Santa Cruz Poets, Santa Cruz Inspiration: Beau Blue

Preparations At her father's bedside Sarah's autumn ear, listening for the northern wind-chime, catches its first faint stirrings. Turning to her eldest son, this last summer thirty-one, who does not hear the morning, "Split and stack that far madrone close to home... I feel October's chill." Against a Stone Bench in St. Michael's Cemetery i. solitude and cold rock cradle the ache of his absence. ii. grit swirls the wind at her ankles, leaves skitter the gravel path. iii. a bubble escapes the pond's edge swans glide the pool’s torpor. iv. eyes closed, she awaits the scrape of footsteps coming for her. Reviewing the Bookstore Massacre And when I asked where they kept The Cummings and Pounds? She pointed lemon lips at me And spurted primly, "Paperbound Poets are on the backside of humor. Aisle thirty-three B!" And that's what I found. Beau Blue (JJ Webb) is the publisher/editor of Blue's Cruzio Cafe, an online e-zine that presents animated avatars of contemporary poets performing. He was co-editor, with Michael McNeilley, of the online e-zine ZeroCity from 1994 to 1998. A performance poet and storyteller, Blue has performed extensively in California, Oregon and Nevada for the last 35 years. View a reading of his poem ‘Reviewing The Bookstore Massacre’ here. Local Poets, Local Inspiration, edited by Robert Sward, appears weekly online and monthly in Santa Cruz Weekly. Selections are by invitation.

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