Poetry and the Contemporary World
"I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me."
- Oct 10, 2020
- 1 min
Morning prayers
"I don't want to be who you are! I want to be myself, someone playing with language" (Robert Bly) ________ You say, 'Blot out the leaves...
- Oct 10, 2020
- 1 min
Track and Field
(I reflect back on things that always used to distract me from my Track and Field duties like neighbouring forests, birds & escarpments)...
- Oct 10, 2020
- 1 min
Dream
"The real conflict is not between Christianity and 'nature', but between Christian principles and other principles in the control of...
- Oct 10, 2020
- 1 min
Natural Medicine (for Penn)
She came at my request, at last. And in reply to my, "What can it be?" said sagely, taking a close look around— "Look, it's as if...
- Oct 10, 2020
- 1 min
December bird
I 'd have to sit with you, too, splayed into light, taken along and receive teaching (as I know you do) from the rugose tree and throw...
- Oct 10, 2020
- 1 min
Advice for ‘Teuta the Queen’
You can frogmarch young Romans tired of drill and sick of ensilage (as the young & lazy are), too lingual for their own good; or fly on...
- Oct 10, 2020
- 1 min
Who is she?
With an elongate rather wet smile, she just likes to look! But she's a lady who creeps through the clouds,in her strapless and shawl and...
- Oct 10, 2020
- 2 min
Sophia
(inspired by my reading of the Nag Hammadi) "Follow the clue patiently and you will understand nothing" (Basil Bunting) ------ Seth...
- Oct 10, 2020
- 1 min
Kateri
(for Steve Catlin, my brother, who left a copy of this at her grave in Kahnawake, Quebec.) (1): “flight” Dear umbrous squat Kateri...
- Oct 10, 2020
- 1 min
A Translation of Catullus 51 (Lesbia)
Catullus Ille mi par esse deo videtur, ille, si fas est, superare divos qui sedens adversus identidem te spectat et audit dulce ridentem,...
- Oct 10, 2020
- 1 min
Consolatio
"You were always right, and your holiest inspiration/is Death" (Rilke) --------- (for Danny Frederick) Even with all the sighing and...
- Oct 9, 2020
- 1 min
From my zero-gravity chair
a garden! where any American friend and curly tree, spaced between the clouds and wind, would love to be The rabbit known by scent and...