Selected Excerpts from Section One
Excerpt from Austin by Paul Richmond
I am talking about Austin Texas The city That Texas Wants to put a wall around So that it doesn’t spread
Excerpt from Poems in The Window of the Austin Motel by Joyce Gullickson
I’ve aligned them my children checked their appearance for wrinkles and slouching. They stand tall eager to begin their journey
Excerpt from Free-Tailed Bats Awake by Robert Wynne
Tiny bundles of dark fur rise in the dusk wind
to within inches of my face before turning east to float the river
on air. Night is a hungry time when you’ve spent all day
sleeping in the dark confines of a bridge.
Excerpt from Austin IS Weird by Bob Mud
Synapses are firing all over the place, thoughts are lit up as if by little fairies with wands of words sparking consciousness between uncountable poets at open mics every night of the week
Excerpt from Austin Dreaming by Connie Lane Williams
And I said, “I want this, I want this summer like a man wants a woman I want to dive headlong into the Austin nights of Coffee house lights and love warming on a back burner I want to court her, stroke the edges of her dream time Slide my fingers down the seams, make love slowly Or wantonly give myself completely to the Austin dream.”
Excerpt from Not Your Average Garden Tour by Mary Dallas
I float on clouds of wonder through open gates and over swirling blue walkways, following tuxedoed flamingoes and emerging from hubcap tunnels into cathedrals that celebrate the imagination of South Austin yardists.
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