tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49082301959197046972009-10-01T08:25:27.364-07:00A conversation in words and pictures between poet/performance artist Dennis Somera and visual artist Andy Gouviea.Andy Gouveiaandygouveia@gmail.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4908230195919704697.post-5440040325476310612007-08-15T16:19:00.001-07:002007-08-15T16:24:35.757-07:00<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/agouv/1130722743/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1080/1130722743_311135ef05_o.jpg" width="400" height="" alt="column" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4908230195919704697-544004032547631061?l=seespeak.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy Gouveiaandygouveia@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4908230195919704697.post-45614208288348898742007-08-15T00:05:00.000-07:002007-08-15T00:07:22.846-07:00lOOkou<br />t <br />ruckhuggeryerfernasfiggery tha t ree ill bend & break you(r hold) <br />if you don't step correctly<br />w/the emperoar's combat bOO<br /> t s muckraker if you'd only do yOUr job—contribute to societyour alie n ation daily<br />we could run in our backyard barefoot<br /> - run our backyard barefoot in freedom and safety kNOwing i'd have no spine-tipped serrated leaves to penetrate me soft heel s O W!<br />trunkhugg[belc H ear]er e xcuse me but unless you wanna(ndy)go(uvei)all the way of the holly <br />put down the tree as lower than me thouGh(ULP as far as i knoweave an even exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide) cutting down someonething never took such literal significancer as on this fourth of july, 2007 i w/an swer ve er i t as hu m an im alicious nessmess<br />cut <br />down the <br />holly tree <br />in me<br />and ou r eal not imaginary <br />backyard (well mostly as the main trunk still stands like a fingerlessfistump in defiance &<br />it's hugger wavesags away) anyway<br />"My Housemate Started It!" <br />lightly this noi se ep<br />through my window <br />would end certainly soon <br />er and let me sleep longer<br />pulling aside my curtain saw ‘im sawing<br />my destroyer the menace this destruction threw on some clothes<br />this independence mourn <br />this seveRing freedom<br />from the securitOUR barefoot backyard bonanzaland for throwing frisbees and footballs but lessen bir d efense from predatORs <br />lesson one less one les s on in defense of a no t hoRoughly grafte d id <br /> ea/io tautology<br />less our les s our defense s we et coneheadopen to the universal moment more or less fearlessphere <br />we share in the distance-<br />les s hade above but w/o a hitchcock appearance below lennon and lemon trees more ligh t ru th at we kille d uh thing for our comfort on the fourth for our freedom of pain on the fourth or let go of what isn't working for us anymore on a working fourth destroying a holly tree on a holiday lop<br />ping expeditiona l <br />i m<br />b<br />(inding the shape and mass like ours) <br />timbuh from a ladduh lordingove(ia)r spiney leaves spineless defenses behind foreal <br />free(D O M y brothe r e birth day is thi s ame holiday as it well s/b he needs the cLeaving in himself) and avocaDO(M) and fig trees that get more sunshine stat. juslike dat. <br />dennisisomera<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4908230195919704697-4561420828834889874?l=seespeak.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy Gouveiaandygouveia@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4908230195919704697.post-54729920329458992462007-08-15T00:01:00.000-07:002007-08-15T16:23:41.676-07:00<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/agouv/710133094/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1313/710133094_f44029d80e.jpg" width="450" height="" alt="Soil1" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4908230195919704697-5472992032945899246?l=seespeak.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy Gouveiaandygouveia@gmail.com0