![Ren [Katherine] Powell](/storage/website-header2.jpg "Ren [Katherine] Powell")
An argument for hyperrealist lit.
from Red-eared Slider:
Elvis is dead.
Somebody found him in his bathroom,
his head by the toilet bowl probably,
said Grandma.
Mamma's in Hawaii with her bowling league.
We're sitting on the couch with Grandma,
watching the news.
Toby must have climbed my dresser drawers.
Lucky the whole thing didn't topple.
Now he sits on the couch,
his hands an incubator, a lean-to, a tomb:
Grandma's roots shine
like Christmas tinsel,
Toby's petting
my fish.
Elvis's big, pale face
wobbles in the footage,
singing Blue Hawaii.
from "Red-eared Slider", from mixed states, 2004
Wigestrand Publishers
reprinted with permission at Fiera Lingua
Saturday, December 10, 2011 at 11:38AM I saw a website called fiverr. People will do/make things for 5 bucks. Nathan is making play doh stop motion animations with his kids: 15 seconds for 5.
The result is something of an exquisite corpse... with kids.
It Wasn't the Flu (From Mercy Island. Phoenicia Publishing, 2011).
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 at 4:34PM After having spent nearly 6 months working on animations, more questions were developing in my mind regarding what I was doing and why.
Animapoetics is on the back burner while I figure things out.
More to come...
Animapoetics .
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at 7:16PM "The Parentage of the Dix Pear", an animated poem by Ren Powell (interactive version on website)
Friday, May 22, 2009 at 11:47PM "Hydrotherapy", an animated poem by Ren Powell (Interactive version on website.)
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 9:18AM "A Primer", an animated poem by Ren Powell (part of the Dix series). The podcast version may be too small to read. The larger, interactive version available at animapoetics.com
