Three forms in a single envelope!

[Rebecca Guyver]

I must admit I coveted something destined for Granny Eliane, so when I got my own too, the guilty pleasure of holding a piece of genuine De Villo Sloan concrete poetry made my head, my head swim.  I can't do this but I appreciate it enormously!Wrapped in the concrete poem was this card of the Park Manor Motel.  I don't think I've ever been to this particular fine establishment but what with the large mast of some sort in the background, I bet the internet connection is effective!

Mink Ranger's note was so kind.  He looks so poetic, agile and pleasant too. I hardly like to mention it, but I wonder if he might need a bit of extra English?  If you see him tell him that it's been cold and wet here in England too.  We're hoping the cold doesn't set in for good though, as we have another hen on eggs and lime plaster to set.

The third bit of poetry from Auburn was more working class. macaroni-cheese, oil changes, and a fag packet. the shifting lines suggest crowded tenement housing. Positively proletarian. My favourite line is 'in Lisa's house. The car was in the dr all of Ricky's inhalators.  I will follow them.' A trio of approaches under the umbrella of MnXus and DKult from a master - I will study them and endeavor to reciprocate in my own form.

[Carina]

DVS, I guess from this distance, it's easy to make an idyllic picture of the american landscape and living. I see the clanking truck coming..

[De Villo Sloan]

Thanks Alicia - nice to see you back on the block. Yeah, b&w concrete poetry seems so... I don't know... Old Fluxus. But it's fun to dust off.

[Alicia Starr]

Lovely poem De Villo.

[De Villo Sloan]

Thanks, Cheryl. My only thought was to get a fish to Granny Eliane. I had wanted to say the Granny Eliane Project seems particularly worthy. And congrats on the SA mail-art show!

[cheryl penn]

"poetic, agile and pleasant" - yip, have to go with that too :-) - I keep hoping some of this concrete is headed south.  Great work and blog X

[De Villo Sloan]

[vizma bruns]

Oh goodness, the way De Villo describes it, I think I may be living on a mink ranch. Time to clean up perhaps, or start charging entry fees?

[De Villo Sloan]

Thanks Dean!

Carina, I don't want to burst your bubble, but if you think that really beautiful photo resembles the Mink Ranch, you need to add a wrecked truck in the flower beds, a small refrigerator & chickens on the porch, and the mink sheds stretching out to the horizon with a big barb-wire fence.

[Dean aka Artist in Seine]

Yes the De Villo Sloan "See Horses" is very clever.  I like it.

[Carina]

Brilliant Rebecca, wonderful poetry!