Val Morehouse

Biography of Val Morehouse

A reviewer, storyteller, writer, & librarian. Current reviews are in The Ruach: newsletter of Temple Isaiah, Lafayette, California. Quote: 'Val could read the phone book and make it sound good! ' A podcast of Val reading Gershon's Monster is at http: //media.libsyn.com/media/yourjewishneighborhood/yjn-108.mp3
Click 'play now'. To hear Chanukkah Guest, a story by Eric Kimmel, go http: //media.libsyn.com/media/ yourjewishneighborhood/yjn-19.mp3 April 08 Val won 1st & 2nd for short and long poems at Pleasanton, CA Poetry & Arts Festival. Also, poems Carbon Futures and Blowout appear on CA Poet Laureate Al Young's website alyoung.org> Wild Blue Yonder section. Other readings, etc. are on blog HoopDance at Valmorehouse.com. Early reviews also appear in archives of The Booklist (Chicago) and Library Journal(New York) . Early poems were published in Anthology: a Collection of Cape Cod Writers, from Woods Hole Press.
Val Morehouse's Works:
A.N.T.H.O.L.O.G.Y.: a Collection of Cape Cod Poets
Val Morehouse Poems
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Winter People
Faces of natives turn inward like talk in uncertain throats. Small replicas of life eclipse -
Waiting For The Folks
Who am I? Why, you’re Mama. No, I am not. I am your daughter. Stop foolin’ me! -
Life Story
There is something raw in the taking, an ordinary sadness that blackens in the bottom of the cup. Here a fly is swatted, -
Liberator
Like a lover he enters my life, carrying his dark purpose into the bedroom. Each thing opens to him like a map. -
Soliloquy
Inside the morning this heart is a gong announcing your presence. See? This skin of mine is but a sheaf of pale wheat, ripened to nourish another’s need. -
Healed
With knives he carves my woman’s flesh into new peaks and valleys, cuts out the center of rebellion, that audacity of dysfunction, -
Machete
_________For William, who performed this ritual... Sealed with gases vivid as a flock of monarchs, -
Ritual Sunday
….“We hoped to gently persuade you book-review lovers to head online in search of our missing Book Review page…” The Contra Costa Times. -
Hunter (Haiku)
Dawn's red cap early over silver spoor tracking dewprints of the moon. -
Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
____version from a traditional slave spiritual, circa 1860’s... -
Icarus' Feathers
We will know and remember with the inferno in our hearts, the day a devil’s passport was stamped: “Return to sender.” -
Cave Painting
In dim coolness, underground, punctuated by the dropp and whine of the elevator I cut open boxes and stock tomorrow’s shelves. -
Bessie Ogilvy
Crackle of sun stranded in blue glass she waits in that white house so old her breath haunts the cold -
Poisoned Apple
“It is also well known within the nuclear power industry, that minor accidents occur on a regular basis due to human error or purposeful sabotage.”___ Kevin Briggs, Director, U.S. Disaster Preparedness Institute,2001. Complacency is its trigger. “Clean” its alias. Money its game.
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Swept Away
Tornado watch.
Hot air riding up and over
stillness. The horizon
bends like a lens and
darkens to the color of
your eyes.
My skin gives up
whirling leaves of scent