October dawning
through the cinemaesthetic
on-crushing newsfeed
information deluge
diseases of the human mind
with symptomatic ideologies
ever-presently manifesting
magical pretensions
over and against
the whole kosmos--
emergent emergencies now
pierce the necessary limits
of the limitless
inside out
and a new day begins with
the chorus of crows and warblers
before the beginning
after the end
John Dotson joined the Central Coast community of poets over 45 years ago. For 20 years, he hosted the weekly program Ars Poetica? on KAZU Public Radio, and he has produced many other performance events. He has also taught in many settings and worked as editor with many poets. As poet-in-residence, his book The Enduring Voice, A Tor House Journal, was published in 1987. He is working to complete Singing in My Chains: Hearing Dylan Thomas at the Birth of an Age, for publication in 2020. He serves as a co-host of the Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium series.
through the cinemaesthetic
on-crushing newsfeed
information deluge
diseases of the human mind
with symptomatic ideologies
ever-presently manifesting
magical pretensions
over and against
the whole kosmos--
emergent emergencies now
pierce the necessary limits
of the limitless
inside out
and a new day begins with
the chorus of crows and warblers
before the beginning
after the end
John Dotson joined the Central Coast community of poets over 45 years ago. For 20 years, he hosted the weekly program Ars Poetica? on KAZU Public Radio, and he has produced many other performance events. He has also taught in many settings and worked as editor with many poets. As poet-in-residence, his book The Enduring Voice, A Tor House Journal, was published in 1987. He is working to complete Singing in My Chains: Hearing Dylan Thomas at the Birth of an Age, for publication in 2020. He serves as a co-host of the Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium series.
