Haikus: March 2011

HAIKUS: March 2011

By Peter Y. Chou
WisdomPortal.com

These haikus were written as exercises in mindfulness—
an attempt to catch the fleeting moment in my daily walks,
while reading, listening to music, and pondering about life.
(Underlined words are not for emphasis but to web links.)
This web page best viewed with Times font size 14.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011, 1:00-1:48 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me grocery
shopping at Safeway (2580 California St.)
Lost Bus Pass; Found in friend's car later

Aqua crispy shrimp,
raisin bran, orange juice.
cherry tomatoes, blueberries. Tuesday, March 1, 2011, 6:40-9:40 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Composing Notes to Poem: Vanishing Point;
Photos: Giza Pyramids & Double Rainbow

Pyramids symbolize
solid earth, rainbow
depicts dewy heaven.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011, 9:55 am
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Giant Rainbow spanning over Black Mountain;
RAINBOW in "Finnegans Wake" (page 226)

My poem ends with "rainbow"—
now a beautiful rainbow
spans the misty sky! Wednesday, March 2, 2011, 10:15-2:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Finished Notes to Poem: Vanishing Point;
James Joyce knew about Platonic Lambda

Finnegans Wake I.8
begins with pyramid shape
ending on page 216 (8 x 27).

Wednesday, March 2, 2011, 2:35-3:35 pm
Foothill College-Los Altos Library-Stanford;
Hitched ride with Tony Trinh, organic chemistry
student who drove me to Library and Stanford

Late for poetry class—
this angel appears to drive
me to Stanford on time. Wednesday, March 2, 2011, 3:15-6:05 pm
Stanford University, History Corner 200-105
Stephen Dobyns, Poetry Workshop (English 192V)
Read my poem "Vanishing Point" to class

Vanishing point is
metaphor for spiritual
goal that is infinite.

Thursday, March 3, 2011, 1:00-4:00 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at 99 Ranch Market (1350 Grant Road),
Nob Hill Foods & Los Altos Library

Veggie dumpling, bok choy,
cabbage bun, bean curd,
tofu, grapes, nonfat milk. Thursday, March 3, 2011, 4:30-9:45 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Reading "Earth on march toward mass extinction"
(By Nadia Drake, SJ Mercury News, 3-3-2011, B4)

Paul Ehrlich noted
Bay Checkerspot butterfly
vanished from campus.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011, 10:00 am-1:35 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Notes to Poem: The Letter B: "Mother & Child",
Leonardo's Madonna, Artemis, Twin Hills

We are all babes drinking
nourishment from the breast
of our Mother Earth. Wednesday, March 9, 2011, 10:00 am-1:35 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Notes to Poem: The Letter B: Poem's last line: "blossoming with beauty and blessings"

Found image to convey
this feeling— Lac Leman's
Castle of Chillon.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011, 3:15-6:05 pm
Stanford University, History Corner 200-105
Read my favorite poem in Staying Alive:
Ruth Stone's "Poems" (page 386)

Crow time, flycatcher time—
take me to your fractal
meaningless babble. Wednesday, March 9, 2011, 3:15-6:05 pm
Stanford University, History Corner 200-105
Stephen Dobyns, Poetry Workshop (English 192V)
Read my poem "The Letter B" to class

Dobyns says this poem
is the best I've written
and easy to understand.

Thursday, March 10, 2011, 10:00 am-2:00 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Corrected typos in Notes to Poem: The Letter B
Typed Notes to Dobyns 2/15 Poetry Colloquium

Larkin says poetry
needs to be theatrical
to convey emotions. Thursday, March 10, 2011, 2:45-3:10 pm
Palo Alto, 3920 Middlefield Road
Gentle Dental: Dr. John Glerum
installs permanent crown on tooth #21

Over an hour for
temporary crown but half
the time for permanent one.

Thursday, March 10, 2011, 4:15-7:50 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
"Will March 19 'Supermoon' Trigger Natural Disasters?" (Yahoo! News, March 10, 2011)

Moon closest to Earth
in 18 years and will be full—
earthquakes coming? Thursday, March 10, 2011, 4:15-7:50 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Read about Chuck Norris (born March 10, 1940);
Typed Notes to Dobyns 2/15 Poetry Colloquium

Dobyns asks himself—
What constraints in my poem?
What am I limited by?

Friday, March 11, 2011, 4:30 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Proposition bills passed funding new buildings
so they chopped off all the trees. What a pity!

Eucalyptus trees gone!
So is Tree of Lightness—
This is now a wasteland! Friday, March 11, 2011, 4:40-5:10 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
"Stonehenge Being Scanned With Laser For Secrets" (Yahoo! News, March 10, 2011)

Laser scans will search
for clues as to how and why
Stonehenge was built.

Friday, March 11, 2011, 7:30-9:15 pm
Stanford Theatre: Michael Curtiz directs
"Kid Galahad" (1937) with Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Wayne Morris, & Jane Bryan, (YouTube), (Film Reviews: 1, 2)

Promoter turns bellhop
into fighter and hopes
to make him a champ. Friday, March 11, 2011, 9:25-10:30 pm
Stanford Theatre: John Francis Dillon
directs "The Big Shakedown" (1934) with
Charles Farrell, Bette Davis, Ricardo Cortez,
Glenda Farrell, (Film Review)

Pharmacist coerced
by gangsters into making
phony medicine.

Saturday, March 12, 2011, 11:00 am-4:40 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Web page: Photos taken at Freemason Lodge,
Black Mountain view from El Monte Avenue

Platonic Lambda
in the Freemason logo
of compass and square. Saturday, March 12, 2011, 11:00 am-4:40 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Native: "Speculations Through Space & Time";
Freemason in "V and the Doubles Phenomena"

Double triangles
found in Freemason logo
of compass and square.

Sunday, March 13, 2011, 11:30 am-2:15 pm
Mountain View, Fresh Choice
2540 West El Camino Real
Treated friend for her birthday

Lots of fresh salad,
lentil & clam chowder soups,
jello and cookie pudding. Sunday, March 13, 2011, 2:20-3:30 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Trader Joe's (590 Showers Drive)
and Safeway (2580 California Street)

Eggs, salmon fillets,
fish dinners, fruit juices,
angel cake, strawberries.

Sunday, March 13, 2011, 5:00 pm-12:00 am
Stanford University, Green Library
Web Page: "Stephen Dobyns: Poetry Reading";
Robert Hass loves Dobyns insight on metaphor

Metaphor surprises
the reader into self-knowledge
about himself. Sunday, March 13, 2011, 5:00 pm-12:00 am
Stanford University, Green Library
Web Page: "Stephen Dobyns: Poetry Reading";
Typed "Payback" & "Mourning Dove" from books

"Mourning Dove" is not
about birds or fake prophets
but elegy to his mom.

Monday, March 14, 2011, 2:00-7:50 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Web Page: "Stephen Dobyns: Poetry Colloquium";
Valerie sents email— "Video: I am Maru"

Maru the Cat loves
to dive into boxes,
is playful and quite cute. Monday, March 14, 2011, 8:40 pm-12:12 am
Stanford University, Green Library
Web Page: "Stephen Dobyns: Poetry Colloquium";
Three more hours at Stanford to finish web page

Found link to Frost's
Paris Review Interview
and "Casey at the Bat".

Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 5:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Rudy got books from Amazon.com— Niederman's
"Number Freak" & Dobyns's "Best Words, Best Order", but Dobyns left 10 am and couldn't sign it.

Rudy got Dobyns
book a day late so he
couldn't sign it for me. Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 5:20-9:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Hike Photos 2008-2010 on Open Space Preserve Trails for 3rd Annual Digital Photo Contest of
Midpeninsular Open Space District (3-15-2011)

Gathered photos from
Nature Hikes but couldn't
upload them to SmugMug.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 6:56-7:16 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Three titles explore Elizabeth Bishop
through poetry, prose and correspondence"
(By Susan Salter Reynolds, LA Times, 3-16-2011)

Unsentimental—
Bishop writes with insight,
grace, beauty and strength. Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 7:16-9:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Hike Photos 2008-2010 on Open Space Preserve Trails for 3rd Annual Digital Photo Contest of
Midpeninsular Open Space District (3-15-2011)

Three Purisima Creek
Redwoods and Owl Image
found in hike photos.

Thursday, March 17, 2011, 4:50 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"A Simple Prescription for Superior Powers"
Film Review of "Limitless" (2011)
(By A.O. Scott, New York Times, 3-17-2011)

Cure for writer's block?—
NZT pill taps into
dark areas of brain. Thursday, March 17, 2011, 4:50-9:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Wrote 10 haikus with links from March 11-17;
Read "The Creature Connection" (Drawing)
(By Natalie Angier, New York Times, 3-14-2011)

Animals we love
the most are the ones that
make expressions at us.

Thursday, March 17, 2011, 10:30-11:00 pm
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM,
Christian Wilde sings "Danny Boy", (Web site),
St. Patrick's Day Tribute Video (YouTube)

Oh, Danny boy, the pipes
are calling from glen to glen,
and down the mountainside. Thursday, March 17-18, 2011, 11:08 pm-2:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Noory interviews Dr. Michio Kaku, Biography, (Web site),
"Future Science", Book: "Physics of the Future"

Neurons linked to pixels
so our dreams may be
recorded and played back.

Friday, March 18, 2011, 3:10-5:10 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Emails from Richard on Sony's Shareholder Meeting & Sarum's Yoshio Kusaba on Japan Quake Map

Information is
increasing so fast that
it's outdated in two years. Friday, March 18, 2011, 3:10-5:10 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Cat in the Tree photograph from last year found
in recovered USB drive so I can write a poem

Found lost photograph
of "Cat in the Tree"
from my apartment window.

Friday, March 18, 2011, 7:30-9:00 pm
Stanford Theatre: Archie Mayo directs
"It's Love I'm After" (1937) with Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Eric Blore, & Patric Knowles, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3), (Film Review)

Eric Blore as Digges—
whistles and flies like a bird
to warn of danger coming. Friday, March 18, 2011, 9:10-10:45 pm
Stanford Theatre: Edmund Goulding
directs "That Certain Woman" (1937) with
Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Anita Louise,
Ian Hunter, Donald Crisp, YouTube, Film Review

Bette Davis does not
get her way playing
a sacrificial role.

Saturday, March 19, 2011, 1:24-4:40 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
"Berlin zoo: Beloved polar bear Knut has died"
(Kirsten Grieshaber, Associated Press, 3-19-2011)

Knut the polar bear—
this cuddly cub so cute
whose stare touched my heart. Saturday, March 19, 2011, 1:24-4:40 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill College Krause Center
Reading about Yannis Ritsos (1909-1990)
and his poem "Completeness Almost"

She tells him, "Now that
I'm dead, the only thing
I'm missing is a small rose".

Sunday, March 20, 2011, 3:50-4:50 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at 99 Ranch Market (1350 Grant Road)
& Nob Hill Foods (1250 Grant Road)

Shrimp, fish, egg dumplings,
cauliflower, seaweed soup,
tofu, bean curd, milk. Sunday, March 20, 2011, 5:45-6:45 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Safeway (2580 California Street)
Saved $40 with Specials and coupons

Pizzas, potato chips,
plain yogurt, Swiss cheese,
shrimp dinner and green grapes.

Monday, March 21, 2011, 3:00-5:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM, George Knapp interviews Rahasya Poe, "Belief Systems",
Web site, Book: "To Believe Or Not To Believe"

Demolish your beliefs—
Go beyond illusions.
Experience the Real. Monday, March 21, 2011, 3:00-5:00 am
Home in Mountain View: Looking for cat quote
in Goethe's "Faust" and finding passage on
apple tree (I.21.4128, "Walpurgis-Night")

Lovely dream beholding
an apple tree, so fair
that I climbed thereon.

Monday, March 21, 2011, 2:20-3:00 pm
Palo Alto, 3920 Middlefield Road, Gentle Dental:
Periodontal care & Arestin by hygienist Joanie;
Metallic frog and butterfly on the wall of room

Electric toothbrush
cleaned my gums so there's
no need to have deep cleaning. Monday, March 21, 2011, 3:30-9:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Spring Equinox came March 20, 4:21 pm PDT
Dante on "primavera" spring (Purgatorio 28.143)

Here spring blooms— poets
sing of nectar and fruits
flowing in abundance.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 1:00-2:00 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping at
CVS Pharmacy (2630 W. El Camino Real),
and Walgreens (Palo Alto, Maybell Ave)

Deluxe mixed nuts with
sea salt, but Planter's peanuts
sold out at Walgreens. Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 4:00-9:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Scanning images from books on cat symbolism:
Typed cat passages from books in my library

Preparation for cat poem—
learning about cats from
books in my library.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 2:00-3:00 pm
Palo Alto: Rudy takes me shopping at
CVS Pharmacy (El Camino; Saved $33.77),
Fry's (340 Portage Ave) and Walgreens

Deluxe mixed nuts,
Vitamin D, Magnesium,
8 GB Kingston USB, raincheck. Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 3:15-9:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Peter Robinson's email on 60-year old albatross
named Wisdom surviving March 11 tsunami

Friend sends story of
albatross named "Wisdom"
for WisdomPortal web site.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 3:15-9:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Supernatural save by Quick" (Video)
(By Greg Wyshynski, Yahoo! Sports, 3-23-2011)

Jonathan Quick defects
hockey puck with his mind
or crack in the ice? Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 3:15-9:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Richard's email on "Walking in the Sunshine"
by Roger Miller & Babysitter Golden Retriever

Friend sends cute photo
of Golden Retriever with
Roger Miller song.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 3:15-9:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Elizabeth Taylor: 1932-2011 dies at age 79
(By Will Leitch, Yahoo! Movies, 3-23-2011)
NY Times Obituary (By Mel Gussow, 3-23-2011)

Mom loved Elizabeth Taylor
wanting to see her in
"Egyptian Queen" Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 3:15-9:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Scanning images from books on cat symbolism:
"Superstitions", "1000 Symbols", "Encyclopedia of Symbolism", "A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols"

Scanning and typing
cat symbolism passages
from books in my library.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 10:15-11:55 pm
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM,
George Noory interviews David Icke,
Biography, (Web site), "Global Conspiracy",
Book: "Tales from the Time Loop"

Secret cabal runs the world
brainwashing people
to follow their agenda. Thursday, March 24, 2011, 2:45-9:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Poetry in the Palms: The lush Maui retreat of W.S. Merwin, the U.S. poet laureate" (Julia Flynn Siler, Wall Street Journal, 3-25-2011), Merwin Reading

Merwin lives in Haiku,
Maui, amidst 850
different palm trees.

Thursday, March 24, 2011, 2:45-9:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Eyes of the Jaguar" by Irene R. Siegel is a journal of initiatory journey into nagual (Incan Shamanism) with totem power animals of the Four Winds.

Are the Jaguar's Eyes
windows to the other world
of the Great Spirit? Thursday, March 24, 2011, 2:45-9:00 pm
Palo Alto, Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Typing passages from books on Cat Symbolism:
"Superstitions", "Eclipse of the Sun", "Encyclopedia of Symbolism", "A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols"

Typed passages on
cat symbolism from
ten books in my library.

Thursday, March 24-25, 2011, 11:15 pm-2:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM,
George Noory interviews Jon Rappoport,
Biography, (Web site), "Genetic Engineering",
Book: "The Ownership of All Life"

Human genetic research
follows Nazi eugenics
breeding master race. Friday, March 25, 2011, 1:50-4:40 pm
Los Altos Hill, Foothill College Krause Center
"Poetry as a Weapon of War in Afghanistan"
(Jeffrey Brown, PBS Newshour, March 25, 2011)
Coleman Barks sent to Afghanistan (2005)

Taliban uses poetry
and music to combat
U.S. military might.

Friday, March 25, 2011, 7:30-8:45 pm
Stanford Theatre: William Dieterle directs
"Satan Met a Lady" (1936) with Bette Davis, Warren William, Marie Wilson, Alison Skipworth, & Arthur Treacher, (Film Reviews: 1, 2)

Adapted from Hammett's
novel Maltese Falcon
with jewels in ram's horn. Friday, March 25, 2011, 8:55-10:05 pm
Stanford Theatre: Alfred E. Green
directs "The Golden Arrow" (1936) with
Bette Davis, George Brent, Eugene Pallette,
Earle Foxe, Dick Foran, YouTube, Film Review

Bette Davis plays
Daisy Appleby—
a phony rich socialite.

Saturday, March 26, 2011, 12:30-5:00 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Reading "The Annotated Alice" (2000),
Notes by Martin Gardner (pp. 67-68)

Socrates to Theaetetus:
There's a doubt whether
we're awake or dreaming. Saturday, March 26, 2011, 12:30-5:00 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Reply to Rudy's inquiry on anagram
Some examples of anagrams

Rats = star = arts
Clint Eastwood = Old West Action
A decimal point = I'm a dot in place

Sunday, March 27, 2011, 1:50-3:00 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Trader Joe's (590 Showers Drive)
and Safeway (2580 California Street)

Sunflower seeds, seaweed,
carrots, eggs, broccoli,
smoked ham, coffee cake. Sunday, March 27, 2011, 4:30-9:00 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
"Art: A painter's emotional enlightenment"
(By Edward Sozanski, Inquirer, 3-27-2011)

George Inness in Italy—
Lake Nemi makes me
swim in serenity.

Monday, March 28, 2011, 2:15-5:05 pm
Stanford University, Bldg 260, Room 311A
Jean-Pierre Dupuy, "Problem of Desire, Violence, & Religion in Philosophy, Literature, & Cinema:
A Critical View on René Girard's Mimetic and Sacrificial Theory"; Dupuy signs Proxy Form

Missed Dupuy's email
about today's seminar—
arrived two hours late. Monday, March 28, 2011, 5:15-11:55 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Monty updated my Dupuy Proxy Library Card
to 3-28-2012; Upcoming Lectures: Ruth Reichl; Fakir's Mask: Sai Baba of Shirdi; Margaret Cohen: "How I Think About Literature: Images of the Sea"

Talks on "Food, Culture, History",
"Sai Baba's Apparitions in Mumbai",
"Imaginary Geography of the Sea".

Monday, March 28, 2011, 5:15-11:55 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
"Seattle's Wave Books brings poetry to the people"
(By Mary Ann Gwinn, Seattle Times, 3-27-2011)

Wave Books publishes
only interesting poetry
in beautiful books. Monday, March 28, 2011, 5:15-11:55 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
"English prof up for Colorado Book Award"
(By Jeff Francis, June 23, 2010) Bin Ramke:

Think of poems as abstract
paintings— a poem is about
shapes made by words.

Monday, March 28, 2011, 5:15-11:55 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
"Seeking enlightenment through yoga"
(By Sam McManis, Modesto Bee, 3-28 -2011)

Teach individuals—
inspire each of them
with care and compassion. Monday, March 28, 2011, 5:15-11:55 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Read Kay Ryan's "A Cat/A Future" & "Cheshire"
Typed "Cat Quotes" from Bartlett's Quotations

Picasso's Cat,
a cute Ottoman Cat,
and Steinlen's Cat in Moonlight.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 6:00-7:00 pm
Stanford University, Cubberley Auditorium
Ruth Reichl, "The Interaction of Food, Culture, & History" (NY Times Bookmarks: 1, 2, 3, 4), Flyer

It's not writing about food
but something deeper—
it's all about love. Tuesday, March 29, 7:30 pm-12:05 am
Stanford University, Green Library
Typed 26 "Cat Quotes" compiled
from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Cat quotes gathered from
Aesop, Dante, Cervantes,
Goethe and Shakespeare.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 4:00-5:45 pm
Stanford University, Encina Hall West, Room 208
William Elison, IHUM, "The Fakir's Mask: Public Apparitions of Sai Baba in and around Mumbai", (Sai Baba of Shirdi 1838-1918, Sathya Sai Baba)

Sai Baba of Shirdi
worshipped in Mumbai
with his shrines everywhere. Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 6:00-7:30 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
"A Guide to Entice Heads Into the Clouds"
Gavin Pretor-Pinney, "Cloud Collector's Handbook"
(By Cornelia Dean, NY Times, 3-28-2011) Slides

Happiness comes from
seeing beauty everyday
in finding yourself.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 7:30-8:00 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Dance: Poetry of Stillness, in a Moment Stretched to Infinity, (By Roslyn Sulcas, NY Times, 3-30-2011)

Two naked bodies
move with glacial slowness
on earth, grass, sticks & feathers. Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 9:30-11:59 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Typing Kay Ryan's Stanford Poetry Reading
(Cubberley Auditorium, February 23, 2010)

After three day's search
among a hundred folders
found Kay's Poetry Reading.

Thursday, March 31, 2011, 1:15-5:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM,
George Noory interviews Jim Steinmeyer,
Biography, (Web site), "Magic & Mentalism",
Books: "The Last Greatest Magician in the World: Howard Thurston"; "Hiding the Elephant"

Thurston's illusions—
woman sliced in half,
princess in air, horse vanished. Thursday, March 31, 2011, 1:15-5:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM,
George Noory interviews Clint Marsh,
Biography, (Web site), "Magic & Mentalism",
Books: "Clairvoyance & Occult Powers
"The Mentalist's Handbook"

Psychometry tells
history of objects,
astral travel to afterlife.

Thursday, March 31, 2011, 5:15-7:00 pm
Stanford University, Pigott Hall, Room 252
Margaret Cohen, "How I Think About Literature: Imaginary Geography of the Sea"

Haze under the sea—
mist and fog of dreams
dark waters of enchantment. Thursday, March 31, 2011, 5:15-7:00 pm
Stanford University, Pigott Hall, Room 252
Margaret Cohen, "How I Think About Literature: Imaginary Geography of the Sea"; Seahorse Birth

Jean Vigo's L'Atalante
Swimming underwater—
a deep blossoming.

Thursday, March 31, 2011, 7:30-10:00 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
"The Rich and the Bloody", Review of Adrienne Rich's "Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010" (By Rodger Kamenetz, Forward, 3-31-2011)

Burn me some music—
Send my roots rain, I'm swept
dry from inside... the mind. Thursday, March 31, 2011, 10:30-11:59 pm
Stanford University, Green Library
Typing Kay Ryan's Stanford Poetry Reading
(Cubberley Auditorium, February 23, 2010)
Typed "The Things of the World" & "Apology"

Checked references to
Margaret Cohen's lecture
so typed only two Kay poems.