Geof Huth
Fourth Car behind a Schoolbus: Schenectady, New York
Memory of a tree bending out from under a front porch and up to the sky, hoping to make do
STOP sign extending from the side of the schoolbus
Overwhelmingly yellow
Flashing lights catching his attention
Tapping out of brake lights, then a steady state
Stopping, stopped, stoppingness, stoppèdness
ellow oran lue
reen ray ed
ellow ellow ellow
Lenny, staring at (not out) the window
Donna, running fingers through her hair
Dewan, finding humor all around him
Clarissa, wondering if the test would come today
Mario, tap-tap-tapping with his foot
Robert, squatting in a ball, back against a pole Joshua, kicking ice with his sneakers
Mallory, running to a stop Krista, spinning, stopping, spinning
Jawad, bouncing a rubber ball Kahel, thinking three things
Larissa, twirling her skirt Jessica, exposing her knees
Elevation on the hill Whether their car brakes will hold
Whether they are paying enough attention The glare of the sun
The other passenger in the car Ice
2 3 4 5 1
3 4 F 1 2
4 5 1 2 3
5 1 2 3 4
Has anyone seen my pencil? What bus is this that rides the road?
Is there a test today? Do you have an extra sandwich?
What do you have for lunch? Did we pass Jawad yet?
Mallory trips The bus hits a traffic cone Donna fails a quiz
Krista skins her knees Two leaves fall, swirling, together Jawad dies
The sound of not hearing Mario counts in circles Snow falls
Five sets of brake lights turn off in a row
The cars begin to slip down the hill
One car turns to the right
A woman slips and falls in the crosswalk
A squirrel falls from a tree
He releases the brakes
A bicycle slips past him quickly, heading into morning
Geof Huth has lived in Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and North and South America, all the while using language for his own purposes. His interest in language turned him into a poet, a visual poet, and a thinker on words. He works words in many media: crayon, object, paint, pen, pencil, pixel, pollen, sound, type, and video. He writes almost daily on visual poetry and related matters at his blog, dbqp: visualizing poetics. His most recent books of poetry are Out of Character (twenty-five typoglyphic visual poems), Longfellow Memoranda (366 tiny poems incorporating the vocabulary of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow), and texistence (300 pwoermds co-written with mIEKAL aND).
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STATES
Scraggly birch growing out of the sidewalkMemory of a tree bending out from under a front porch and up to the sky, hoping to make do
STOP sign extending from the side of the schoolbus
Overwhelmingly yellow
Flashing lights catching his attention
Tapping out of brake lights, then a steady state
Stopping, stopped, stoppingness, stoppèdness
PERCEIVABLE COLORS
reen ray ed
ellow ellow ellow
THE CHILDREN INTERIORIZED
Maria, wearing mother of pearlLenny, staring at (not out) the window
Donna, running fingers through her hair
Dewan, finding humor all around him
Clarissa, wondering if the test would come today
Mario, tap-tap-tapping with his foot
THE CHILDREN NOT YET IN EVIDENCE
Mallory, running to a stop Krista, spinning, stopping, spinning
Jawad, bouncing a rubber ball Kahel, thinking three things
Larissa, twirling her skirt Jessica, exposing her knees
CONCERNS OF THE DRIVERS
Whether they are paying enough attention The glare of the sun
The other passenger in the car Ice
THE NUMBERS WEAVING THROUGH MARIO’S HEAD
1 2 3 4 52 3 4 5 1
3 4 F 1 2
4 5 1 2 3
5 1 2 3 4
THE CHILDREN’S VOICES, IN THE FORM OF QUESTIONS
Is there a test today? Do you have an extra sandwich?
What do you have for lunch? Did we pass Jawad yet?
UNEXPECTATIONS OF THE DAY’S FUTURE
Krista skins her knees Two leaves fall, swirling, together Jawad dies
The sound of not hearing Mario counts in circles Snow falls
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE BUS PULLS IN ITS STOP SIGN
The traffic light changes to greenFive sets of brake lights turn off in a row
The cars begin to slip down the hill
One car turns to the right
A woman slips and falls in the crosswalk
A squirrel falls from a tree
He releases the brakes
A bicycle slips past him quickly, heading into morning
Geof Huth has lived in Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and North and South America, all the while using language for his own purposes. His interest in language turned him into a poet, a visual poet, and a thinker on words. He works words in many media: crayon, object, paint, pen, pencil, pixel, pollen, sound, type, and video. He writes almost daily on visual poetry and related matters at his blog, dbqp: visualizing poetics. His most recent books of poetry are Out of Character (twenty-five typoglyphic visual poems), Longfellow Memoranda (366 tiny poems incorporating the vocabulary of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow), and texistence (300 pwoermds co-written with mIEKAL aND).
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