Burning Man 2011 Photos by Shane Butler & 3:15 Experiment Poem: What Beckons

Tuesday August 2, 2011
3:15am
Toni’s on Turk, SF, CA

From deep sleep
the alarm beckons

I scramble to obey
to do its bidding

The dream so real
so complex moments before

has all but whispered
into the foggy depths of night

It was warm & pleasant there
and I’m ready to scurry back now

c. Gwendolyn Alley
2011 3:15 Experiment

Thanks to Shane Butler for the use of his photo of Peter Hudson’s magnificent zoetrope “Charon” and of the Man during the Burn 2011 with an array of art cars in front. Click on the images to make them bigger and see more detail.

Want to know more about

me? Here’s an article from the August 25 VC Reporter by Michel Cicero about Gwendolyn Alley aka Art Predator.

 If you’re local to Ventura, I hope you will join me for a reading of my 3:15 experiment poetry and book signing this Thursday 9/15 at Bank of Books on Main near downtown Ventura at 7pm.

In March 2011,  en theos press published my 3:15 experiment poetry collection Middle of the Night Poems from Daughter to Mother :: Mother to Son,in print and ebook; it’s also at Amazon.com, and in stores including The Best of VC Marketplace in Santa Paula where I will be signing books Thurs. Sept. 29.

Middle of the Night traces my journey  from being a daughter to becoming a mother to losing my mother from the perspective of poems written at 3:15am in August from 2002-2010 as part of the international 3:15am poetry writing experiment.Read more sample poems or a review of Middle of the Night Poems by Robert Peake or a review of Middle of the Night Poems by

Danika Dinsmore.

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