The Warm Black Sky
When the sparrow
strikes the clear pane
it is afraid and strange
and then elated too
mistaking its fall
into the warm black sky
for its mother’s wings.
- Lance La Roucque -
Heat
All the polar bears in this town
drink gasoline.
It’s in their pee, too,
they think,
how they can escape the accumulation
of matches & lighters—
the fires to come
and to dream
their encumbered bodies
unleashed
down deep
beneath the ocean’s
ice
- Lance La Roucque -
I found Lance La Roucque’s serialist poetry to be very interesting. I was pretty confused about serialist poetry, I understood it but while writing poetry i tend keep the rhymings rules in my head. While investigating the serialist artists i came across Lance La Roucque’s poerty and found that his poerty was playful and nice, he was breaking the rules of rhyme but instead his poetry was making sense in a crazy way. … All THE POLAR BEARS IN THIS TOWN DRINK GASOLIN*… !?!?!? .. that line makes me say what!?!? … polar bears… Gasoline!?!/.. theres no connection.. or is there.. further reading the rest of his poem i tried to make assumption what Lance La Roucque was saying during his poem. The fun thing i found about serialist poems was that teh poetry is abstract, there are many different meaning you could pull out from a serialist poem but the question remains .. is that really what the artist was trying to project to his/her audience? was that the message?
Lance La Roucque is known for his poetry and interest in natrue: ” The writer and nature”, this Canadian serialist artist studying anatomy, psychology and history.
