Claude Mayers -- featured poet @ the Feb 11 2023 All Souls Second Saturdays Poetry Reading. He reads for 20 minutes after the introduction by host/poet Dan Kerr, & the welcoming // two poems from Suffolk County (LI, NY) Poet Laureate Richard Bronson. Claude starts with 'Change The Plumbing To Poetry' @ 8:30 on the timeline, from the beginning of the recording. Then he returns for 5 more minutes, reading 3 poems: one about viewing a tsunami wave from a safe height; then two sequential short poems about surf from Thanksgiving & the Next Day, November 2002.
There are a few audio glitches which we hope to pre-emptively transcend (as possible, depending on the mind of the listener):
4:12 Richard Bronson -- 'Subterfuge' & '1st Do No Harm'
8:30 'Change The Plumbing To Poetry (After Richard Brautigan) -- Poetry existential / Or recreational
11:25 'Lovers' Escape,' (two lovers/activists who note they may be funded abundant -- opposing blatant greed that jukes the powerful to need more epicenters from which to bleed the populace of their equity . . . )
13:38 The Charming -- 'At Daybreak . . . Francis Flake' -- for those who love cake
14:26 'Every Morning' [last words are: to what I give and how I'm minded]
15:01 'I Open Myself To The Universe'
15:46 'For Kahlil Gibran' -- Logic falters at the diamond footpaths / Crossing before the palace / Empower the boldness of you
16:17 'Shuddupp!!' -- for the late-starting woman driver, driving in the passing lane, I sitting next to her, The powerless teenage son telling her she should switch lanes . . .She ignoring me . . .
18:50 'C. In The First Citizens Bank Parking Lot' bangs into the pick-up again cracking its bumper. She pulls up beside the unattended vehicle, checks her own car, brushes with her fingers, upset slightly that she's done a bit of damage . . . says she hates driving in Scarborough as she hesitantly exits the lot . . .
20:40 'Virginia Car Crash 4-26-22' She was driving her car . . There were tornado warnings & freeze alerts . . . .
22:24 'In Your Next Life You Will Have A Moustache' for a stewardess . . .by the time she returned with a tiny white straw & pink napkin . . . What was causing him to fell strange -- via his unconscious memory in his next body . . .
25:18 'Pursitis' -- for the ladies, after a hard evening at the Dali museum carrying the heavy Coach bag from painting to painting Surreal/Impressionistic/Faces hidden subtly -- Parononia / Ships passing / smoke trailing / Beyond a multicolored pastel beach . . . Could she have checked the object, sat upon the lightweight portable seats provided / All the pill bottles, lipsticks, Panamanian money, St. Anthony medals, Prayers to Mary, The Pinchas Book of Healing . . .
27:29 'Fenda Benda' -- Orange lemurs nibbling bananas in the trees / Traffic on the main highway heavy . . . While the man in the Mercedes cellphoned his busty blue-eyed babe, Smoking on a stogie, Watching the ferris wheel turn / So early in the day . . .
29:40 Dan Kerr, Open Read: Marvin, Shu, Dan Kerr, Kathy Donnelly
41:30 Encore Claude Mayers 'After The Tsunami Alarm' Struggling anyway / Stretching for the last handrail / The Buddha watching you . . .Dream afternoons/With the snow shining / In the aftermath / Of a blizzard / Damp branches crackling / The fire steady / The tea still warm . . .
44:18 'Tropical Thanksgiving Yesterday 2002 (The Tubes Were Groovin')' . . . the wind offshore / the inside sections hollow / and perfect / Cruising inside them / 100 yard long rides . . .
45:29 'Next Day' . . . . Dropping in /Seeing the perfect line ahead / Those tubes waiting / When we reached / The inside hollows / Of a magic glorious day . . .
46:00 Conclusion