Poetry

A rank of clouds

By on Sep 13, 2011 in Cuttings, Poetry | Comments Off

A rank of clouds serried and clothespinned up which like a flock shocked by a sudden pop scatter in a swivet break up.   Passion Contents

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Before Sleep

By on Sep 13, 2011 in Cuttings, Poetry | Comments Off

Before sleep words titter totter under the bed, deep six in the recess.   Passion Contents

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Keeping and Letting Go

By on Sep 12, 2011 in Poetry | Comments Off

Let go of everything but the baby. Keep what needs you; the rest will keep. Let go of meaning, time, and money — keep the soft currency of sleep. Let go of jobs, hobbies and any keepsakes with an expensive shape. Let go of friends, ambitions, and worry. Keep your left hand free to wipe. Let go of music, museums, and history; keeping her close is your only hope. Let going wait until she’s ready — keep disappointing the urge to grow up.   Passion...

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Nature Morte

By on Sep 12, 2011 in Poetry | Comments Off

  A goblet of Ruby ichor, Immortal quiet. A long-necked Jug, bedizened With golden straw. Peasant’s summer plenty: Bread, terrene-tan, Green figs a-split, Vulnerable. Basket’s silent meekness. Dried sea anemones, Stiff above. A pied nautilus, Fluted clamshell, Perlucent sheath. A starfish, Dessicated. Desperate. Groping for the wet. All still. Still, life. Still life.   Passion...

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A Moment

By on Sep 12, 2011 in Poetry | Comments Off

a hover of crows over mossy horizon, small against the underbelly of a skywide dove. the bay so still. hills soft as deer. beyond their chert flanks a few rufous flecks of cranberry. and always the spruce, those scepters comprising scepters, lithe in the wind, exulting, with their great green wings, beyond the curve of the Earth.   Passion...

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Dried Herbs

By on Sep 12, 2011 in Poetry | Comments Off

she catches the moment of herbs moon-high or tide-low picks their fragrancies leaves them drying in the dark before they can blossom into streams of sunlit dust   their patterns of wait droop    wither   crumble retaining through dormancy echoes of last year’s flower   Passion...

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