{"id":4881,"date":"2024-12-01T18:11:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T22:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/?page_id=4881"},"modified":"2025-12-01T16:54:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:54:21","slug":"2024-listen-you-noodlers-not-for-catfish","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/poetry-archive\/2024-listen-you-noodlers-not-for-catfish\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 \u201clisten you noodlers (not for catfish)\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Parked Wind Turbine, Conley<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u201clisten you noodlers (not for catfish)\u201d<\/strong><\/h1>\n

listen you noodlers<\/span><\/p>\n

the poem is the message<\/span><\/p>\n

someone said it better than me<\/span><\/p>\n

it didn\u2019t work if you don\u2019t get it<\/span><\/p>\n

you do the thinking or go read\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

some more cummings or sandburg<\/span><\/p>\n

we leave the bones on the shore<\/span><\/p>\n

they could be the leftovers\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

of ships or the fish<\/span><\/p>\n

there\u2019s fish to catch and<\/span><\/p>\n

you can just catch one in\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

your hands and you keep asking for a<\/span><\/p>\n

turn or lesson and i painted\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

you the picture and i gave you<\/span><\/p>\n

my words and the pieces and<\/span><\/p>\n

the puzzle were left on the table\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

and the fish is in the water<\/span><\/p>\n

and it\u2019s for you to<\/span><\/p>\n

think or remember and that\u2019s my magic<\/span><\/p>\n

sometimes the only magic that works<\/span><\/p>\n

isn\u2019t in my hands it\u2019s in yours<\/span><\/p>\n

Mike Sluchinski writes for all the broken and boarded up people out there, the chipped mirrors, the ruffled feathers, and the less than fifths of anything worth drinking. He\u2019s currently co-writing a chapbook with his Thai Astrologer about prayer and fasting, except for fasting. Dancer, aspiring mathlete, and part time Shyriiwook translator\u2014currently seeking full time work! Gratefully acknowledges the Cheryl and Henry Kloppenburg Foundation and the Freefall Lit. Society for their tangible support of writers! Very gratefully published by Poemeleon, The Ekphrastic Review, MMPP (Meow Meow Pow Pow), Kelp Journal, \u2018the fib review\u2019, Eternal Haunted Summer, Syncopation Lit. Journal, South Florida Poetry Journal (SOFLOPOJO), Freefall!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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