His voice resonates
of deep tones mixed
with the instinctive throaty sounds
of a lion calling its mate
at day's end
He reads me the poetry
of Kenneth Patchen
his voice so comforting
so much so
I drift off to dreamland.....
I wake to the quiet of the phone
"Hello, hello. . . "
no one is there
But he calls again
and says he thought his voice
was turning me on, until he realized
it was not a soft moaning he heard
but soft snoring
Yet, he calls me again
talking of another place
another time, when children
lined up at the bakery ovens
for hot loaves of bread
and tubs of butter, unable to wait
till they got home to eat them—
of homemade ice cream
and milk in glass bottles
So simple, so sweet is his voice,
he becomes that little boy to me—
Again, I wake to silence.
Still, he calls again
telling me stories
of south sea waters
as smooth as polished glass
and a white bird
gliding with its reflection
barely cutting the surface
in a Naval Amphibious Training Zone—
he is only the age of 17, I ponder
at these simple impressions at a strange time,
he becomes the hero . . .
Again I wake up to silence
"Hello, hello......" startling me wide awake
a deep, sleepy voice answers and says
"I thought I would shut up for a while
and listen.....
I think I've discovered the secret
of how to wake you ....."
The poem "The
Caller" describes the beginning of M. O. M.
F. N. Wright was not
particularly excited about this prose style of writing. The
editors knew it was not his preferred style of poetry, but with
encouragement from the SKB team, he has produced some memorable
stories. FN
spent hours on the phone telling me so many, many wonderful
stories; now the stories can now be appreciated by many. A
timeless work. The Mattoon
prose stories resonate through time.
Here are links to
the Sketchbook:
Index
Archives
For more Info contact:
karina3884@aol.com
Sketchbook: A Journal for Eastern and Western Short Forms.
Karina Klesko and John Daleiden:
Editors
http://poetrywriting.org
Sketchbook II OutlawPoets II: A Journal for Beat and Era Poetry
Karina Klesko, John Daleiden and Shanna Baldwin Moore: Editors
Sketchbook II Vol. 1, No. 1 January 29, 2008http://poetrywriting.org
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Memories
Of Mattoon
F. N.
Wright
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February 2007: Introduction, Chapters 1-3
September 2007: Chapter 4
October 2007: Chapter 5-6
November 2007: Chapters 7-8
December 2007: Chapter 9
January 2008: Chapter 10
March / April 2009:
The Kid With The Stepladder
Step In A Hole
Remembering Ray
May / June
2009:
Trying out for the Cardinals
Click to see
full page view
Sketchbook
Published Work of F. N. Wright
Art Galleries
of F. N. Wright
December 31, 2006:
F. N. Wright, Two
Art Rengas:
In Search of the Poet,
Art Renga
January 31, 2007:
F. N. Wright—Five
Decades of Art
February 28, 2007:
F. N. Wright—Mardi
Gras: Fat Tuesday,
September 15,
2007: F. N. Wright—Haiga:
a bear
October 31, 2007:
F. N. Wright—In
Memory of Richard Brautigan
An online
link to an F.
N. Wright Art Gallery
Poems of F. N.
Wright
February 28, 2007:
F. N. Wright—Solitude
& Loneliness,
True Love
September 15,
2007: F. N. Wright—Free
Verse—Denver,
Benzaiten, he wanted
October 31, 2007:
F. N. Wright—Two
Poems—A
Poem for John Fante, The Kingston Trio
January 31, 2008:
Picture Poem by Kenneth Patchen, US from the Collection of
F. N. Wright
Prose of F.
N. Wright
November 30, 2007:
F. N. Wright—Talking
with Richard Brautigan
Interview
January 31, 2007: Karina
Klesko Interviews F. N. Wright:
Worlds of Mine
On-line links
On-line link to
F. N. Wright artwork
Link to Memories of Mattoon
published in
The Journal Gazette & Times-Courier Archives, Mattoon,
Illinois.
