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Woodland Pattern™    Book   Center Poetry Archive		Al DeGenova Al DeGenova has performed widely as a poet and as lead saxophonist for the Chicago-based blues group, The Seven Sons. His years as an editor at Downbeat inform his blues-based poetry. Al is the co-founder and editor of After Hours, a bi-annual literary magazine of Chicago literature and art, now in its fifth year of publication. AvantRetro (Charlie Rossiter & Al DeGenova) is a Chicago-based performance poetry duo that uses a variety of techniques and tools including store-bought and home-made musical instruments, audience participation, and unorthodox vocalizations to present their original poetry that gets at the essence of what it means to be human.

The Blackberry Poems Al DeGenova

Not Blackberries It is not blackberries or rain or wine or brandyit is you on my lips the scent of cream-blue dawn the taste of woman, you, the earth spring the lingering taste of living that days and years and pages of calendars and nightmares and miles of mountains and ten thousand showers cannot wash away. Feed Me Feed me your blackberries soaked in rain or sweet white cream in a flaming brandy sauce in your belly button down the zipper of your jeans balanced on the pucker of your lips in between your toes spread like jam over your breasts— I eat you blackberry bitter or sweet your juice running down my chin.

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