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A Namenga is a linked poem of 15 one-liners. One link of the poem has to include the name of either a person or a place. It can either be written solo or with up to three partners. The Namenga was created by ai li on the 22 February 1997.
Copyright © ai li 1997
EXAMPLES : SUNDAY ROAST by ai li **************************************************___________________________________
A solo Namenga by ai li
the sunday roast called billy crying child someone hid his dummy immigrant tailor has night for companion chess player stopping for cappuccino organ grinder hearing him through mist green stick the dog colour blind faded curtains by the south facing window lilacs someone comes to steal them gunshot - nike on the gravel path visitors grandma puts her teeth in sweet compote from a broken jar sweeping to forget a name in stone familiar ferry boat leaving, a full moon love song for maria
Copyright © ai li 1997
A solo Namenga by ai li
the cat without her kittens on Mother's Day window panes of rain daffodils that won't last a day the guilt in a brief phone call pork chop for one she sits by a warmed oven on the sideboard overripe banana the card by the mantelpiece years old an old woman sings leak for tune early dark a banging shutter remembering April in Paris a love so deep time didn't matter war and separation empty courtyard peeling wallpaper in the children's nursery by the bed a cracked glass rusty hairpin
Copyright © ai li 1997 _____________________________________________________________________ A Namenga between ai li and Alexis K. Rotella
sunday at four canasta, anyone? Dick Cavett shows up dressed as an elf the child hears its' giggle invisible friend the sphinx on top of the car blinks premiere of the new kitsch store a shrunken head in the bathroom witch doctor buying a pressure cooker seeing the goiter before her face pearl necklace turning black oy oy oy the oysters were toxic a clambake with sweet potato pie what I dreamed strewn on the beach the priest blowing conch sea urchin smelling of sex virgin telling lies
[Published SUNDAY AT FOUR, Spring 1997,Louisiana, USA] Copyright © ai li and Alexis K. Rotella 1997 ____________________________________________________________________
A Namenga between ai li and Fay Aoyagi
he waits on Pont Neuf for her a picture bride scans solemn faces at the wharf after the wedding he leaves for war July 4th, 1967 postmarked Saigon silent on an airfield pine boxes white sand beach bones left behind a crow sits on a torn snapshot he only talks to ghosts and himself night comes early to an empty room across the street a flickering tree the man on the bench has one leg debate over a brain death heartbeats sleepless a wrong decision button only for the Commander A-bomb the onset of Parkinson's Disease
Copyright © ai li and Fay Aoyagi 1997 ____________________________________________________________________
A Namenga between Fay Aoyagi and Sue Stanford
fear of AIDS a prostitute in new Congo some are longer terms chameleon her mystery novel the last chapter the undertaker is measured by his tailor abandoned airfield tall pampas grass wet with dew the blazing meteorite showing her power again Mt. Everest breaks through the clouds unbroken sleep dragon yawns tiger watches around the clock they machine shoes out to a detention center in weak sunlight snowdropsnow drops church renovation on hold baby swallows a tower of ivory tusk slips against tusk sold out the circus troupe without animals
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