https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/08/american-idol/ Purveyors of fine poetry since 2003. Sat, 05 Aug 2006 19:31:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/08/american-idol/#comment-1568 Sat, 05 Aug 2006 19:31:08 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/08/03/american-idol/#comment-1568 Thanks, beth.

]]> https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/08/american-idol/#comment-1567 Sat, 05 Aug 2006 01:34:17 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/08/03/american-idol/#comment-1567 Excellent poem, Dave, and the photo adds a great deal. You gave that cigar-store joke – the taciturn Indian – a voice.

]]> https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/08/american-idol/#comment-1566 Sat, 05 Aug 2006 00:15:26 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/08/03/american-idol/#comment-1566 That gives it a whole new slant.

]]> https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/08/american-idol/#comment-1565 Fri, 04 Aug 2006 11:58:25 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/08/03/american-idol/#comment-1565 Thanks for the comments. The photo was an afterthought, taken shortly before posting; I was actually thinking of some more typical, life-sized cigar store Indians I’ve seen. The carving in the picture is a moth-eaten antique doll residing, for some reason, in a window well in the basement of my parents’ house. (However, the two concluding lines occurred to me only after taking and processing the picture, so maybe there was some influence.)

]]> https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/08/american-idol/#comment-1564 Fri, 04 Aug 2006 08:18:20 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/08/03/american-idol/#comment-1564 Fantastic poem and picture. Where is this carving?

]]> https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/08/american-idol/#comment-1563 Fri, 04 Aug 2006 05:12:05 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/08/03/american-idol/#comment-1563 You’ve made this mask speak in a voice that feels eerily true.

]]> https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/08/american-idol/#comment-1562 Fri, 04 Aug 2006 00:12:52 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/08/03/american-idol/#comment-1562 Hungry ghosts.

]]> https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/08/american-idol/#comment-1561 Thu, 03 Aug 2006 22:44:15 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/08/03/american-idol/#comment-1561 An excellent pairing of picture & words. I love the laconic voice of the poem, which matches so well the phlegmatism in the face of the effigy.

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