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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 cat man of Aleppo (2)

When they’re out of his fields, and the lone husky heart of the cat-saint takes one in , look on a bit & wait. The two or three others,...

The cat man of Aleppo (4)

The cat-saint says,” If I cannot follow him to the damp & dark from which he comes, cradled first in the needle bed and rocks-- then then...

The cat man of Aleppo (5)

The cat-saint, reflecting on one in particular, finds time to say, “Rains can't wither tails any more nor a tabby's puff-cheeks, powdery...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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--...

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