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Author:

Britt Fleming

 
Pen name:
Britt Fleming
Location:
North Mankato, MN
Name:
Charles Brittain Fleming
My site:
http://www.northography.com
Bio:
Britt Fleming lives in North Mankato, MN. He retired from the US Air Force, and is currently taking a break from the corporate world. He has run Northography.com since April 2006. You can find his writing in Whistling Shade and elsewhere on the web.

Please feel free to contact him at this address:

fleming.britt(at)gmail.com -- Place "at" symbol where indicated when sending email.

 
 
 
My Reponses
 
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09/06/2010 Think About It It. The thing, -wait- what’s a thing? Let’s...
08/29/2010 To a Summer Cold Go away, Crud. You're not welcome here....
08/22/2010 Woman, Tomato, Man Look back along the vine and you’ll find a...
08/08/2010 An Inviting Abyss Carry the offering. Look for someone to...
07/21/2010 The Insatiable Muse In my dream *was it a dream?* You were the...
07/18/2010 Lilith, A Poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti Please consider this poem, written by...
07/08/2010 Queen of the Night (Modified) (Modifications made to S4, L3-4) Look...
07/06/2010 Queen of the Night Look through the lens of the moment. She...
07/04/2010 Fireworks Peg has the news on. I never have the TV on...
07/02/2010 Beneath my Boughs Your great-grandfather kissed girls your...
06/21/2010 Legs I woke this morning, this Monday morning,...
06/13/2010 Night Wash Mary sits in the laundromat, thinking of...
06/08/2010 Wash Night Tom thought of Mary often. The strand of...
06/02/2010 The Names of Darkness Black hole. Matter sucked into Dead...
05/23/2010 Wolfwalker The Wolfwalker walks in the quiet night She...
05/17/2010 The World is a Ball After the evening breeze blows the brown...
05/10/2010 To my best fan Sally - Delmon Young A bowed head may Pray for peace Cry for...
04/26/2010 Firewolf Wolf sees fire at night Smells marrow, fat...
04/11/2010 Eye Sight It’s in the eyes. The intensity of...
04/08/2010 LifeCycle Born as bubbles rising from...
03/28/2010 Afloat Memory floats from past to future. The...
03/21/2010 A Hymn for the Vernal Equinox (Raise your glasses around the...
03/17/2010 St. Patrick's Day St. Patrick’s Day 2010 I, _____state your...
04/19/2009 The marginal ramblings of a web administrator about to take leave Taking leave - also known as vacation,...
04/13/2009 Last Word I’d like to thank all members of...
04/06/2009 Sauerkraut is a Potent Mistress The title of a poem can get your attention,...
04/04/2009 Reflections on a Spring Flood We are ruled by water. But- as if gods...
03/29/2009 To the People of the Red River Ancient Norsemen believed in an outer world,...
03/22/2009 Falling into March Wind You stand there with a grin The same smile...
03/21/2009 Explain Minnesota Winter to a Southerner Tell them about ice-fishing. If the eyes...
03/17/2009 The Boy from Oy There once was a boy from Oy, who really...
03/15/2009 Ruminations of a Bivalve Mollusk I will never come out of my shell. It’s...
03/08/2009 For Jennifer and Will I read this at an oyster roast on Skidaway...
03/01/2009 For a Child In response to the look of wonder Of...
02/27/2009 Dear S., I still dream about you. I see an image of...
02/15/2009 Red Lady Rising Red lady, red...
02/11/2009 Ask to be Heard Now, open your eyes and speak the following...
02/04/2009 One with the Other With the words of the Druid, the oak takes...
02/01/2009 This Tree, This Truth Ask the Druid to place the oak between your...
01/27/2009 Between You and Me I will never tell you how to feel or how to...
01/18/2009 Stage Fright The face in the mirror is immaculate. Not a...
01/11/2009 Happiness is a Warm Spaceship There is a coldness that begins in my gut,...
01/04/2009 There is a Man Looking out of a window. Dark blue eyes...
12/30/2008 Embracement To keep herself warm at night, she holds...
12/28/2008 Merry Christmas, Bruce The flash, the heat, a house in...
12/21/2008 December Dusk Late afternoon Golden glow through...
12/20/2008 All I Have to Say Late afternoon Golden glow through the...
12/14/2008 Sketches in an Intimate Venue I wrote your name on my arm last year with...
12/11/2008 Omens Lately, I noticed my nails growing faster...
12/07/2008 Starchild Another source of light Crawls across the...
11/26/2008 Thanksgiving Thanks for poetry, and thank you for sharing...
11/23/2008 The Shepherd I pull back the curtain to see my...
11/17/2008 Postmortem I’ve finally transmigrated from the...
11/10/2008 Every Morning Vang walks to the mailbox, raises the...
11/06/2008 When I am President You will never elect me. I’m much too honest...
10/27/2008 Neither Shall You Covet It was the sideways smile, a notion in your...
10/19/2008 Ghost in the Toyota I drive a pickup down the road, thinking...
10/12/2008 Encounter on Highway 84 Jimmy Ray Thompson pulls over several...
10/05/2008 Marry Me Marry me marry me marry me shoot me into...
09/28/2008 Salmon Spawn in the Cascade River We appear in pairs with lust to...
09/26/2008 1513 King James of Scotland died at Flodden...
09/17/2008 Soldier On each peak you sight the ideal, your...
09/15/2008 Commentary, Grand Marais I’m writing to you from a studio cabin 14...
09/07/2008 Storm Maker The conditions are perfect. High...
09/01/2008 The Storm A child born of heat rises, building...
08/29/2008 Back from Italy Italy is a gorgeous place, but it was time...
08/24/2008 Fear, Obscured by Dust Where he really is In this...
08/20/2008 A Bottle of Barbera Did I tell you the wine is excellent here?...
08/19/2008 Another Good Day I’ve only been here a few days, and it...
08/17/2008 Sabbatical in Piemonte Please, bear with me. My sister Marie bought...
08/11/2008 Rock and Water When water takes rock, it goes around, not...
08/06/2008 American Death Poem: Two Tomato is fruit, only more, beating heart...
08/05/2008 American Death Poem: One Too impatient to wait for the end, David...
08/04/2008 Anna What were you thinking when you...
08/01/2008 The Test Has Changed The evil psychologist administers an...
08/01/2008 Psycheval
07/30/2008 How to Murder Your Muse You will first need to purchase some basic...
07/28/2008 Made Up These words were once sentences and...
07/25/2008 NightSong Nine o'clock holds me in her arms, dark...
07/15/2008 The Juggling Act As a younger man, hopes hovered as spheres...
07/13/2008 Some might write sideways
07/09/2008 West of the River There is an isle of pleasure, where...
07/05/2008 Stand Up Comedy Good evening, good evening, heh heh heh....
07/01/2008 It's a Journey The older I get, The more I look like...
06/29/2008 The Art of Poetry In order to learn to read or write a poem,...
06/24/2008 One and Zero All things are one. Doves coo in...
06/20/2008 A Walk on the Beach
06/19/2008 Rendezvous on Selby and Kent The professor lifted a case of rum from the...
06/17/2008 Your Life Individually wrapped slices of American...
06/16/2008 Do You Wonder Why I Am Quiet?
06/15/2008 Passion Play When you are ready to nail yourself to the...
06/12/2008 Gifts We receive gifts from others happy to know...
06/11/2008 A Marriage by the Lake She measured the depth of his eyes, the...
06/11/2008 The Interpretation of a Dream When two voices meet in a dream, they are...
06/09/2008 Contemplation on a Bowl of Pho Pho is Vietnamese noodle soup. Unlike many...
06/05/2008 Waiting for Recycling It is warm in the fertile pile, Living...
06/02/2008 The View From Above Heavy stones hold us to the world, But...
05/28/2008 I Guess We're in Love
05/22/2008 On Donegal Cliffs
05/19/2008 Where Shall We Go?
05/16/2008 The Probability of Parallel Circuits
05/15/2008 Be Kind to Animals Your cabin in the woods lies on a...
05/14/2008 Dissolution (By Britt Fleming and Ama SoHam) I want...
05/11/2008 Mother's Day At the intersection of Highway 169 and...
05/11/2008 No New Messages I sit here on the cusp of day, considering...
05/09/2008 The End of the Universe I watch the world recede before me. Time...
05/08/2008 Brain Martini We float in fresh lake water, stripped bare...
05/01/2008 I Will Never Say Anything That is not True Everything that enters the senses bears its...
04/25/2008 His Beautiful Death The
04/16/2008 Why I Don't Write Poems (in response to Wendy) Because I don't...
04/16/2008 I think we have forgotten how cardinals bless the buds in May and...
04/14/2008 The difference between poetry and drawing Lines drawn on paper. We recognize some as...
04/10/2008 Write whatever you want, anything is better than television Another American sentence. Go ahead, try...
04/10/2008 Drunk madman thinks it's spring again, runs down street naked in freezing rain. An American sentence, or Haiku. Anyway, 17...
04/09/2008 The Effects of Fermentation on Vertebrates A day of raking lawns in sun opened windows...
04/06/2008 We Just Want to Sleep Do you ever have nights where every sound is...
04/06/2008 The Conversion of Mass into Energy I found you floating on a bed of...
04/05/2008 The Art of Oil Painting Your face promises something more. Your...
04/05/2008 The Techniques of Linear Perspective Take all the lines on earth, tie them...
04/04/2008 WIR LEBEN IM EI (BY GüNTHER GRASS): A TRANSLATION(2) (I thank Sharon and Ike for their...
04/03/2008 Wir Leben Im Ei (by Günther Grass): A Translation Please feel free to scrutinize my attempt at...
04/03/2008 Plays Well with Others There is no beauty left in these...
04/03/2008 April's Fool This folly of effort must soon end, This...
03/29/2008 In Ovum Temporis Jenelle sat in quite meditation. Several...
03/29/2008 Recycled Porcelain bowl from her first wedding, now...
03/27/2008 About the Egg From top or bottom, this comfortable...
03/25/2008 About the Egg I just wanted to clear up a few things about...
03/23/2008 A Taste for Life When you first had me, I was shielded by...
03/20/2008 Retaeht Drusba America is waiting for a savior to free the...
03/16/2008 Empty Stage Good evening. There is nothing...
03/15/2008 Green I watch rain melt snow, water on water....
03/10/2008 The Fallen This may have nothing to do with anything...
03/06/2008 Because I am No Body If I were some body, I would be too...
03/05/2008 Faces in Wood The serious face of God, consumed by power,...
03/03/2008 Tangled Pain and pleasure remind us, life is real....
02/27/2008 Way Out Here Not the east coast, whose green hills mimic...
02/24/2008 Drive-By Haiku Voices call to us from beneath frozen...
02/20/2008 I Don't Understand I Don't understand Tao or Zen or Jesus...
02/19/2008 Days and Nights I remember days of charging spinning...
02/18/2008 Woman, My Heart My heart is machine, drum beneath...
02/10/2008 Poetopia We live in cottages behind dunes. No one...
02/07/2008 Minds at Work Digital clock reads 2:19; it was 1:53 when I...
02/05/2008 Do You Love Me? There is nothing more powerful than the way...
02/02/2008 Genius You, who no one understands, And everyone...
01/31/2008 Drive-Thru In his happy meal Marcus received the...
01/27/2008 Breakfast in Athens, GA i. It was twenty-eight years ago, in the...
01/23/2008 You Said Coffee in response to
01/21/2008 Meditations on a Left-Handed Fish My cell-cluster brain parses flourescent...
01/19/2008 The Dance
01/18/2008 Feel the Light Running late this morning. It was 7:00...
01/12/2008 The Poet's Wife Her theremin voice haunts me in black and...
01/11/2008 What Color Are You? From there to here, from here to...
01/06/2008 Gray Minnesota Rainbows stretch over gray...
01/01/2008 Where does it begin, and when does it end? Years ago, they set a trap for you. Your...
12/31/2007 For Those Who Love to Write I just came in from shoveling snow with a...
12/28/2007 Coleslaw Banjo
12/23/2007 Eat Me i. Oh, someone just offered me tickets to...
12/17/2007 Bonaventure I never met my grandfather, Fred, or his...
12/13/2007 Icebreaker All the wine of Andalasia would never melt...
12/11/2007 The Tree of Truth
Odin hung himself on Yggdrasil ...
12/09/2007 Evergreen I cut her down, dragged her across ice...
12/07/2007 Final Hours The end of time has come. Someone is...
12/05/2007 Love Napkin A large Guinness, 3:40 P.M, like an...
12/04/2007 To the Ghosts Poets are ghosts. Sometimes we visit the...
12/02/2007 First Lesson: Bars The door closed shut, leaving me in a dark...
12/01/2007 Venus in Leather We both know what you want. Slavery. Your...
11/28/2007 On The Lake Walk out onto the lake in the late...
11/25/2007 The Prince of the Pink Carpet It is fitting that you pay homage in my...
11/23/2007 A Gift for Tim For
11/22/2007 Thank You I'd like to thank you all for making this...
11/17/2007 SCENE ONE (Contains Profanity) [SCENE: O'Malley's Tavern. GERONIMO has...
11/08/2007 How One Learns An important dinner with her father,...
11/04/2007 Frida When I look at Frida Kahlo paintings, I...
10/31/2007 She Must Be An Anarchist
10/28/2007 We, The People The People assemble to express...
10/24/2007 Whiskey Pencils Should I focus myself for you with words...
10/20/2007 A Brief History This isn't like my great-grandfather's...
10/17/2007 Ely Rant        Another cliché photo. Trees reflected...
10/16/2007 A Map of Britain to the photo
10/16/2007 'Twas Good to the photo
10/13/2007 If I Still Lived in Georgia I walked through my garden this...
10/07/2007 Time to Put Pen Down Turn off machines, and go for a walk in the...
10/04/2007 Choice, MN I drive south on highway 43, looking for...
09/30/2007 Golden Harvest I hear long-legged ladies whisper in the...
09/26/2007 Lunch in Red Wing Late September, perfect for al fresco...
09/23/2007 Things Within Raking walnuts in tall grass, taking...
09/19/2007 Why Hold Back? A heart, completely in poetry and...
09/16/2007 Do You Believe in God? Maybe you don't use a capital G, or call it...
09/16/2007 Thoughts go 'round my mind like ravens circling 'bove a field of...
09/09/2007 The Empty Room In the corner, between the window and the...
09/06/2007 Ciao, Luciano -Penso che una vita per la musica sia una...
09/02/2007 The Case for Kilts Ancient Romans wore their robes and...
09/02/2007 Fly Me to Piemonte (by Britt Fleming and Mario Campo) for
08/30/2007 This is Life I see a light at the top of the stairs. It...
08/26/2007 Lago di Garda for
08/24/2007 Don't Don’t remind me of things I tried to...
08/21/2007 Does it? We are afraid to call it love, but does it...
08/19/2007 cin cin! Bibamus, moriendum est. Death's...
08/16/2007 Fair Statement Other than mustard stains on sweaty...
08/13/2007 State Fair: 2107 The familiar smell of deep-fried foods...
08/08/2007 vin rouge When I spill red wine on myself, it reminds...
08/06/2007 Ponte Rotto I walked along a Roman road      Along a...
08/04/2007 Thank you! I would like to thank everyone who showed up...
08/02/2007 The Bridge You east, I west, Watched life...
07/30/2007 Amphibianography How can a worker toil, come home, and...
07/22/2007 Navigation by Metaphor “I'm telling you, everything is metaphor for...
07/21/2007 Lucky Another flower gone to seed. Her skin...
07/15/2007 Grendl I know something good. So. Listen to...
07/10/2007 Of Mothers, Fathers, and Machines I would like to write of Barcelona, babies...
07/05/2007 The Second Manuscript The second manuscript was a turning...
07/01/2007 Freedom Fearless, we hoist anchor and set sail to...
06/27/2007 Giotto From
06/24/2007 Victoria Schwing My neighbor, Victoria Schwing, is 98 years...
06/22/2007 How to Clean Fish Let's start with something small like...
06/19/2007 Bear Island Lake The night was cool and dry; we were blessed...
06/13/2007 Four Haiku it's partly sober with a chance of...
06/12/2007 24 Deaths For the photo
06/10/2007 Borderlands: A Journey from Thirst      I sing of sorrows, forever buried in...
06/06/2007 Stoned For
06/03/2007 Lightning Bolt          On Saturday, August 27, 2005, at...
06/01/2007 bitter boy To
05/27/2007 Lincoln Continental with suicide doors, burned gas like the...
05/25/2007 Fear of Judgement Inspired by
05/23/2007 Laked In response to
05/20/2007 I will not write this poem I will not speak these words nor write the...
05/17/2007 An American Sentence: Turn the Other Mark likes to stand on ceilings in St. Paul...
05/13/2007 Six in Savannah The city was safe enough in sixty-four to...
05/08/2007 Practicing Anguish For the photo
05/05/2007 Day 7: Triniology i. For the photo of
05/04/2007 Day 6: Niki and Ash For the photo
05/03/2007 Day 5: You! For the photo
05/02/2007 Day 4: Isabella For the photo
05/01/2007 Day 3: Russell For the photo
04/30/2007 Day Two: Tessa For the photo of
04/29/2007 Day One: Longwillow Wall woman, wood willow, tall, painted,...
04/22/2007 The Reading It satisfies to flirt with...
04/15/2007 Clarity Sometimes my words seem confused, as, like...
04/10/2007 Naked Spring Oh, yes, the weather. I know it bothers...
04/08/2007 The Tree Her patterns grow, but she breaks. Why weep...
04/01/2007 Naked, with Wings Let me show you the truth. Take off my...
03/28/2007 Of Birds I saw a cardinal, then another chasing each...
03/25/2007 Surrealism Clairvoyance In the eye lies...
03/18/2007 Ephemeral Field Bagpipes in bedrooms, droning over...
03/16/2007 Drinking on the Mountain I sit beneath pines with bottle and...
03/11/2007 She Rings Struck, her pain escaped by...
03/06/2007 Left and Right
03/04/2007 The Streets She walks dark streets, crossing corners...
03/02/2007 Open Window One night, when I was four years old, an...
02/25/2007 Blood Warm living rivers run through earthen...
02/20/2007 First My friends Harry and Caroline set me up with...
02/18/2007 Apollo A god, carved in stone A man, conceived in...
02/15/2007 D & A, The One Act Play Let's have some fun. Please use the...
02/11/2007 To Goddess I saw you – naked, every curve and soft...
02/05/2007 If Only If there only was a way to dance with more...
02/02/2007 Run Soft moss beneath our shoes Scent of...
01/28/2007 Forever, Again I did not ask for this. We were once...
01/21/2007 Two Glasses There are two glasses. One of them is...
01/20/2007 Five Fishing Poems Here are the poems written on the ice...
01/18/2007 Halfway There    He sat in a corner, writing poems and...
01/15/2007 Niflheim We come in simple, sturdy ships, seeking...
01/07/2007 Looking Back It was a good night. Drinks were...
01/04/2007 Hell The chains are gone. Scars are...
01/01/2007 Hunger Hunger touches every tongue with salted...
12/30/2006 Distance (This is a poem I wrote in early October,...
12/26/2006 A Song I sing to you in red, my numbers beyond...
12/25/2006 Fields What is gained when all beautiful things are...
12/20/2006 I see Things Criss-cross wires and angels, demons on...
12/18/2006 Soul of Physics sticks divine fortune vectors join frame...
12/12/2006 Light, Again The fallen ones watch from windows that...
12/10/2006 Light The fallen ones watch from windows that...
12/05/2006 Works i. Artwork resting in sunlight, quiet,...
12/04/2006 A Request These inquisitive ones leave thoughts...
11/29/2006 Goodbye Awakened with sensations of arms and...
11/27/2006 Waves A tsunami of linen pulls us deeper with...
11/24/2006 Oysters on My Tongue The sun in this glass cauterizes the mind,...
11/21/2006 The Builders We build erections with cold nails and...
11/20/2006 The Quantum Way I used to think of cold beer on hot...
11/13/2006 Lines Lines of Force tumbling, surging upwards...
11/06/2006 Creed I believe in muses who walk the...
11/06/2006 Non Sequitur Theater Adapt to the need to swim, drained and...
11/03/2006 Dancing with Beethoven In spring, azaleas cover the city. Have...
10/23/2006 Here lies poetry A mind that will not move is dead. Art that...
10/23/2006 August 3, 1983, Wildsachsen, Hessen, Germany The trail through the woods led to the...
10/16/2006 Three Step Path I. In darkness a vision, like the...
10/09/2006 Aino I remember your soft kisses when you were...
10/07/2006 Tennessee VS. Georgia 108-93 This is already the highest scoring TN-GA...
10/05/2006 Puto Busted for murder and thrown to the...
10/02/2006 The Garden One seed, planted in a garden, pushed and...
10/01/2006 Sunday Dinner You a steaming pile of uncertainty and...
09/30/2006 Fusion The path leads us through amber vapors,...
09/29/2006 Fly Look between the worlds to see your spirit...
09/28/2006 Almost Midnight Faster than I can Think minor chords...
09/28/2006 up Naked bodies, uplifted by the wind arms...
09/28/2006 Seas Pulling crabs from mud-bound oyster...
09/28/2006 The Button Sitting on arse, watching telly, what more...
09/28/2006 Ready Ready to ride on dual super turbines,...
09/27/2006 In Shadows Eyes that saw it all, and see the...
09/26/2006 Thanks for the Memories Dreams you never planned on having are the...
09/25/2006 In the Sun I watched the guy with the Masters in...
09/25/2006 Invocation One more day of stealing words,...
09/24/2006 Respond to This to respond to this for reasons from...
09/23/2006 The Way Good evening. After a thorough...
09/22/2006 Wu one step away from the truth, yet you fail...
09/21/2006 Rush Hour Sinners! Listen, and take good notes. The...
09/20/2006 noch zehn tage The rushing water in the river behind the...
09/19/2006 The Eleventh Wave rock is hard, but she is deep waves come,...
09/18/2006 Weboem In day and darkened room, be prepared to...
09/17/2006 Continued from September 15 Sister Marlene Langen sat with her...
09/16/2006 This makes me want to write something wind off the pines beats flies on...
09/15/2006 Chasing Windmills Dr. Juergen Rausch and I arrived at...
09/14/2006 On the Road I'm on the road, and not like Jack, driving...
09/13/2006 The Glaciers Are Melting We come here on vacation now, hiking from...
09/12/2006 Helix It looked like a long way down, but I was...
09/11/2006 Complete and Total Sense Time passes, but there is always more of...
09/10/2006 The Mizarian Poets We travel at will, from past, to present,...
09/09/2006 A Day Off Silent, cloudy, not quite awake despite...
09/08/2006 Thirst With the ruins now behind me, mouth dry,...
09/07/2006 Red Wine Always forward, unaware of the absolute...
09/06/2006 Bitter? No, Just Better It's difficult to remember things you don't...
09/05/2006 Greet the Day Elaine arrived at work somewhat disheveled,...
09/04/2006 Trying not to think of Wordsworth She came to me one September morning as...
09/03/2006 The Flood When payment is due, water has no patience,...
09/02/2006 Lefty Observe the way the muscles parse...
09/01/2006 Blank To bring into form out of nothing a dark...
08/21/2006 Distilled The beginning of a week-long purification...
07/31/2006 There's a Moose Loose in Duluth No, another stimulus. This time, a guy on a...
07/17/2006 The Quiet Which god, which god should I pray to today?...
07/05/2006 Instructions By keeping one’s hair very short, and...
06/21/2006 Tettegouche A broken rod, sandals blown into the water,...
06/05/2006 Hot Somewhere between Chicago and Paris on a...
05/22/2006 Books For Sale If you go to San Francisco, you can see us...
05/15/2006 Coriander The moment of entry into the afterlife takes...
05/09/2006 Elysium In the city of demons and angels giants...
05/02/2006 ripples it will break surface, keep looking do you...
04/25/2006 exile a few tins of coffee, buckwheat some eggs,...
 

 

 

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