Glenn Ingersoll works for the Berkeley Public Library where he hosts Clearly Meant, a reading & interview series. He has two chapbooks, City Walks (broken boulder) and Fact (Avantacular). He keeps two blogs, LoveSettlement and Dare I Read. Recent work has appeared in Futures Trading, Neologism, and Poetry East.
The Dance
found in the UC Berkeley library database
part one: what's dancing
dancing beasts bees chimpanzee
dancing class devils diplomats
dancing druids dust on the rafters
dancing feather horses of Acoma imps of the wine
dancing kettle ledge longer stronger madly backwards
dancing mistress mouse palm tree pieces prophets of Malawi
dancing with the family with wolves without danger without music
part two: places of dancing
dancing against the darkness at Ground Zero at Lughnasa
dancing at the edge of the world at the Rascal Fair
dancing in the Inns of Court in the moon in the sun
dancing on a volcano on coral on ice on the desk tops
dancing on knives in chains the skies
Could That Really Be Me?
found in the UC Berkeley library database
Could a monetary base rule have prevented the Great Depression?
Could Bacon have written the plays?
Could there be a medical basis for declining SAT scores?
Couldn't say, might be love . . .
Above the human landscape
found in the UC Berkeley library database
Above the battle
Above the bottom line
Above the bright blue sky
Above the dark tumult
Above the glaciers in the Canadian Rockies
Above the grave of John Odenswurge, a cosmopolite
Under a mantle of blue
found in the UC Berkeley library database
Under a blanket of blue
Under a willow tree
Under a changing moon
Under a thousand eyes
Under a colored cap
Under a soprano sky
Under a cruel star
Under a sky of incense
Under a glass bell
Under a sickle moon
Under a grudging sun
Under a monsoon cloud
Under a lilac-bleeding star
Under a mighty oak
Under a mantle of stars
Under a mantle of stars
Under a mighty oak
Under a lilac-bleeding star
Under a monsoon cloud
Under a grudging sun
Under a sickle moon
Under a glass bell
Under a sky of incense
Under a cruel star
Under a soprano sky
Under a colored cap
Under a thousand eyes
Under a changing moon
Under a willow tree
Under a blanket of blue
We are all so interdependent that every action by each one of us
affects in some way or other the welfare and destiny of the rest
found in the database of the UCBerkeley library
We are going
We are here
We are many
We are one!
We are a part of history
We are a separate people
We are accountable
We are all close
We are all guilty
We are all healers
We are all lesbians
We are all lovers
We are all part of one another
We are all poets, really
We are all POWs
We are Alaskans
We are all the Black boy
We are bosses ourselves
We are called human
We are Chicanos
We are Dow Corning
We are everywhere
We are forsaken
We are going back home
We are going to make the lousiest chop suey in town
We are having a baby
We are innocent
We are integrated and wonderfully made
We are losing our rights
We are manufacturing
We are many people living together
We are not afraid
We are not alone
We are not divided
We are not French!
We are not in this together
We are one voice
We are optimists
We are ordinary women
We are poets, too!
We are still married
We are talking about homes
We are the builders of a new world
We are the dead
We are the echoes
We are the fire
We are the future
We are the living proof
We are the makers of music
We are the original people
We are the people our mothers warned us against
We are the stories we tell
We are the wounded
We are thy children
We are utopia
We are voyagers, discoverers
We are your sisters
We are your sons
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