Enga mellom fjella

This place

This place

This place has never been published,
wrote about nor photographed.
It's destination remains unknown,
the author never mentioned.

This place is never mentioned
when we speak of becoming published,
when we look through photographs
of what we know, of what was known.

What can be known
if it is never mentioned,
never published,
seldom photographed.

Our childhood tears not photographed,
our bleeding, bruises still unknown.
His drinking never mentioned.
Her diary, dead with her, unpublished.

This unmentioned place; this unpublished place,
never photographed remains unknown.

© 2008 Kåre Enga [165.311] 2008-10-24

I set in Ballroom D at the Holiday Inn while poets read and came up with the first lines. It turned into a tetrina (may be my first). It will come out at 7 pm today in a special issue of Slumgullion.

ME:

Thursday: went to FedEx/Kinkos from 9 pm to 1 am working on my 'zine HELLGATE'SCRAPBOOK (and yes, that can be read two ways. . I used rose petals and leaves to provide texture and design, printed in color then black and white, then placed transparencies over them. It work out well, except for a couple places that are hard to read .... With all the fussing (which adds cost) it came to about $23/50 for two sided 11 x 17 white paper. I fold it into 8ths (5 1/2 x 4 1/4; the size of Gzaibun 1).

I included blog entries from both "Enga mellom Fjella" and "Nurture your Nature", my "Sentinel" poem, a hand written note, a short list of rejected "Sushi". I arranged the transparencies in different directions ... ... to give it a more "artistic" feel.

Next time (scheduled for November 22nd) I will do it differently. Too much last minute work. But ... so much easier than micro-booklets the size of Sushi.

Drug myself out of bed in time to get to the Festival. Took a nice walk along the river in the crisp air. Ended up at the wrong hotel. But ... I was close so I got more exercise.

I went to the publishing (traditional/p.o.d./self-publishing) one; the Bent Grass poets' reading; the UM profs poetry reading; the short film "Dry Rain" with writer/guest Peter Fromm.

Enjoyed them all.

Shared "Another holiday" with Brian Blanchfield since I used a line of his poetry as a prompt. Got him to sign his book I'd purchased. His poetry reads better than what it looks like on the page. Very different from my stuff though.

Gave 'zine to Blanchfield, Volkman, Pape and others.

Saturday: managed to get to the library at the end of a presentation on publishing, listened to some poets/writers reading, watched the Richard Hugo project perform. I'm still dragging, but I met more people, bought a couple books, gave out some 'zines, gave a business card to the mayor, John Engen.

Montana: 57º at 18:00.

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