard
once told me it's about
intellectual
stamina.
Nowadays, it'…”
May 22, 2012 07:21AM - “if at first you don't
succeed
TIME”
May 22, 2012 05:32AM
J.P. Hart's Links
- New list
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MAY 19, 2012 9:34AM
Kafka Woke Me
APRIL 28, 2012 9:34AM
I See You Are Old
I see you are old
and your thoughts young
that
you miss the clack
of a
taut-ribbon typewriter
and
large cash, 10's, 20's
an
assured walk over
unused
sidewalks
diminished wind chimes… Read full post »
APRIL 15, 2012 9:08AM
Haiku Alphabet: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Albatross
no loss
Atlantic crossed white wave toss
Asleep a sailor
Cat rests: sun warm stone
Chipmunk faces no fancy rhyme
Chattering wind chime
APRIL 6, 2012 8:11AM
Fiction: Easter in Dixie 1962
[Due
south on Rt. 41: a warm spring family vacation in 1962 all downward
to Galveston,Texas. Parents and the boy and girl and
grandmother Flannery packed tightly in a 1956 Chevrolet.
The Chevy was chartreuse and black with a continental tire
kit.]
&nb… Read full post »
MARCH 27, 2012 12:52AM
Walking to My Father's House
weren't
warm
hood
up,
tea
candy
and
just me
Hey
you!
Walking
to my father's house
My
father's house let me be, hey
Watchagotthere?
Walking
to my… Read full post »
MARCH 24, 2012 3:21PM
Haiku
Theater is dead
Though the matinee begins
Time
knows no actor
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Night's watch, and birds fought Gone again dark night
Even the half moon stood still &… Read full post »
MARCH 18, 2012 4:13AM
Fiction: Road Trip in a Season of Crows
an infinite short story
A
cross the street from the Dairy Queen I espied a sea hawk. She circled ho… Read full post »
MARCH 16, 2012 6:00AM
POEM: We Are Leaving
winded
days,
our
sand
graves
twelve,
would it be
months,
but
hours,
years
bundle
ten, as
seconds
flash
gallons
of grapes,
horses
prancing
windward dust
clouds
dancing
thunder
and
dauntless
bolts
mad
with the insane
no
compass,… Read full post »
MARCH 13, 2012 3:04AM
POEM: Contrarian
as
poems
are
wrought
by
fools
like
thee
only
Zorro
knows
the
sorrow
of
names
that
start
with
Z
as
poems
are
wrought
by
fools
for
free
concrete
or
confetti
contrite
so
rhyme
can
be
poems
are
wrought
battles
fought
if the
day begins
with
frothed… Read full post »
MARCH 3, 2012 12:11AM
Fiction: Stunned Silence
There'd been a dampness through the legs up off the concrete for several days now. The weather map again swirls with layered snow squalls. And massive blizzard.
Fast sea air approaches and flails wet snow… Read full post »
FEBRUARY 25, 2012 4:16AM
POEM
FEBRUARY 7, 2012 7:00AM
Midnight Cowboy Ending / Final scene - YouTube
It is now illegal for Wisconsin taverns to distribute matches.
Who is writing these laws?
later
I suspect it is in the soil
JANUARY 19, 2012 2:10AM
Slow Down First
right
away
belt
line
politics
Oh to be
Kingston Town
now drive past
Ian Fleming's
homesweethome
watch the driver
points
that
house
that… Read full post »
JANUARY 17, 2012 11:05AM
R I C E CAKES
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DECEMBER 5, 2011 1:25AM
Any Particular Day
from the collection 'The Servant Loves Sleep'
Pass the paper bag, sonny
Hey
ha-dada-hey
Dude,
what up
well it
was not only a great game,
but a
valid game… Read full post »
NOVEMBER 30, 2011 6:40AM
On a Darkhorse They Did Ride
Easily the most convocative rendering yet this veracious
albeit hellacious graciously winding down year.
Granted the definitiveness necessary for creativity and
the potential o… Read full post »
NOVEMBER 23, 2011 12:19PM
Where Jaws was Filmed
Bright red ankle skin shinned her alabaster legs, and the sun was white over here, here, high noon to the left over the beach. I fluffed the towel over her just-beginning-to-st… Read full post »
NOVEMBER 23, 2011 10:57AM
Richie Havens, Freedom, (Woodstock)
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NOVEMBER 18, 2011 2:36AM
I Be
toward an industrious piece replete with
a parallel (some words you o you just have
to
memorize, sorry) wherein the cast (thank you
Mister Tolstoy) ultimately goes through
other last door (glossy, canary yellow)… Read full post »
NOVEMBER 12, 2011 8:32AM
Soldiers of the Non Sequitur
I DUCK, COVER
An April 16, 2010 meteor cascaded
(flashed, suspended and swooped actually) crashing as I recollect,
near Sparta, Wisconsin.
Though newsworthy and documented,
there's surprisingly odd archive of the event and what appears to
be varied re
… Read full post »
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