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*Seattle poet Marion Kimes, 82, dies while traveling in India* by Marjorie Rommel, NWRP President Seattle poet Marion Kimes, a tiny lady who wore a fine Texas drawl and often accompanied her readings on hand drum or tambourine, has died while traveling with her daughter in India. For years, Marion ran Seattles Red Sky Poetry Theater pretty much single-handedly, continuing its long and considerable welcome to poets and audiences alike. She really WAS a Seattle poetry institution, champion of poetry -- of BEAUTY in all its forms -- and maybe the oldest person then on the local poetry circuit: a joyous, fierce, often quite funny voice of kindness and reason, insisting that we poets be mindful of the world around us, engage *in* it and *with* it. In his Splabman blog, Paul refers to a poem Marion wrote for Martin Luther King, in which she says she meant no disrespect for the dead, but if he was going to sin, the fact that his sin was about love was something she could excuse. Among her books of poems are: *Last Years Horse, Choosing the Right Stone, Whirled,* and *Playing With A Full Deck.* She had been in frail health for some time, which is almost as hard to comprehend as it is that she has gone. She was 82. DEDICATION for Portland sculptor M J ANDERSON if I am scattered after death in approaching centuries I should/could/would join marble escarpments with others crushed, squeezed, transformed. then, a quarrier hails his friends, boys, come see this. look here, look what we found - wavy layers, fissures, lesions. mature green with streaks (tenné, Id say). imagine using both faults & sheen, knowing how to cut free some real uncastigated compelling woman, some dark seductive whale of a woman hiding here. lets call *her*, the one who sees headless women, all eyes, saliva, tongue & tears, desire riding the spinal cord, plunging deep between hips & work, all that power gone to stone. this is hers! our marble becomes her &she, she becomes our marble --Marion Kimes from CHOOSING THE NEXT STONE by Marion Kimes (c) 1999
Posted on: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 03:14:31 +0000

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