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AHA On-line Books
2008

A FILM OF WORDS
Symbiotic Multi-genre Poetry

Jane Reichhold
Werner Reichhold

 

 
   

Table of Contents

Jane's works are in italic;
Werner's are in normal fonts.

Introduction

MESSAGES FROM MARS

ADDING 2 TO TWO

OPEN ME CAREFULLY

TWO WAYS ABOUT IT

MILLENNIUM MUSIC

HOW DARE THEY?

HOUSES OF THE HEART

WINDBLOWN AROMATIC HEIRS

HER HYMN

PRIZE POEM

FOOD FOR THOUGHTS

A SUITCASE OF KANSAS

INTO MY HEART

AN OCEAN OF IDEAS

PUBIC CRIMES

BILL'S BILLS

GAMESTERS

SENIOR PICTURES

   

 

MESSAGES FROM MARS

Excerpted from the
Santa Rosa Repressed Democrat,
May 30, 2008

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Point Arena –
            On Sunday night residents six miles south of Point Arena noticed a glowing object in the sky. As they watched it got larger and larger and brighter.
            It seemed to be headed for the hills just above Saunders Reef. Suddenly the light fog was completely illuminated with a clear white light. Persons closest to the area reported hearing a humming or buzzing noise – some said it was as if the air was vibrating.
            Dogs began to howl, not unusual in this area, but cats and quail all ran into hiding. Some neighbors called each other to confirm what they had seen and others called 911.
            By the time the sheriff’s deputy arrived on the scene everything was quiet and he found nothing on the hillside except the Indian ponies, normally there, were standing at attention facing inward in a circle. The lawmen saw no lights or anything unusual and claimed there was no buzzing sound.

AD:
You know, being the postmaster at Cape Canaveral;  just got the message that we’ll probably soon coming up with new kinds of electromagnetic missile-mail stamps.

BC:
What will be the design like – and the price?

AD:
It’s all set up in nano-technique. You gotta get to be clear that there will be no more clerks to chatter with. As soon as you put your mail in the box, then it reads the sender’s and addressee’s names and cashes the postage in from your bank account. The “picture” you asked for will become a sort of rudimentary imagination, left over from times when functional art in the US was a truly desired subject.
Well, the price of postage depends on how much you avoid critique on the government. Naturally, the good news is that some mail will be for free, but other messages may coast you both, arms and legs, Love.

BC:
So we’ll expect lots of recycled limps for fuel? You certainly are deep into contemporary thinking, Adie. The “recyclomat” could be placed beside the gas station and the new six-cylinder engines will run as clean as perfumed armpits.
By the way, what will be the situation at the Mars or at other planets out to get in contact with us? You know, the name Mars goes back to the well respected god of business –

 

beyond all doubt
two loved gardens with music
deep stellar years
narrating the island of sirens
the squaredness of a CD

those equals
power to take hold where
kindred signs
god surmounts the animals
muts with olives in their blood

we knew light
ripened in eyes glowing
in which down low
holds the surge of the chest
in a twist of loin's blindness

toward the slight
otherwise stone of procreation
shoulder's plunge
glistening fur bursts forth
contours of no place like stars

wind of her brow
unruffled swift beast shapes
a garment of breasts
change fixed on the farthest point
stormed with the nymph-hunting dogs

 

AD:
There are problems, because each message will be censored and arrive with the warning “don’t open, several viruses found in this message,” and sure, the clever god’s organism out there don’t like to go along with such little bagging guys. We’ll work on it; let the Congress investigate the suspicious subjects where there is no answer yet.

 

Later that night one person reported a change in the sound and then shortly afterwards an oval of small red lights went west over the ocean and away from the land.
            By daylight an area of the pasture was found scorched in a circle of about 100 feet in diameter. Downhill from the circle was a scraped place where something heavy had been dragged with enough force to remove the earth down to bedrock.
            The military was contacted and they claim they have no evidence of an unidentified object entering or leaving the coastal airspace on that day. Government officials suggest the phenomena occurred due to the abnormality of the slightly foggy conditions on the coast and its residents.

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