Rich Boucher

From the poem “Somos, Avec Con Dulce Sueño Votre, Tio Notre”

“…Alas, for all our vaunting, we are but, like, vain and motley,
unshaven to the last before the vast staring match of a cosmos
that seems like it only cares about itself and can’t hear us.
Life and space are a mystery that nobody at all ever,
ever could even possibly understand even a little tiny bit;
fools like Plato, Descartes and Stephen Hawking
flail away blindly in their precious little wheelchairs
and can only claw away unsmartly at the bare straws
of wisdom that don’t get grasped by them eternally…”

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A past member of five national poetry slam teams (Worcester, Mass. (x2), Washington, D.C., Wilmington, Del. and Albuquerque, N.M.), Rich has published four chapbooks of poetry and for seven years hosted an open reading and slam in Newark, Delaware. Since moving to Albuquerquein March of 2008, Rich has been performing and writing steadily in the DukeCity, and is a regular contributor/editor at localpoetsguild.wordpress.com. Living day to day with physical abnormalities caused by the consumption of Monsanto’s supercorn, Rich is also an educator, adventurer and an unlicensed psychic. Rich’s poems have appeared in Adobe Walls: An Anthology of New Mexico Poetry, Brawler, Crack the Spine, Fickle Muses, Grey Sparrow Journal, HyperText, The Rag, The Malpais Review, Clutching at Straws, Shot Glass Journal, Missive, Mutant Root, Poydras Review, Sparkbright, The Mas Tequila Review, The Yellow Ham, Borderline, 200NewMexicoPoems and The Legendary. In January of 2012, Rich appeared on the album, “Dylan – Philadelphia pays tribute to a Legend”, an album featuring variousPhiladelphia artists performing covers of Dylan songs to benefit Amnesty International and the End Hunger Network; Rich’s contribution to the album was a spoken-word rendition of Bob Dylan’s “My Back Pages”. Hear some of his poems at richboucher.bandcamp.com

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Dark Jade, by Rich Boucher