Sunday night poetry interlude
So I’m rifling through every single thing I own, trying to toss what’s expendable and pack what’s not. I came upon my stack of Collages, dating back to the mid-’90s (working in what used to be the...
View Article‘My Time’
by Leonard Cohen (from the Book of Longing) My time is running out and still I have not sung the true song the great song I admit that I seem to have lost my courage a glance at the mirror a glimpse...
View ArticleThere is nothing original in this world
That’s something we know. And yet when we create we do our best to try for something new anyway, against the damned odds. I’m always slightly amused/horrified when I belch up something (that’s always...
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An overused quote, but one I think of often
Risk And then the day came, when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to Blossom. – Anaïs Nin
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Madness in the spring
A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown — Who ponders this tremendous scene — This whole Experiment of Green — As if it were his own! “1333,” Emily...
View Article‘Out of the ash, I rise with my red hair, and I eat men like air’
A great poem and an even greater reading of it. HT: Sully
View ArticleNoli timere
I love this: His voice quavering, the son of Seamus Heaney has told mourners of his father’s final words, minutes before his death. At a requiem mass in Dublin, crowded with mourners, Michael Heaney...
View Article‘My instinct, a poor Polaris’
I heard Jennifer Chang read her poem “Again A Solstice” on the radio this morning. It’s wonderful. Listen here. Read here.
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‘This is it’
“What the Living Do” by Marie Howe Johnny, the kitchen sink has been clogged for days, some utensil probably fell down there. And the Drano won’t work but smells dangerous, and the crusty dishes have...
View ArticleCalluses
I cut my calluses slice through them with clippers, knives, scissors sometimes down to the meat past the dead unfeeling part to the part that bleeds It bubbles right up like crude, pressurized It’s...
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