STORYTELLER ~

S T O R Y T E L L E R

New York Review of Books

2019

BIRTHDAY ~

As Robbie Robertson announced in The Last Waltz —

"Play Guitar? Eric Clapton!"

I announce —

"Love to write, read? Cesar Aira!"

[ BA ]

R E A D      O N

New Directions 

2019

GERRY LOOSE ~

days

drawn in

the watering can

upside down

against the

rain

strange

a moment

in darkness

a noise of

small rain.

To hold this

The slow

rise of

the bird in

the instant

before

landing.

from the deer path to my door

here doing what I do best

weeding reading drinking

*

tax bills deadlines work undone

I plan a seat around the sycamore

*

time spent with black parrot queen of the night tulip

bulbs why not working sitting

*

early bus to town for teachings better

follow the drumming woodpecker into the woods

*

woodpecker drumming lapwings

wings lapping all the way

*

the marble hall all suits & security

guards missing the rain in my garden

*

old lady scattering bread for birds

blossom stuck to her shoes all there is

*

daughter gone into the world

sometimes  leave her room light on

*

autumn leaves gather in corners

doing nothing most gets done

*

old cooking pot under sky where I wash my hands gardening stir up

little frogs carry them to the pond where geese now argue no

                                                                                               nothing

*

fell over drunk precepts

gone vow gone shin hurts palm hurts instep hurts

*

such a small beetle passes so

easily the written lines I labour over

*

stepping out for a piss I can't let the door

latch click listening to the owl's call

____________________

Gerry Loose

Printed On Water

Shearsman, 2007     

                           

THE FIELD ~

from The Field





One room, ten broken windows. No one comes

at nine, no one leaves at three.

At this school,

wild iris grows right to the door

and twenty birds, with sorrel and reeds,

return the field

to sky-blue eggs inside the eaves.



____________________

Robert Kusch
The Field
Red Moon Press
2003

ENNIO MORRICONE ~

E N N I O      M O R R I C O N E

1928 ~ 2020

M O R E

POETS WHO SLEEP #6 ~

P O E T S     W H O     S L E E P

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all drawings

copyright

Bob Arnold

BARON ( László Krasznahorkai ) ~

R E A D     M E

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