![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
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
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