Entomology and Etymology

[Doreen Peri]

Entomology and etymology.
Both have always
been to me, intriguing!

(Though, no, I have
no affinity for bugs,
I do, it's true,
have an affinity
for meaning.)

Trouble is,
I often get the two confused
and can't tell which is which!

So, often I've been forced
to eat my moths and
caterpillars, switch
my mode from syllables
to a crawling itch.

If I've confused you, too,
I know you'll tell me.
Willy ya?

I don't mean to beg
or ask you for
too much
or bitch
to know your
thoughts on this.

Don't be cilia.

[judih]

silly celiac disease
so uncomfortable eating wheat crackers and cheese
we never got along

&

etymologically speaking, i go to the root
before i agree to a bee sting
i wanna know its mama

[Doreen Peri]

words bug me.

[Zlatko Waterman]

Mr. Og Nash has nothing on you, m'lady:

So, often I've been forced
to eat my moths and
caterpillars, switch
my mode from syllables
to a crawling itch.

There's a real syllabic dance going on there . . .


--Z

[Doreen Peri]

Oh man!!! You've made my day, Zlatko! No.. you've made my week and month and year.... hell, my life! ha! He's one of my all time faves! Such a comment from you? I feel like i've arrived! Now, if the New Yorker only agreed with you! Thanks for your kind words, N!

[Zlatko Waterman]

The NEW YORKER only agrees on relatives.

For instance, if you were a cartoonist and graphic novelist like Art Spiegelman ( whom I admire), wouldn't you find it handy to have your wife as the cover editor of THE NEW YORKER?

Francoise Mouly.

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/stor ... 50,00.html




--Z

p.s. You deserve every word of that praise, Madame D.



( self-portrait by Art Spiegelman)

[Zlatko Waterman]

Dear Dor:

I send you ( and all) the following link, not because Enrico is a poet like you, but because his work has the whimsy, the ardor, the energy and the good humor and love ( with sometimes a delicate neurotic, inward-looking twist) that yours does.

Enrico Casarosa is a Pixar Studios animation artist whose creative energies overflow ( fortunately for us) into thousands of sketches, cartoons, comic stories, narratives and observations. His blog website can be found here:

http://enricocasarosa.com/wordpress.1/

Enrico carries the force of a hurricane made of several million jujubes. I have rarely seen so much energy in the service of probing Good. By which I mean EC is a force for good in the art world.

I also mention him because he has designed t-shirts for the 11th Annual SketchCrawl, a real 21st century event.

http://www.gfxartist.com/general/general_news/131106

Here is the t-shirt site:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/casarosa/43439495/


Enrico was one of my fellow "interview-ees" on Susan Henderson's blog this past summer.

http://litpark.com/2006/08/31/enrico-casarosa/





( a kitchen in Venice by Enrico Casarosa)

A final link:

A sketchcrawling story by Enrico can be found here:


http://www.enricocasarosa.com/UNABpage1.html


--Z

[Ann Bingham]

Doreen I have admired your writing for years, so glad you are still writing and that I stopped in.

Origins
back to the beginning of
one language
one thought
one mind.

Love lots
Deb.