Category Archives: poetics
Rain
space Our town has seen little rain all year. Brushfires hang their smoky rags in the air for all to breathe with lungs of dearth already narrowed by swamp allergens. Char-ochres crayon burning dreams, scotched lawns silo each day’s scorched … Continue reading
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Sea-Copyist
space Quite the fool’s errand, eh Lord, measuring the breadth and depth of wildest seas with just these thimbles of white paper, a copyist in the sea’s scriptorium, writing down its book wave by gale by gloom. Might as well … Continue reading
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Sunday Morning
This poem was written on Easter morning, 2001. space Last summer when you and I were trying to repair first word of my affair —- days when you raged so at the badness of it all -— there was a … Continue reading
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The Poetics of Because
Photo: Tracey Grumbach space What comes after. What blooms because. Not the World Trade Center but its deeper pools of pouring souls. Not the starry gambol but its slow ruin into rain-streaked panes. Not the wooing but the way love … Continue reading
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Salt Psaltery
space Up from the shore the work ensues no longer lost to water. Or so it seems: the trial feels finished, psalmed enough inside the surf’s black mouth to caul all Hell in pinkest dawn. The day is calm … Continue reading
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Camera Obscura
space Why is it that cameras are forbidden in dreams? At least, that’s the word I’ve gotten for two nights straight, first when I wanted to take a picture of my wife sleeping bathed in early light from the sun’s … Continue reading
Poets Anonymous
space What are all those fish that lie gasping on the strand? – Yeats Welcome friend, have some coffee to dispell the chill and rest that tired tailfin a while in this white plastic chair. … Continue reading
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Graveyard Shift At The Crystal Cabaret
space Four to six a.m.’s my show, scrubbing the tables and running the vacuum, Journey on the PA system blasting evergreen desire over the night’s trashed pasties. The mess is predictable, the squalor of lust that pays such a high … Continue reading
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The Old Forest Road
space Taking a myth as one’s own is a way of reading opaque events. I have long believed that one’s personal history is simply a branch of a larger tree of mystery, the world’s larger soul re-written in the small … Continue reading
Filed under Alchemies, Archetypal Mythology, Art and Heart, Arthurian Romance, Celestial events, Consciousness, Creativity, Culture, Death, Devotions, Folklore, Forest Shenanagans, Grails, Grief, History, Madness and Mania, Mind, Mystery, Myth and Archetype, Natural Supernatural, Nature, Oran, Otherworlds, poetics, Poetry, Post-Christianity, Shamanism, Spirituality, The Dark, The Future, Voyagers
First and Last and Ever
space Each poem sails toward You, first and last and ever, singing wild in the surgency of the next blue curl, hard smash, pale sigh. The cavern of my Isolde reveals her secret door in drowned Ys only and ever … Continue reading
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