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Poetry and the Contemporary World

"I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me."

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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...

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...

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)...

Dream

"The real conflict is not between Christianity and 'nature', but between Christian principles and other principles in the control of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Sophia

(inspired by my reading of the Nag Hammadi) "Follow the clue patiently and you will understand nothing" (Basil Bunting) ------ Seth...

Kateri

(for Steve Catlin, my brother, who left a copy of this at her grave in Kahnawake, Quebec.) (1): “flight” Dear umbrous squat Kateri...

Consolatio

"You were always right, and your holiest inspiration/is Death" (Rilke) --------- (for Danny Frederick) Even with all the sighing and...

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