Black Spring Online

 Issue 1      December 2003      ©TheRepublicofCalifornia.com

 

 

 

About Current Issue: New writing from Stephen Ellis' Opulence; poems by kari edwards; poems by Jim McCrary; poems by Steve Tills; poems by Brent Bechtel; poems by Catherine Daly; poems by Chris Murray; poems by Layne Russell.
Upcoming Spring Issue: Poetry, Reviews, Essays, Writing for UPCOMING LAWRENCE Issue being accepted now.

Catherine Daly


Downcasting


casting a pointerdown
casting aspersions
casting a line
like this: once confident:
Jump! Roll! practice (both shoulders): Shimmy!
shooting slack line into delivery.

as the fly swings ‘round the dangle, the caster hand-lines
to attract an aggressive fish response                             hard line
The basic method of shooting line management is trap it
            pointing to          no pointers in java
        reference to

            base class
                         that wouldn’t be women?
                         not broadcasting
            derived class
                         no derivative works                   copy         right

downcasting’s not the basic object-oriented rule
            (derived objects and base variables)
                                                    x

it doesn’t always work;
downcasting’s a question

an instance of an instance?
a fish? a line? a hook?
                                                     j

sinker
down


throw an exception back: that proves the rule

 

 

from In Medias Res
          
(DaDaDa, Salt Publishing 2003)


Dissolve and Blur


Mine / heart free. Your service too constant.
Believing in you, draining, retaining nil, abandoning myself,
I was your slave, but goodbye,

I'm leaving you, thank god.

Mine    fffffree. ssssserviccccce conssssstant
                            draining, retaining                  
       messssselfffff
     
sssssslave,             good       bye,

              you,



Start Walking


Rocks (know how) speak about it.
Even
rocks beneath my feet do it.

                               speak

                               feet

 

 

Transition


Goodness is rewarded with annihilation; it isn't this I found.
heart = gift, gift = text, text = object, object = gift
I can't complete; completion is more like lying than speaking.



 


 

 

              
     
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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