More Peter Pereira

Peter Pereira Think or Swim It's a short trip between artist and autist. A sneak's a snake in disguise. Poetry without the why is just trope. I don't know whether we don't know what we don't know, or merely need reminding. I want to put the iron back in irony -- or at least the noir. To know how terror leads to error, and defies to deifies. I can't decide whether I'm not thinking clearly or clearly not thinking. Sometimes you just have to dive in feet first. Like his mother said: Take the I out of pitiful -- you get uplift. Anagrammer #2 I'm interested in the space between detonation and denotation. I'm curious how things move from ignored to eroding, and from eroding to redoing. How it is we make danger into garden and words into worlds. So much depends upon a letter lost or gained. How we choose to parse a phrase, spare or spear a thought. I want to know how demotion leads to devotion and poverty to poetry. How we find the g that makes enraged engaged. How we know whether to flee or feel. Peter Pereira is a family physician in Seattle His chapbook The Lost Twin was published by Grey Spider in 2000. He won the 2002 Hayden Carruth Award, and Copper Canyon just published his Saying the World.