April 2011 Open Reading Review

With a warm spring breeze in the air and cherry blossoms just starting
to leak out from their buds, we gathered at the Red Rock.  It was a potent
turnout of 7 Readers and a quality audience.

Readings:

Ernie Schaal ( USA )
Prose < Funeral of an Expat, Scene 3 >
Illiterate is a strong word. Let us say that she was not a computer
person.

Vash Bandy ( USA )
Prose < Kataomoi >
While you were dancing naked in my shower, I was cutting the heads
off of roses for you.
Prose < Random >
You didn’t mention on your profile that you are a penguin

Tom Bauerle ( USA )
Prose < Excerpts from Ghost Book: Seers >
I know it wasn’t a dream, it was real.
Prose < The tragedy of Tsu City >
Ghosts stalked the beach at night

Albert Sussler ( USA )
Prose <  After Shock >
Realizing the damaged to their daily lives will take longer to sink in.
Prose < The Coroner >
Little girl with a bag of food, never to be eaten, to heavy to run

Linda Donan ( USA )
Prose < Clarence and the Bus , Chapter 4 , Finding the Bus>
I was headed for the wrong Mexico.

Joe Sichi ( USA )
Poem <Goat Song >
Some loves are perfect, they either must or cannot last

James Cloke ( Canada ) debut
Poem < Beneath my Hands by Leonard Cohen>
Whenever you move I hear the sound of wings
Poem < Ego >
Sunshine reflects off my ego
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The Next Open Readings is scheduled for May 15th. from 3:30-5:30 P.M.
The location will be at The Red Rock, Sakae Nagoya.

There will be a charity concert at the Red Rock on May 8th. Details
are still emerging.
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Thank you all for your thoughts and sweat in bringing life to our Open
Readings.

Albert Sussler

March 2011 Open Reading Review

Just two days after the great earthquake and tsunami hit the Japanese Pacific Coast
we gathered at the Red Rock. It was a big turnout of 11 Readers.

Readings:

Paul Binford ( USA )
Prose < The Wayward Do-gooder >
If the arm falls off your dead.

Vash Bandy ( USA ) debut
Prose < Lightning Sticks >
Greg was the base so he got all the girls.
Prose < Dakota >
You have lost Dakota but you can smell her.

Yoichi Miura ( Japan ) debut
Introduction <Classical Japanese music and beautiful English>

Albert Sussler ( USA )
Prose < Sucking Thumbs >
Why even my father sucks his thumb and he is 35
Prose < Small Voices >
The cry echoed off the concrete walls.
Prose / haiku < Peace Park in Joetsu >
pleasant green haven, floating musicians above, where once cruelty
thrived.

Joe Sichi ( USA )
Poem < Notes of Aging >
freedom is another word for …
Prose < Shou-yu and Vinegar
a half teaspoon of less perfection
Prose < Open Petition to the United Nations>
I would sit rejoicing.

Shoichi Miyamura ( Japan )
Poem < In the Bush >
in pursuit of the tail which seems to be the cause of every existing thing
Poem < Ptolemaic Theory >
The star never seems to move nevertheless it is moving, in the same manner I am aging
Poem < Starry Sky >
Wishing I could be such a light

Tom Bauerle ( USA )
Poem < Evil Faleena ( Damn my DNA) >
Damn DNA , Darwin and evolution for making me stupid, and human and male.

Linda Donan ( USA )
Prose < Clarence and the Bus , 3rd Chapter, Gama Chappy>
God .. he loves them all … yes be happy.

Gerry Firth ( UK ) debut … after many years
Poems < Not Quite Yet >
the nail in the coffin, I finally got it out.
< My Great American Friend >
Next tweet he is goin to eat less.
< Bad Tidbit >
My wife said I should be sitting with tea and the devil
and many more…

Ernie Schaal ( USA )
Prose < The Body >
You have to see her so you can say goodbye to her.

Shannon Coles ( Australia )
Prose < Book Bordello, Celebrating Worship >
a bachelor never makes the same mistake once.

Albert Sussler.


February 2011 Open Reading Review

On one of winter’s short days, a dozen of us gathered at the Red Rock
to enjoy February’s, Nagoya Writes, 7 Open Readings.

Readings:

Mayumi Lennane, ( Japan )
Poem  <Love >
Flower pretty, like you.

Linda Donan ( USA )
Prose < Clarence and the Bus , 2nd Chapter, God Daddies>
Will I still be carrying a teddy bear when I am 21.

Tom Bauerle ( USA )
Prose < The Taste of Tiger >
Dying dumbly without passion or meaning.

Albert Sussler ( USA )
Prose <  Valentine Day >
To succeed with other children depends most on what words you choose
and how you use them.

Joe Sichi ( USA )
Prose < Snippets >
An explosion often provides a way out.

Shannon Coles ( Australia )
Proverbs >
There is nothing that is more unequal than equal treatment for
unequals.

Paul Binford ( USA )
Prose < You have olives? >
We only have one olive.

Albert Sussler