Dream 21: Dvorak’s Symphony No. 1 in C Minor “The Bells of Zlonice”

by | Mar 6, 2014 | Poetry

If you record this, it’s ill-named,
full of diving broads who just won’t
karate with you.  XO XO…tic-tac-toe,

“does the big idea ever get to happen?”

She harnesses all of the power
of all of the planets in the sky—simultaneously.
All of these silhouettes,
mysterious how they appear stationery
(written) for our umbrellas or
cameras. On the beach we conduct
neuroscience. It’s the year we
meteors. The year we comets.
The year me    becoming
alone               not together.

 

 

 














Notes after dream: “Does the big idea ever get to happen?” —Bill Berkson

Photo By: hkokko

About The Author

Lina ramona Vitkauskas

Lina ramona Vitkauskas is the author of SPINY RETINAS (Mutable Sound, 2014); Professional Poetry  (White Hole Press, 2013);   A Neon Tryst (Shearsman Books, 2013); HONEY IS A SHE  (Plastique Press, 2012); and   THE RANGE OF YOUR AMAZING NOTHING (Ravenna Press, 2010).

She is the recipient of the Henry Miller Memorial Library Ping Pong Journal Prize (selected by Eleni Sikelianos) and  The Poetry Center of Chicago’s Juried Reading Award  (selected by Brenda Hillman).

Publications include Spork, Coconut, The Awl, DIAGRAM, Tarpaulin Sky, The Chicago Review, The Toronto Quarterly—among many others.

With Larry Sawyer, she has co-edited milk magazine (since 1999). She has also served as a part-time faculty member at the Chicago School of Poetics for 2011-2013. Her website is www.linaramona.com.