%1 http://coloradoencyclopedia.org/ en Wendy Videlock http://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/wendy-videlock <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--title--encyclopedia-article.html.twig x field--node--title.html.twig * field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--title.html.twig * field--string.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Wendy Videlock </span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--uid--encyclopedia-article.html.twig x field--node--uid.html.twig * field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--uid.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'username' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> <span lang="" about="/users/yongli" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">yongli</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> </span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--created--encyclopedia-article.html.twig x field--node--created.html.twig * field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'time' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/time.html.twig' --> <time datetime="2019-01-27T15:25:29-07:00" title="Sunday, January 27, 2019 - 15:25" class="datetime">Sun, 01/27/2019 - 15:25</time> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/time.html.twig' --> </span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'addtoany_standard' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * addtoany-standard--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * addtoany-standard--node.html.twig x addtoany-standard.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/addtoany/templates/addtoany-standard.html.twig' --> <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="http://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/wendy-videlock" data-a2a-title="Wendy Videlock "><a class="a2a_dd addtoany_share" href="https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=http%3A%2F%2Fcoloradoencyclopedia.org%2Farticle%2Fwendy-videlock&amp;title=Wendy%20Videlock%20"></a><a class="a2a_button_facebook"></a><a class="a2a_button_twitter"></a><a class="a2a_button_email"></a></span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/addtoany/templates/addtoany-standard.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--body--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item" id="id-body"><div>&#13; <p class="rtecenter"><img alt="Poet: Wendy Videlock" src="/sites/default/files/Wendy_Videlock.jpg" style="width: 392px; height: 481px;" /></p>&#13; &#13; <p>Wendy Videlock is a writer, visual artist, teacher, and a life-long student of the world. She lives on the <strong><a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/western-slope">Western Slope</a></strong> of Colorado in <strong>Palisade</strong>. Her books include <em>Nevertheless </em>(San Jose, CA: Able Muse Press, 2011)<em>, Slingshots &amp; Love Plums </em>(San Jose, CA: Able Muse Press, 2015)<em>, The Dark Gnu </em>(San Jose, CA: Able Muse Press, 2013), and a chapbook, <em>What</em><em>’</em><em>s That Supposed to Mean</em> (New York, NY: EXOT Books, 2010).</p>&#13; &#13; <h2>Poems</h2>&#13; &#13; <div>&#13; <h3>The Chameleon’s Eye</h3>&#13; &#13; <p>The course of evolution is the story of the soul.<br />&#13;  — CM</p>&#13; &#13; <p>We begin with the chameleon’s eye<br />&#13; or perhaps with a war, and a little girl,<br />&#13; or a single cell, or a single thought,<br />&#13; floating about in a murky and<br />&#13; primordial world.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Let us begin again:<br />&#13; a murky and primordial world<br />&#13; is nonetheless wrought with stars,<br />&#13; turns the old chameleon’s eye,<br />&#13; emboldens the soul,<br />&#13; floating about in a murky and<br />&#13; primordial world.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Trapped like a fish, the soul insists:<br />&#13; thrashing about, floating in,<br />&#13; or clear as a clam in a freshwater pool,<br />&#13; it hardly matters why<br />&#13; or when.  Let us begin again.</p>&#13; </div>&#13; &#13; <div>&#13; <h3>I Have been Counting My Regrets:</h3>&#13; &#13; <p>Bacon, Facebook, cigarettes.  <br />&#13; Anger.  <br />&#13; Bluster. <br />&#13; Laziness.  </p>&#13; &#13; <p>Fearfulness. Indifference.    <br />&#13; Lousy lovers, stupid bets.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Things that should not be confessed. <br />&#13; I’m still not dead.  </p>&#13; &#13; <p>It should be said</p>&#13; &#13; <p>I haven’t finished counting yet.  </p>&#13; &#13; <p>First published in <em>Rattle</em></p>&#13; </div>&#13; &#13; <div>&#13; <h3>Cicada Methuselah Clan</h3>&#13; &#13; <p>Underground<br />&#13; they carry on,<br />&#13; but there is sound,</p>&#13; &#13; <p>there’s even song<br />&#13; that carries on<br />&#13; underground.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>It is the sound<br />&#13; of weightedness,<br />&#13; of being bound,</p>&#13; &#13; <p>of bending roots<br />&#13; and being ground<br />&#13; in dark perceptions</p>&#13; &#13; <p>to the sound<br />&#13; of small mouths sipping<br />&#13; underground.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>First published in <em>The Lyric</em></p>&#13; &#13; <h3>Ode to the Slow</h3>&#13; &#13; <p>I’ve an affinity for ghosts, and so,<br />&#13; dwelling as we ghostly do, with the caw<br />&#13; and the hoo and the pinyon moon, where the freeze</p>&#13; &#13; <p>and the thaw and the witness are<br />&#13; together alive and together entombed,<br />&#13; here on the edge of the high desert world</p>&#13; &#13; <p>where all is stone and all is sky,<br />&#13; where an ancient sea was driven forth<br />&#13; to slowly die, here where the ruins and the peaks</p>&#13; &#13; <p>have changed their names to bluff and butte,<br />&#13; here where the <strong><a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/search/google/ute">Ute</a></strong> had slowed their pace<br />&#13; to warm their bones and slake the thirst,</p>&#13; &#13; <p>here where the reach of the canyon ends<br />&#13; or begins, as it were —like knowledge, it’s always<br />&#13; a rapture or a bit of a blur— (one could soar on the wing</p>&#13; &#13; <p>or tumble in) here where the rolling stone knows<br />&#13; the floor is only made of sand, and the arc<br />&#13; is the mark of the fallen star, </p>&#13; &#13; <p>here where the ghosts and the slopes are wan<br />&#13; and empty of virtue and of sin, I lower a bridge,<br />&#13; and watch the morning fog roll in.  </p>&#13; &#13; <h3>Said the Sculptor</h3>&#13; &#13; <p>Given a freak of vision<br />&#13; and precision</p>&#13; &#13; <p>a person can chip away at a thing<br />&#13; revealing the shape<br />&#13; that lies within:<br />&#13; Pallas Athena, The Thinker,<br />&#13; The Kiss,<br />&#13; The Griffin’s Wing.<br />&#13; Given the inexplicable itch<br />&#13; to chip and chip<br />&#13; away at things, it’s wise to recall<br />&#13; one can also end up<br />&#13; with nothing at all.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>First published in <em>Nevertheless</em> (San Jose, CA: Able Muse Press, 2011).</p>&#13; &#13; <h3>The Skin of the Boy who Changed his Destiny</h3>&#13; &#13; <p> — for Sherman Alexie​</p>&#13; &#13; <p>A child is born unto this world.<br />&#13; He brings with him<br />&#13; the skin that has been given him,</p>&#13; &#13; <p>the load that has been shifted to him,<br />&#13; and the gift that has been offered him.<br />&#13; From these things the child forms </p>&#13; &#13; <p>early on, a secret code,<br />&#13; that might in fact be better known<br />&#13; as salmon, or bear, or prayer,</p>&#13; &#13; <p>or perhaps a kind of living law. <br />&#13; Heredity claims the shape of the jaw.<br />&#13; Geography shapes the palm of the hand.  </p>&#13; &#13; <p>The dying of the mother tongue<br />&#13; punctuates the northern star,<br />&#13; while all powerful Destiny</p>&#13; &#13; <p>stands in the wings, in awe. <br />&#13; It has been said that all laboring<br />&#13; in service of soul</p>&#13; &#13; <p>is done in the dark,<br />&#13; that nothing’s truer than the autumn leaf,<br />&#13; and the life of the mind</p>&#13; &#13; <p>is best described<br />&#13; as a kind of collective dream.  The skin<br />&#13; of the boy who changed his destiny</p>&#13; &#13; <p>is mottled as the moth, is storied<br />&#13; as the mother tree, and bears the mark<br />&#13; of violence and legacy,</p>&#13; &#13; <p>of tenderness, and melody,<br />&#13; where gift and load and forgiveness form<br />&#13; with destiny,</p>&#13; &#13; <p>a certain solidarity,<br />&#13; and the closest the gifted child comes<br />&#13; to medicine, or remedy. </p>&#13; &#13; <h3><strong>Deconstruction</strong></h3>&#13; &#13; <p>The chickadee is all about truth<br />&#13; The finch is a token. The albatross<br />&#13; is always an omen. The kestrel is mental,<br />&#13; the lark is luck, the grouse is dance,<br />&#13; the goose is quest.  The need for speed<br />&#13; is given the peregrine, and the dove’s<br />&#13; been blessed with the feminine. </p>&#13; &#13; <p>The quail is word, and culpability. <br />&#13; The crane is the dean of poetry.<br />&#13; The swift is the means to agility,<br />&#13; the waxwing mere civility,<br />&#13; the sparrow a nod to working class</p>&#13; &#13; <p>nobility.  The puffin’s the brother<br />&#13; of laughter, and prayer, the starling the student<br />&#13; of Baudelaire. The mockingbird<br />&#13; is the sound of redress, the grackle the uncle<br />&#13; of excess. The flicker is rhythm,</p>&#13; &#13; <p>the ostrich is earth, the bluebird a simple<br />&#13; symbol of mirth. The oriole<br />&#13; is the fresh start. The magpie prince<br />&#13; of the dark arts. The swallow is home<br />&#13; and protection -- the vulture the priest</p>&#13; &#13; <p>of purification, the heron a font<br />&#13; of self-reflection.  The swisher belongs<br />&#13; to the faery realm. Resourcefulness<br />&#13; is the cactus wren.  The pheasant is sex,<br />&#13; the chicken is egg, the eagle is free,</p>&#13; &#13; <p>the canary the bringer of ecstasy.<br />&#13; The martin is peace.  The stork is release.<br />&#13; The swan is the mother of cool discretion. <br />&#13; The loon is the watery voice of the moon. <br />&#13; The owl’s the keeper of secrets, grief,<br />&#13; and fresh fallen snow, and the crow<br />&#13; has the bones of the ancestral soul.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>First published in <em>Hudson Review</em> and reprinted in <em>Best American Poetry</em></p>&#13; &#13; <h3>Merchant Culture</h3>&#13; &#13; <p><em>What</em><em>’</em><em>s the going rate for a poem these days? </em><br />&#13; — Jack Mueller</p>&#13; &#13; <p>I’ll trade you a drop of snow</p>&#13; &#13; <p>for a lyrical poem,<br />&#13; a parking lot for a muffled moan,<br />&#13; the justice card<br />&#13; for the nine of swords<br />&#13; a soldier’s heart<br />&#13; for a kettle of gold<br />&#13; a kindly verb<br />&#13; for the face of your lord,<br />&#13; a Persian word for an off<br />&#13; chord,<br />&#13; a thousand tears,<br />&#13; a million tomes,<br />&#13; a drop of snow<br />&#13; for a lyrical poem.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>First published in <em>Rattle</em></p>&#13; &#13; <h3>What You’ve Been Given</h3>&#13; &#13; <p>Here lie the things you have been given:<br />&#13; the unabridged and the riven,<br />&#13; the easy breeze, the unforgiven,<br />&#13; the throw-away, the hard wrought,</p>&#13; &#13; <p>the speed rail, the train of thought,<br />&#13; the all is calm and all is not,<br />&#13; the darkest spark, the clearest bead,</p>&#13; &#13; <p>the soft shoe, the stampede,<br />&#13; the germ of greed, the store of thanks,<br />&#13; the standard flaw, the saving grace,</p>&#13; &#13; <p>the perfect night, the wanting dawn,<br />&#13; the white noise, the black swan,<br />&#13; the aria, the mad song.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Do thy best. <br />&#13; Pass it on.</p>&#13; &#13; 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