January 2010
1 post
My skull crashed against The trunk down across the trail - We’ve sagged since last spring.
Jan 19th
November 2009
1 post
All Thanksgiving day, Just begging for attention, Lone red mailbox flag.
Nov 26th
1 note
October 2009
2 posts
3 tags
Lost on Cold Mountain, Cliffs, torrents & blasted pines - I’ve sought for this site.
Oct 24th
1 note
1 tag
Rushing to my death Down a cataract of days At the speed of breath
Oct 11th
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September 2009
2 posts
Stanza from 'A Summer's Dream' by Elizabeth Bishop
Every night we listened for a horned owl. In the horned lamp flame, the wallpaper glistened.
Sep 14th
Chunks of flotsam washed up by the lazy surf of a...
The collective soul exists. I know because it just rejected my application for admission. Existence is futile! This slogan is meaningless.
Sep 12th
July 2009
1 post
Home to multitudes, Birthing foxes & midges, Their woods is now logged.
Jul 14th
June 2009
1 post
In a loud moment Breaking waves turn the lake white - Summer thunder storm.
Jun 19th
May 2009
29 posts
“ungainly at first a great blue heron rises above the trees what I’d...”
– K.A. Martin via twitter
May 31st
Hot humid Sunday People locked inside cool rooms Crows rule earth and sky
May 31st
back surgery
openmicro: the weight of wings upon my back and yet it is they that let me fly
May 27th
1 note
klindbeck: In warm rain a blue jay on a blooming tree a cardinal on the wire This is the kind of contrast one can feel at the roots of back teeth.
May 26th
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Recollections reflect Worn tales my mock self tells me - Polish the mirror
May 26th
Great gray-blue heron With water up to thin shins Glares through at his toes
May 25th
Thunder and sunshine It rained off and on all day - Lazy wet Sunday
May 24th
From 'Infinite Jest' by David Foster Wallace (p....
So huge and bloated, As a woman he induced Sexual despair
May 22nd
sometimesagreatnotion: The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of...
May 22nd
6 notes
Shinto by Jorge Luis Borges
ambivalence: When sorrow lays us low for a second we are saved by humble windfalls of the mindfulness or memory: the taste of a fruit, the taste of water, that face given back to us by a dream, the first jasmine of November, the endless yearning of the compass, a book we thought was lost, the throb of a hexameter, the slight key that opens a...
May 21st
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Having hatched alive, This flat snake froze a moment When the wheel rolled down
May 21st
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The More Loving One, W H Auden
midnight-radio: esthergreenwood: Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast. How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. Admirer as I think I am Of stars that do not...
May 21st
3 notes
Threadbare old tomcat Snores all spring in the rocker Mewing like a child
May 20th
“I have had my dream — like others — and it has come to nothing, so...”
– Thursday by William Carlos Williams
May 20th
Wet, cold, windy May So unlike Carolina That geese have flown south
May 20th
1 tag
Dreamer tried to tie A complex knotted lanyard For my tarot deck
May 17th
Seen through the window Crape myrtle tossed in a storm By the heat pump fan
May 17th
May 16th
In each root’s shadow Emerald moss huddles safely On the beaten trail
May 15th
“Let’s face it. I have been momentary. A luxury. A bright red sloop in the...”
– anne sexton (via tellherlies)
May 13th
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May 13th
49 notes
2 tags
Up late on the net Each dream has its URL In the web of sleep
May 13th
1 note
File complaint in space provided:
There’s an ragged patch Where my gold star ought a be - Metaphorically
May 10th
openmicro: I leave a coin Atop a fencepost To greet the moon Paiku
May 10th
1 note
May 7th
3 tags
Likely Epitaph (After Li Po)
Here lies John so drunk He fell from his boat and drowned Embracing the moon.
May 7th
Letter to my son:
Being sister-nipped Ain’t the same fucking thing as Being pussy-whipped.
May 6th
May 5th
2 notes
1 tag
My dog cat & I Share a single mind watching One mad buzzing fly
May 5th
April 2009
23 posts
2 tags
The Frog Princess kiss Thin lips of cool blue passion Her breath smells of flies
Apr 29th
1 tag
Apr 27th
4 tags
Fog in the dawn pines - Next a gunshot from nowhere Shatters the chill woods.
Apr 27th
But Odysseus Withstood Circe’s morphing wiles And the Siren’s songs
Apr 25th
Whirled in your orbit, Thirsty to plunge to your core Left parched wanting more.
Apr 25th
Are you the selkie In the whirlpool luring me To conversation?
Apr 25th
Mermaid or siren, Your heart’s intangible blood Pulsing beyond touch.
Apr 25th
Like Rilke’s angels The Greek’s bicameral minds Blown backwards trough time
Apr 25th
My virtual friend Sealed beneath the glass display Like you’d plunged through ice
Apr 25th
morningporch: Crows mobbing an owl, the sun breaking through clouds, a field sparrow’s cup filling to the brim… April is still an unknown country to me. Last year
Apr 22nd
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One black and white cow Converses deeply with grass In the green meadow.
Apr 21st
1 note
2 tags
In dream, 2 black dogs Disembowel one another In deadly silence.
Apr 19th
2 tags
“A certain scholar named Mr. Wang Was laughing at my poems for being so clumsy....”
– Han Shan (translated by Burton Watson)
Apr 14th