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Woodland Pattern™    Book   Center		Mike Hauser Mike Hauser grew up in the Township of Addison in Wisconsin. Two, among many, experiences had an early effect on him—staring out of his window at the blinking red lights of the communications tower a few miles away and hearing Groucho Marx's monologues in the movie Animal Crackers. Both were profoundly literary experiences. He started trying to write poetry after reading "Childhood" by Rimbaud. He edited the poetry portion of Furrow: Undergraduate Review of Literature and the Arts out of UW-Milwaukee. He got the university to pay for Alice Notley to come and read and then quit. He later resurfaced with dodo bird, a poetry magazine. He likes poems that are clear and poems that are not so clear. He doesn't see why seriousness and humor should be mutually exclusive and has a weakness for orange soda.

Atmosphere Poem Mike Hauser

I'm in love w/the atmosphere again tonight and lovely on such a night not to have been ditched by...oh I don't know Aphrodite or my own personal Jiminy Cricket and swell on a such a night as such to test the water levels touch the wet hand on my arm to my tasty brow (yucky!) without as such the filtration of B.O. or Holy Water (holy B.O.) though I like Holy Water I like anything Holy especially the Gee Willikers of sheer drink by the harbor of dreaming the selfish boats the bluing cheeks of the hand and the water in the hand and the sight of a sight being sighted nightly in the microwave dinner bowl the reheated chicken lucky to be not called chicken going to the circus with the Kaiser's nephews before you drift off to sleep and that's it that's why I'm in love w/ the atmosphere

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