tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61055142108936600142011-11-27T19:15:01.776-05:00Billie MaciunasTo connect with new and old friends in the arts.Billiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09746036937019473725noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6105514210893660014.post-72675068431536261152009-11-30T12:40:00.004-05:002009-11-30T13:27:32.201-05:00Excerpts from Unsettled Oranges by Billie Hutching Maciunas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EAziPn5VJyc/SxQDVJuxtcI/AAAAAAAAACs/theyArDz7IE/s1600/Passport+photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EAziPn5VJyc/SxQDVJuxtcI/AAAAAAAAACs/theyArDz7IE/s320/Passport+photo.jpg" width="237" /></a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photo by Hollis Melton</span><br /></div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Faithless domain</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of heavy lassitude</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the vertiginous</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">thrust of some cooing</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">expectation</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">she speaks</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> drowning, eh?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">she speaks of slow settled</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">drowning in the daystream</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brilliant panoply of professional</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">momentum</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">took two baths</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">today and still</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">stink the voice of</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">irreverent instinct</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><br /><my is="" magic="" sword,="" the="" vision=""></my></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">my vision is the magic sword,</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">vision of lusty bewilderment</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">she wonders how the points</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">meet without touching</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">no merit has granted</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">her reprisal from</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the immense trill</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">captured inside grand piano</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">no fey insight of doom</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">remanded her flexible</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">fingers in the art of</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">playing Couperin</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and viewing</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the unclassifieds</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">through her kaleidoscope.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://billiemaciunas.blogspot.com/2009/11/unsettled-oranges.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unsettled Oranges</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><br /></span><br /></span><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6105514210893660014-7267506843153626115?l=billiemaciunas.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Billiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09746036937019473725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6105514210893660014.post-15777358336688554882009-11-24T14:52:00.029-05:002010-04-03T17:06:40.440-04:00Unsettled Oranges<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EAziPn5VJyc/SxF0-sdUR0I/AAAAAAAAABM/jpmxbDG0NbY/s1600/Unsettled.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="342" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EAziPn5VJyc/SxF0-sdUR0I/AAAAAAAAABM/jpmxbDG0NbY/s640/Unsettled.jpg" width="231" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">This is a limited (500 printed) edition of poetry written in the wake of the death of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Maciunas">George Maciunas</a>, founder of Twentieth Century avant garde group Fluxus, in 1978. The book is dedicated to Madame George.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: small;">To obtain a signed copy, please send $12 (domestic) or $15 (international) to :</span></div></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Billie Maciunas</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">10152 Berry Field Ct.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Orlando, FL. 32821</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You may buy the book also through Pay Pal</span><br /><br /><br /></div><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick"><input type="hidden" name="business" value="billiemac@earthlink.net"><input type="hidden" name="lc" value="US"><input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Unsettled Oranges"><input type="hidden" name="button_subtype" value="products"><input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"><input type="hidden" name="bn" value="PP-BuyNowBF:btn_buynowCC_LG.gif:NonHosted"><table><tr><td><input type="hidden" name="on0" value="Prices">Prices</td></tr><tr><td><select name="os0"> <option value="Domestic">Domestic $12.00</option> <option value="International">International $15.00</option></select> </td></tr></table><input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"><input type="hidden" name="option_select0" value="Domestic"><input type="hidden" name="option_amount0" value="12.00"><input type="hidden" name="option_select1" value="International"><input type="hidden" name="option_amount1" value="15.00"><input type="hidden" name="option_index" value="0"><input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1"></form><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6105514210893660014-1577735833668855488?l=billiemaciunas.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Billiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09746036937019473725noreply@blogger.com2