Month: March 2024
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Clapper
Bells mark time, warn, call to prayeror action, mourn, stir, enchant the air,warn those on foot of what’s behind,announce real…
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Bob’s Music
Bob asks most people to call him Robert.“Bob is gone,” he said to his mother,“he doesn’t exist anymore,”but Jane insists…
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Le petit oiseau
“You smell like onions”she’s got her scarf around my neckour lips hold each other’s breathand we separate. “I do not.”There’s…
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You are no great kings
You are no great kings. Charlatans escapading in a quiet man’s affair: I wish snow would fall fasterso my footprints were…
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Book Review: “Songs of Seven Days”
If “Songs of Seven Days” is your first poetic encounter with this writer, you might be forgiven if you’d quickly…
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Oriyume
(from Japanese 夢 (yume, dream) + Japanese 折る(oru, to bend, to fold)) Water can refresh you orjust as easily drown…
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Linear
I am no longer linearat least not for this momentinto which I seem to have squeezedseveral other moments unexpectedly I…
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A Month Without Rain
What is there to be saidabout the humble foxglove?That the flowers that arebeautiful can be deadly, too?Commonplace. Like life, theweight…
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It Did Not Snow
It did not snow,but the jackdaws aregathering noisily,filling themuffled chill.Untranslatable.Are they content toremain frozen, too?With this time in between?To watch…