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EILEEN MYLES No Rain And then I heard the sound of rain that"s the air-conditioning but what makes me want the rain in here. That"s you says Chris being con- nected but no I hoped the darkness meant something. I put the heat on before I left so I could come in to something warm not cold bereft. But it wasn"t that. Just grey cold drunken grey a day full of sticks and plans and flowers for you. I want to wrap them in bamboo or clay I want to hang them on your door opening the marvelous concrete truths of what you"re doing now with your hands and ideas I have a secret for you the rain is falling through a screen I see many of us I hear a roar what"s that I asked Chris. That"s the future he said. It"s true Copyright 2006, all rights retained by the poet

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On the Poetry of EILEEN MYLES PRSeditor If the children of immigrants tend to lose themselves in others, then their family, friends, and aquaintences see it as a selfless, altruistic, empathetic act. But, no. In MYLES' second poem, "O", recognition of a void obligates us to fill it. I have noticed among East European poets a kind of "call and response" which is also found in much of African American poetry and it may be an inherited trait as many immigrants settled in factory cities and took low paying, high risk jobs (as did their Black neighbors). There is however a diference that may (ought) not to be overlooked. African American call and response is associated with and has at its core the spiritual, as in "gospel" music. But the immigrant has more of a call and echo (as one might yodel or as one would simply note as an internalized call echoing from a personal hollowness), a forlorn act of self-affirmation in regard to having surrendered ourselves or having had it surrendered by previous generations everything in order to come to American, to come to naught.

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EILEEN MYLES O Americanization means spreading the emptiness around. No more nations & some nations are even less than that. Who ever can keep tense longest is God f"rinstance, my a man or a flower Copyright 2006, all rights retained by the poet

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