Poetry and the Contemporary World
"I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me."
- Oct 12, 2020
- 1 min
Serenissima (a collaborative poem)
Just behind-- to one side of this koten canvas-- & reared up from base to top is a shady dome receding through the haijin’s Art: with...
- Oct 12, 2020
- 1 min
Palabras
( inspired by a photo I recently saw of Margot and her father) There’s a word for dad and daughter, for heart and the loneliest anemone...
- Oct 12, 2020
- 1 min
Daniel Hill
At a Missions garden of Nile lilies, and yucca, a ginger paradise, lush, looking about ready to burst bloody to its toes: and through a...
- Oct 12, 2020
- 1 min
Autumn lake
Maybe the sand that holds up its end of a very cold lake can also sop storm surges, & the pesky zebras, passing through, that attach to...
- Oct 12, 2020
- 1 min
Kell verses (for Katherine L. Gordon)
She sits in her stone seat,beside two tractor wheels,musing, the jug beneath her feet,earth of clay at her heels-- dear Kate, prophetess...
- Oct 12, 2020
- 1 min
"Poème Apparition" (A translation)
La lune s’attristait. Des séraphins en pleurs Rêvant, l’archet aux doigts, dans le calme des fleurs Vaporeuses, tiraient de mourantes...
- Oct 12, 2020
- 1 min
Canatara (for Colleen)
Even with lethal Tree &indomitable leaf, the woods breathe in frost and breathe out warm sandy shores, a water's cresting scent A forest...
- Oct 12, 2020
- 1 min
"Felicissima"
Always dear but curving close to the door, cats like this can peel the light off a star-- slip it slyly under an eye, & still sleep A...
- Oct 12, 2020
- 1 min
Caro cardo: Jules
There's a moose sprawled on the highway as some spiritual food (pierced to its poor minnow heart) saying no to decay, exemplarily and...
- Oct 12, 2020
- 1 min
Composite catholic
"Life is short, eternity is long" (John Henry Newman) _______ It was face, and it was eyes, at first The asphyxiating power of chins--...
- Oct 12, 2020
- 2 min
Mary the obstinate (forMagdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón)
In Ephesus, standing somewhere between the hovel where Mary supposedly had spent her final years and the remains of the temple to Diana,...
- Oct 12, 2020
- 1 min
The muse of Kilally Meadows(1)
A shiny leaf-haunted chestnut squats in dirt And the squirrel tail robust enough to sweep down hard on it, after a rain, is gentle also A...
- Oct 12, 2020
- 1 min
The muse of Kilally Meadows(2)
A hawk moves slyly,prey-shadowing, in one hand an edible root, the other clenched tight over the meadows The pupil in the eye shrinks to...
- Oct 12, 2020
- 1 min
The muse of Kilally Meadows (3)
I felt the heart of a lake say to me, only me, "Harvest the little things, gristly like shiners & spiders; bring the moon down, round as...
- Oct 12, 2020
- 1 min
The muse of Kilally Meadows (4)
A macky who eats a whole rat gnawed down to the tail is the same that swims in cold meadows; screwing the mouth to the side, he sends a...
- Oct 10, 2020
- 1 min
The muse of Kilally Meadows (5)
Like they'd done before, the maples will throw their darkness at him Sad with all those thoughts, and looking sort of thin, he twists...