Wow.
I just had my interview with Roberto Eslava Chavéz, and among the things he asked me, which of the books I’d written was my favorite, and I told him the truth, “New Kiss Horizon”, all about Thomas Robert Higgnson and a character named Vashti Astapad Warren
He asked me how did I feel about collaboration and I told him that no piece belonged exclusively to any one person; that senses are portals allowing access to information that, as feeble as we may be, we translate something into something; does not have to be words, but we receive information and give information back to the world, and we are all changed for the exchange.
I explained that collaboration is the only way, that nothing belongs to any individual; only though sharing –for instance the poem I sent, “If You See Something, Say Something” a collaboration with Thomas Robert Higginson, and all of this made
“If You see Something, Say Something” as published in “The Fiddlehead” (issue 268):
–in response to: “If you See something, Say something”
–Thomas Robert Higginson
“If you See something, Say Something
Banana”
white shadow
crescent moon
Wax (ing)
Wax banana
Wax grapes, apples
in bowls
On my mother’s dining room table
lunch
kitchen sink
I see this also
my father washing dishes
scalding water
his skin
down the drain
plates clean, heavenly,
full of banana water spots
we eat the shadows.
two of which
are my father’s
diseased lungs
yet I float on clouds
into such a clean, pure kingdom
that nothing else matters
just a banana which I eat the moment I arrive.
Buddha
in suds.
