Reclaiming Quarterly, "Confessions of a Pagan Priest"

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http://www.reclaimingquarterly.org/102/102-welcome.html

Feature Articles - "Confessions of a Pagan Priest"

by Rafael Jesús González, pp. 57 - 59

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Gay Day

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Gay means joyful

To all my brothers and sisters who on this day celebrate human sexuality in all its diversity and joy with provocative abandon and scandalous good humor.



---So Much for Sex


You have a dong
or you have a ding;
---at various times
------& different places
you may ding-ding
or you may ding-dong
or you may dong-dong.

Anyway, the music is lovely
& you can’t go wrong.



------© Rafael Jesús González 2011




May justice and universal human rights, respect, compassion, peace prevail under the universal flag of the rainbow.

Gay significa alegre

A mis hermanos y hermanas que en este día celebran la sexualidad humana en toda su diversidad y alegría con provocante abandono y escandaloso buen humor.
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---Tanto por el sexo


Tienes un don
o tienes una doña;
---en varias ocasiones
------y en distintos lugares
harás doña-doña
o harás doña-don
o harás don-don.

De todos modos la música es linda
y no necesitas perdón.



----------© Rafael Jesús González 2011


Que la justicia, los derechos humanos universales, el respeto, la compasión, la paz prevalezcan bajo la bandera universal del arco iris.
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riverbabble 19, summer 2011

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riverbabble 19 --------summer 2011

Vietnam, 2011 by Christopher Novak

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riverbabble 19

Summer Bloomsday Issue

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Poetry

Jannie Dresser:
-------------Elaine, Lily Maid of Astolat
-------------Mortician's After Hours

Rafael Jesús González:
-----------La entrega de coyote / Coyote's Surrender
-----------Obra maestra / Master-Piece

Daniel Beauregard: Symphony on 400 North

Marion Boyer: The Vacuum of Space

Anthony Adrian Pino: The Healing Beach

j.d. daniels: Mount Ayr

Craig Collins-Young: Lou's Tavern

Juan Domingo: Moon Coyote

Emily Severance: Kink

James Duncan: I'll drink you down at dawn

Karen Schubert: Concealed by a Doorway, Can't Turn Away

Nancy Flynn: Faux Elegy After Mario & Thaeng's Vows

Brad Rose: Second Cousins

Gregory Owen Pearse: Tea With the Emperor

Christopher Mulrooney: the black box

Cindy M. Kelly Fish Story

George Korolog: Listening to James Clay

Maude Larke: Firebird

Ken Poyner: Shotgun Wedding

Armando Rendon: Bike Repair

Phibby Venable: Eleven Swans

Fiction

Larry Lefkowitz: In Victoria's Bed

Sandra O'Briant: Against the Rules

Tom Sheehan: Ivaloo Outside the Lines

Mitch Duckworth: First Snow

Phibby Venable: The Man in the Train is Waving

Flash Fiction

Olivia Arieti: Singing Revenge

Chella Courington: Monsoon Days

Jim Eigo: Moonless

Jason Price Everett Sarcology

Kawika Guillermo: Learning to Love

Aryan Kaganof: The Cuckolding

Len Kuntz: Night Swimming

Doug Mathewson: Planet Betty, the New World

Brad Rose: Spikes

Jerry Vilhotti: Gotcha!

Elizabeth Weaver: The Gift

Reviews

Joanne Faries: Refuse to Flinch: a Review of Girls & Women

Meg Withers: Review of Girls & Women

Photography

Christopher Novak: Vietnam, 2011

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O well I suppose its because they were so plump and tempting in my short petticoat he couldn't resist they excite my self sometimes its well for men all the amount of pleasure they get off a womans body were so round and white for them always I wished I was one myself for a change just to try with that thing they have swelling up on you so hard and at the same time so soft when you touch it

JAMES JOYCE, Ulysses, p. 638., 18, 1378-1333.

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Summer Solstice & Cance

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Summer Solstice & Cancer

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---------Cáncer

El cangrejo anhela,
después del largo día,
arrancar del cielo
esa moneda de plata fría
que es la luna.
---Sus ojos son cuentas de rubí
---y en las entrañas
---guarda un perla sensitiva
que anhela llevar muy hondo,
---------------------muy hondo
al punto cardinal del agua,
---al fondo primordial del mar.


--------------© Rafael Jesús González 2011



-----------Cancer

The crab longs,
after the long day,
to tear from the sky
that coin of cold silver
that is the moon.
-----Its eyes are ruby beads
-----& in its entrails
-----it keeps a sensitive pearl
which it longs to carry very deep,
---------------------------very deep
---to the cardinal point of the waters,
the primordial depths of the sea.



--------------© Rafael Jesús González 2011
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'La Musa' is epicode to the moon by Raymund Eli Rojas

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'La Musa' is epicode to the moon

By Raymundo Eli Rojas \ Special to the Times

Posted: 05/01/2011 12:00:00 AM MDT

"La musa lunática/The Lunatic Muse"
by Rafael Jesús González (Berkeley, Pandemonium Press).

Like an epic poem, Rafael Jesús González's "La musa lunática/The Lunatic Muse" (Pandemonium Press) explores the night's light in its fullness, blueness and spaciousness.

González has collected 26 verses of lunar obsession that start with Christmas in El Paso and lead readers over steeples in Cambridge.

A veteran Chicano poet, González attended El Paso High School before joining Texas Western College (now the University of Texas at El Paso), where he was a member of the literary scene of the late 1950s with the likes of Abelardo Delgado, Arden Tice and Robert Burlingame. He edited "Desert Gold: An anthology of Texas Western College Verse" (1964) before moving to California's Bay area and becoming part of that literary scene.

The new volume is filled with verse and narrative poems. González opens up with his lunar obsession in "Lunatic Obsession":

In the desert around Cd. Juárez/El Paso where I was born, since a child I knew the moon to be, not the mother, but certainly the godmother of my soul . . . Much as I would have liked to believe, the moon was not mine alone; everyone loved her, and she kept appearing not only in the sky, but in the lines of the poems my father and mother read to me.

In "Thieving Moon," the poet writes of crime committed, crime that one loves to love, committed at night while one is in sleep:

The full moon peering
through my window
has scattered sleep,
She strikes from the crystals
sparks of colors
(nocturnal rainbows
full of absence).
Were she not so lovely
I would call the police
to come
for this thief of dreams.

It would seem that readers might grow tired of poems on a solo theme, but González's mastery of the verse enraptures. He writes in Spanish and English -- sometimes marrying the two in a single work, a single sentence. In "La musa lunática/The Lunatic Muse," he also includes Spanish and English versions for each poem. González best excels in his Spanish verse, an idiom in modern Chicano Literature now near extinction.

González has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize. In June 2007, he was honored for excellence in poetry at the 20th World Congress of Poets.

After reading "La musa lunática/The Lunatic Muse," readers will look up at the night sky, never to see the moon the same again. Every full moon's night, Rafael Jesús González' verse will certainly ring in our ears: "Sometimes the full moon / is so cold that is seems / not to deserve being so beautiful."

Raymundo Elí Rojas is the editor of the Pluma Fronteriza newsletter, which highlights El Paso's Chicano literary scene. He also edits Libros, Libros: New Books in Chicano/Latino Letters and the Pluma Fronteriza Blog, plumafronteriza.blogspot.com. Both focus on Chicano Literature.

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Solstice in the Streets actions, June 22, 2011

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Solstice in the Streets:

Celebrating the Earth

& the Rights of all

wherever you may be

If in San Francisco come meet at 11:00 AM on Wednesday, June 22, the day after Summer Solstice, at Embarcadero Plaza (Embarcadero BART station). Until 2:00 PM we will march, make music, dance, do street theater, spoken-word, and nonviolently demand a better nation and a better world. Be free to create your own art-action and join us.

Let us join together in community to celebrate the Earth and all life it sustains to reclaim our power and joy to oppose the institutions which are destroying the Earth and devastating people's lives.

Whether we are veteran artists and activists or stepping out for the first time, our actions will enliven the streets with our imagination of a healthy and compassionate world. Unite under the flag of the Earth and the International rainbow flag of Peace.

For up-to-date information & to post:

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=213233098687312

blog: http://solsticeinthestreets.blogspot.com/

Our imaginations are the limits.

Let us join to demand:

- Peace Not War

- Food Not Weapons

- Schools Not Prisons

- Sustainable Not Nuclear Energy

- Human Rights Not Oppression

- Equality Not Discrimination

- Justice for All

Not Privilege for the Few

- The Rights of the Earth

Not Profits for the Wealthy

and much more.

Send this message far and wide: put it on your Facebook page, your webpage, your blog, e-mail it to your lists, twitter it. Let us bring our joy and our outrage in a nonviolence protest of beautiful art and inspiration to awake us all to the changes we must make.

Solsticio en las calles:

Celebrando la Tierra

y los derechos de todos

dondequiera que se encuentren

Si en San Francisco vengan reunámonos a las 11:00 AM, Miércoles, Junio 22, día después del solsticio veraniego, en la Plaza Embarcadero (Estación Embarcadero de BART). Hasta las 2:00 PM marcharemos, tocaremos música, bailaremos, haremos teatro de calle, declamaremos poesía y sin violencia exigiremos una nación mejor y un mundo mejor. Seamos libres para crear nuestra propia acción de arte y acompáñenos.

Unámonos en comunidad para celebrar la Tierra y toda vida que sostiene. Unámonos para reclamar nuestro poder y nuestra alegría en oposición a las instituciones que destruyen la Tierra y devastan las vidas de la gente.

Si somos artistas y activistas veteranos o salimos por primera vez, nuestras accionesanimarán las calles con nuestra imaginación de un mundo sano y compasivo. Unámonos bajo la bandera de la Tierra y la bandera internacional arco-iris de la paz.

Para información más reciente y difundir:

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=213233098687312

blog: http://solsticeinthestreets.blogspot.com/

Nuestras imaginaciones son los límites. Unámonos para exigir:

- Paz No Guerra
- Comida No Armas
- Escuelas No Cárceles
- Energía Sostenible No Nuclear
- Derechos Humanos No Opresión
- Igualdad No Discriminación
- Justicia para Todos
No Privilegios para los Cuantos
- Los Derechos de la Tierra
No Ganancias para los Ricos

Y mucho más.

Difunde este mensaje por todas partes: ponlo en Facebook, tu página web, tu blog, envíalo en e-mail a tus listas, difundirlo de cualquier manera. Traigamos nuestra alegría y nuestra indignidad en protesta no violenta de arte e inspiración para despertarnos a los cambios que debemos hacer.

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full moon: Moon for a Witch

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--------Luna para una bruja

-----------------------a Star


La buena bruja se para
bajo la luna llena
e invoca los halcones de las estrellas
a cazar las estrellas oscuras
invisibles pero palpables
en los corazones fangosos
de los quienes blasfemaran
el aire sagrado, el fuego sagrado,
el agua sagrada, la tierra sagrada.
En espiral sus alas rozan
la cara llena de la luna,
esas aves del espíritu arco-iris,
la quinta cosa más sagrada.



-----------© Rafael Jesús González 2011

------Moon for a Witch

-------------------for Star


The good witch stands
under the full moon
& invokes the star-hawks
to prey upon the dark stars,
invisible but palpable
in the dank hearts
of those who would blaspheme
the holy air, the holy fire,
the holy water, the holy earth.
Spiraling, their wings brush
the full face of the moon,
these birds of the rainbow spirit,
fifth most sacred thing.



---------© Rafael Jesús González 2011

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