A Poem for F.N. Wright by S.A. Griffin
Fred Blows Out The Sun’s Electric Candles
for F.N. Wright, 1940-2012
and makes an infinite wish to celebrate the
happy birthday of everything
trout fishing with Brautigan
along the shores of golden eternity
somewhere beyond the cartoon apocalypse
of this whorehouse sadness
inside some tropic of light
Kenneth and your beloved Miriam
to catch you in their nets of love and language
and you are here
always
the crickets playing your song
fuck fuck fucking
as we all sing along
ride free Fred, rest easy
the war is over
The Lady’s loving kisses
(with roses in her hair)
to bring you home again
S.A. Griffin
3/16/2012
–Pictures courtesy of S.A. Griffin
March 18, 2012 at 7:24 am
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March 18, 2012 at 7:38 am
S. A. always blows toward the sky.
March 18, 2012 at 8:08 am
everybody is different but we somehow connected through poetry, through words. I think fred had a lot of friends like that. I guess you really don’t choose your friends, they just happen. Despite our different paths in life we both were dreamers and that was the bond. maybe it was like that with most of fred’s friends. I would come up with an idea and he would get excited and start painting or writing then I would have to follow through. In his last week with death already in his eyes he was still planning, still dreaming, still painting with words the color of friendship, always Fred.
so pound dog next time it rains, paint me a rainbow like only you can….
March 18, 2012 at 9:53 am
I’m saddened that someone so many respected and admired has passed away..I am excited that I get to know this poet through his words, yours and theirs..
SA, this poem is gorgeous in all it’s wonderful bounty..
Rusty Truck..you never let us down, ever..
lynne
March 18, 2012 at 10:02 am
A beautiful tribute…
March 18, 2012 at 9:15 pm
love it.
March 19, 2012 at 12:47 am
Patchen used an underwood
March 19, 2012 at 7:36 pm
I’ve got wet eyes, S.A. I didn’t know him well- only a few message exchanges, but they were memorable. Thank you for adding this beautiful poem to his memory.
March 19, 2012 at 8:07 pm
its always nice seeing new work by sa. i miss that guy.
March 20, 2012 at 11:35 pm
Fred is dead
That’s what I said
Fred didn’t know me except from what he’d read of mine.
Considering I don’t even seem to write anymore,
I’m wary of anyone who thinks of me as a writer.
Fred saw past that.
He saw that people write words,
that get them labeled:
“Writers”
Fred’s spelling and punctuation were
worse than Todd Moore’s.
Really.
His emails looked like some retarded, drunk guy typed them.
Then you’d read them.
“Wave to the family for me.”
He was all heart.
I loved that about him.
And he was clever. He used to take all those dumb emails your retarded drunk friends send to you and make them into stories he’d sell to magazines. All those emails I’d sent to the trash? Fred sold the same ones I’d send to the trash.
Clever guy.
Someone told me Fred was dead. It stopped me.
Nothing stops me anymore. I have a girl friend, and she has kids, and we all live in a house my girl friend spends her day working to afford. I work too. And nothing gets my attention any more.
Getting mail from Fred in real life stopped me. And his passing stopped me.
Some people you’ll miss, you know?
Love you Fred.
-Father Luke
March 24, 2012 at 9:07 pm
FN Wright was something, and he made us smile. I remember him asking for a number right after I gave it to him and it became a joke, I kept sending it and he kept asking, back and forth. Why? Because he could laugh at this kind of thing. Play along.
I didn’t meet him in real life, but these days online connections matter and we do bond in different ways, small and significant.
You can’t help but give props to somebody that had an impact on so many. I’m glad his family knows how many people care.
March 25, 2012 at 6:36 pm
So good, S.A. You speak with the words of angels.
March 27, 2012 at 6:50 pm
A good poem, S.A. Never new Wright on or off the page, but now, because of what I’ve read here, will get hold of some book or other that he wrote.
March 27, 2012 at 9:43 pm
Thankyou SA! If you see my post can you email me please at lisabrandenburg@hotmail.com.