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- HOW WE RECAP THE GAME WHEN OUR WIVES COME HOME by DaveJarecki.com/blog on Oct 20, 2009
Because she’ll ask. She’ll want to know if the team won. Not that she knows the difference, but she knows you want her to ask, and even if you don’t want her to ask, you expect she’ll ask because you expect she expects you to...
- FIRST CHAPBOOK JUST RELEASED by DaveJarecki.com/blog on Oct 9, 2009
I’m happy to announce the release of “Backwards on the Train”, (c) 2009 Imperfect Press. The limited first edition of 111 hand-bound, hardcover volumes contains 11 poems, a few of which have appeared in previous drafts on the site.
- LASER LIGHT by DaveJarecki.com/blog on Sep 3, 2009
The following piece is in response to Read Write Poem’s prompt #90 - an image of a street performer balancing a flaming star. Rather than accessing the scene, making my way down that street or even turning into the performer, I waited for the p...
- SCORECARD by DaveJarecki.com/blog on Aug 31, 2009
My good friend Ryan Mayers sent me a scorecard that I kept when he, Donnie Sabs and I took in a Cubs game a couple of seasons ago. My scorecards are usually a mess, and this was no different - a mix of hieroglyphs, scribbles and meaningless notes tha...
- COUPLE EMBRACE IN TRAIN’S PATH by DaveJarecki.com/blog on Aug 27, 2009
This poem’s been vexing me since May 13, 2002, when I pulled an article out of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel with the same title. I can’t find the article now - it’s in a journal somewhere. And my attempts to find the story online...
- SAINT TINA MARIE by DaveJarecki.com/blog on Aug 13, 2009
The following comes from Read Write Poem’s prompt #87, working with vowel sounds. I decided to work with “A”. Avenue A was the first place I’d look for Tina when she disappeared. It wasn’t anything psychic. I knew her h...
- GROUNDS CREW MORNING by DaveJarecki.com/blog on Jul 30, 2009
The following poem feels rather undone to me. It comes from Read Write Poem prompt # 85 image prompt, “Cemetery in Malvern”. It’s a sepia print of two men squatting in a graveyard. I went in a couple of directions before I boiled it...
