Gayle Hansen's Writings
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Poem
Jul.23.2010
Omphaloskepsis
For Susan Browne
I learned a New Word today
Omphaloskepsis
Tripped over it in a poem by
My former Poetry Professor
Susan Browne in her new book, Zephyr
Om pha los kepsis
It’s one of those kinds of words that
Instantly wants to be my new mantra
That I love Susan for sharing but
Find myself frowning over
O’ Om pha los kepsis
Because I hate...
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Poem
Oct.09.2009
FOR SUSAN BROWNE'S POETRY CLASS AT DIABLO VALLEY COLLEGE
REMOTE TROLL NOCTURNE
a fathom’s flight into deep night off the blades of a knife fightflashes of lightning flicker
a woman screams, musical commercestreams and pulls me up to gasp for airand bolt up half awake, half in fear
to stare at the remote troll cat who rolls over in dreaming and the channels change...
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Poem
Oct.09.2009
FOR SUSAN BROWNE'S POETRY CLASS AT DIABLO VALLEY COLLEGE
THE EXERCISE WAS TO WRITE A POEM IN TWENTY-MINUTES
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TWENTY MINUTE POEM
My monitor glares at me with blank displeasureWaitingFor something joyous and poetic to flow Up from my soul through my fingers And down to the keyboardFat chance! because I’m actually kind ofBored with poetryTodayNot suffering so much...
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Poem
Sep.12.2009
for Susan Browne's Poetry Class, Diablo Valley College
Sweet Sixteen
pretty in the last pink she would ever wear without shamea girl should not haveto have as the longest lasting memory of Daddyhis drunk-pink face planted right square in the middleof a public plate of barbecued pinkpork chow meinsnoring and drooling like a pighappy birthday, baby
it ain’t right for a girl on the...
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Poem
Dec.19.2008
Poem writing FINAL assignment for English 224 Poetry Writing, Professor Susan Browne, Diablo Valley College
NOVEMBER
The geese are flying low this yearAs low as I’ve ever seen or heardTheir calls seem hushed and muffled in the fogSmall and without the raucous joy of other years
And not just one flock, or twoBut four an hour and four days runningThey seem to be headed the wrong way, tooEast instead of South, and slow
As...
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Poem
Oct.23.2008
FOR SUSAN BROWNE'S POETRY CLASS AT DIABLO VALLEY COLLEGE
Imagine if we could start all over again
I would begin in the middle
in the middle was wherewhere all the heat andthe meat on the boneand the bone and the bloodthe blood and the pure deep ilove in the middle iloved in the middle ilived
ah, yes, the beginning the beginning was funfun and exciting the highthe high and the longing the longing the longing the...
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Poem
Sep.25.2008
DOWNTOWN SEATTLE 1953
once upon the way to see the old king kong movie starring fay wray my favorite grandma going old at only fifty-eight and me just barely gone seven when her ancient whale bone corset goesSNAP!
half through the crossing of third at university as we hurry to make the matinee at noonthe ghost of some poor old harpoon’dnineteenth century...
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Been there, done that...but NOT TODAY!!!”
—Lumpy Karma
About Gayle
Gayle Hansen is a self-described "Old Hippie Biker in Recovery" She's not fooling anyone by writing this profile in the 3rd person, but she likes the sound of it, although I find it difficult to sustain, see?
Gayle is also a non-traditional...
Connections
Causes Gayle Hansen Supports
Pacific Primate Sanctuary, Haiku, Maui, Hawai'i www.pacificprimate.org/
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Gayle’s Favorite Books
Anything with words...