Departures is KCET's hyper-local web documentary, community engagement tool and digital literacy program about the cultural history of Los Angeles' neighborhoods.
Philomene Long - America
Philomene Long reciting America at the Venice Grind (starts at 0:59). Recording by Pegarty Long. Below is another poem by Philomene Long, Ghosts of Venice West.
Ghosts of Venice West
They are already ghosts
John and Philomene
As they pass
Along the Boardwalk
Where ghosts and poets overlap
As they pass, the gulls
Ghosting above their shadows
Everything's haunting everything
Already ghosts
John and Philomene
Under the ghostly lampposts
Of Venice West
Their cadence
The breath of sleep
At rest
Lost at the edge of America
Already ghosts
And each poem
Already a farewell
Everything's haunting everything
The sea is the ghost of the world
Philomene Long was a poet prominent in the Venice Beat movement during the 1950s and 1960s married to poet John Thomas.
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