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The Year of the Virtual Feather 

5/29/2015

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It was the year of not being able to find the birds in the sky
And the sky was everywhere scored by starling cloud     With starting gun
Those who listened faithfully could locate the patterns they made
As the sky was everywhere and the music leaked thru from the other side

It was the year when the other side of everywhere first began to take shape
It took it from the age of sentiment and from the utopian impulse
From flowering cherries and the conquest of space
It took shape and made with it an aviary resembling planet earth 

It was the year avairy earth graffiti first appeared in Brooklyn    Then Paris  Bogata  Akbar 
Entire city blocks were painted overnight with the thrilling songs of migration 
Hundreds of The Friends of Aviary Earth groups were formed on Facebook
The virtual feather became the defacto trademark of the moment

It was the year of the birth and death of the virtual feather 
This much I remember   The sky was everywhere filled with conquering sentiment 
Music leaked thru the flowering trademarks    It took shape 
and made with it hundereds of impulsive songs resembling planet earth

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Jean-Paul Pecqueur

Jean-Paul Pecqueur’s first book was titled The Case Against Happiness. A chapbook To Embrace Sea Monsters was recently published by Greying Ghost Press. Originally from the pacific northwest, He currently teaches creative writing to fine arts students at the Pratt Institute and lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
http://www.h-ngm-n.com/17/jean-paul-pecqueur.html





 



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    Hi. I'm Joanna Fuhrman. This is a prose poetry/flash fiction blog in conversation with my  serial prose poem "The Year of Yellow Butterflies" (The Year Of Yellow Butterflies, Hanging Loose Press 2015). I had fun writing these poems about fads and trends from imaginary pasts. If you would like to add your own section, write me and I can post it (along with a short bio). Start with "It was the year...."  
    "In this extraordinary book, Fuhrman seamlessly oscillates between illusion and reality, childhood and maturity, the animal kingdom (a "babbling...walrus," a "creaky bird," a "bunny rabbit") and technology ("a baby's rebooted brains," "Virgil's internet").  She gives new life to the prose poem.  The Year of Yellow Butterflies is killer--not only Fuhrman's best book to date, but her most poignant.  "--Noelle Kocot

    "With the impish charm of an illusionist and the dazzling patter of a tummler in a Borscht Belt resort, Joanna Fuhrman suspends our expectations in The Year of Yellow Butterflies, sending us head over heels into zones of cosmic and technological bafflement and sudden parabolic grief....in this book full of brilliant predicaments and pleasures."—Rachel Loden
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