Ping Project

your saturday

It was wet; the sunflower seeds crowded the floor;
For ten minutes I crawled to stalk them.

Later, their dozens lost form,
Cluttered a cappella pellets
The broom swept up.

The converted street is pedestrianized;
The zone is partial to
Temporarily housing people—
Their arms swing and hunch-
Ing their backs—pick up garbage like
Crazies, and they ask to collect change for it.

“If you’re going to call home, do it collect,” she says.

To drift through it is like sailing their waters.
They force you, or you have to hear—

“what’s there?” 

               -“hum?”

“sugar.”

               -“you can taste it?”

Any you can shuffle papers.  There is no echo.
Where I choose to sit, I am near two men.

One a prop root, one a pivot.

Pouring saturday,
I was here and
hoping you could explain it to me—

cats
near the register

regorging &
nettling everything.

This post would not be possible if it weren't for the sometimes hilarious, sometimes poetic posts In Palinode's Palace. 
posted by hailey

TheRe state

is my day is coming up and fast. be the marked de-
cline But the main that
lately all my dreams have all been about real estate.

here the door to closet or
ever a there—or
did know saw. There’s where I own
a mans every interior
design realized.

The room. The spare double whirl put the meditation
The entire crochet hammock swinging this way and that.

funny. Like I own something
has been to an apartment
what  The cocky are to a big dick. And then
there’s what a great bargain they—to the tune of a two-bedroom that’s just

a little crazy estate— worthwise—when I cover

something I’m on to
hay
concrete
altar over a floor

four closets—dear—four—that you

can touch. I wonder
I should make a stomach
a space to Invest Spare change

Like a down payment

This is an erasure of a post by a New York escort.  New York escort, you've been pinged!  The internet allows for stranger things.  But honestly, I have been only dreaming about real estate too.

see the original post at a new york escorts confessions

-hailey

Roman Candles

Both refriderators seem
to have

problems

the underlay of buzzing.

(If mapped on a sinewave
imagine the waves
lapping).

This is what they call

emergence:

The Way which
all waves form
from their antitheses.

Both rythmic and
chaotic.

If only to dicern
patterns,

or to resolve
oneself
to discord.

The girl ate too many hot dogs,
buns shoved into her face,
substanceless

lubricated.

Thrown, fully clothed,
into the pool.

To light bottle
rockets and roman
candles.

my name is hailey.

Glossolalia

Not a language, without

repetition or grammar,

but for the sake of the sounds.

Room for the emotions nor the mystery

left once that flashlight,

left on the ground, beside the school shines.

Always wanted that fervor as if god himself the man,

the ghost and the lamb.

Touched, that's what they called it,

as though that innocence desired

that certain innocence that is without words not

stutters or pauses just wordless and darkless.

The frequency of Him or the hymn,

al tucked in the back of the pew to follow,

the way the notes go.

Syllables without referents.

-----

This is a response to "tounges of fire" on Jennifer Ouelette's "Cocktail Party Physics" weblog.

repetition or grammar,

but for the sake of the sounds.

Room for the emotions nor the mystery

left once that flashlight,

left on the ground, beside the school shines.

Always wanted that fervor as if god himself the man,

the ghost and the lamb.

Touched, that's what they called it,

as though that innocence desired

that certain innocence that is without words not

stutters or pauses just wordless and darkless.

The frequency of Him or the hymn,

al tucked in the back of the pew to follow,

the way the notes go.

Syllables without referents.

-----

This is a response to "tounges of fire" on Jennifer Ouelette's "Cocktail Party Physics" weblog.

Standard Candles

With respect to Jennifer Ouelette

The discovery of what was then called a 'remnant' or

1987A:

To know that even with the reformat we are left with
these remnants that scar

the physical face such that there is no blankness or spaceness,

because for every so-called blank space the remnants

build a patina that marks the passage of time or that
collection of remnants whirring in a

counterclockwise spiral that gathers,

forming solid mass.

Entropy not erosion but creation.

The excess, the hurky-jerky,

Until having burned off all of the hydrogen,
the helium fuses, a contraction of the core;

the original red supergiant more than a collection of

blue-
screens,

more than the sum of all re-
boots

Sometimes those remnants
are just too stubborn that the reformat never takes hold

like that odd solar neutrino

like that whiff of perfume that

stubbornly concentrated, does not dissipate over time and space,

the energy from its death throes engorging the bubble.

With respect to Jennifer Ouelette

The discovery of what was then called a 'remnant' or

1987A:

To know that even with the reformat we are left with
these remnants that scar

the physical face such that there is no blankness or spaceness,

because for every so-called blank space the remnants

build a patina that marks the passage of time or that
collection of remnants whirring in a

counterclockwise spiral that gathers,

forming solid mass.

Entropy not erosion but creation.

The excess, the hurky-jerky,

Until having burned off all of the hydrogen,
the helium fuses, a contraction of the core;

the original red supergiant more than a collection of

blue-
screens,

more than the sum of all re-
boots

Sometimes those remnants
are just too stubborn that the reformat never takes hold

like that odd solar neutrino

like that whiff of perfume that

stubbornly concentrated, does not dissipate over time and space,

the energy from its death throes engorging the bubble.

The How-Tos of Ping

OK,

Pinging, as it has come to my attention in my attempt to ping Palinode 17, is not universally supported. You need a little program called TrackBack, which I know comes standard issue with TypePad, but not with blogger. That said, for pingproject, you will have no problems on our end.

Because of this unforseen technological problem, I have added a "manual pinging" method to the pingproject. I have listed both below:

AUTOMATIC PINGING

Step 1) Find your original source. If it is a blog, at the end of it there may be a little link called "TrackBack" this link gives you the trackback URL for the post. Copy this to your clipboard.

Step 2) Compose your ping response.

Step 3) At the end of the post there is a little box to paste urls for trackbacking. In this box, paste the url you have copied to your clipboard.

Step 4) Submit post. Pinging will ensue.

MANUAL PINGING

Step 1) Compose your ping post in response to an already written interweb item.

Step 2) To your Clipboard, copy the PERMANENT URL to your post (which will usually be listed at the end of the post in a little link labelled "permanent url" or "Permalink" if this is not the case, you may need to do a little digging.

This is an example of what a permalink looks like:

http://palinodeproject.blogspot.com/2007/03/palinode-17.html

note: The permalink contains the name of the post after the date. Hailey posted this in march of 07 and titled it "palinode-17."

Step 3) Add this URL as a comment to the original post with the statement "you've been pinged" (or something like it).

I am sorry if these instructions seem overly complex, but once you do it the first time, it's really easy. And it's so worth it-- it shows the author of the original post that not only did you read what they had to say but it affected you so much that you responded creatively!