THE LIFE AND WORK OF JOHN BERGER ~

Verso

2018

NINTH STREET WOMEN ~

R E A D      M E 

Little, Brown

2018

LI SHANGYIN ~

Night Rain, Sent North



You ask when I'll be back but there is no when.

In the hills night rains are flooding autumn pools.

When will we sit and trim the wicks in the west window

and talk about the hills and night and rain?







Frost and Moon



I can hear the migrating geese. There are no cicadas here,

a hundred feet up in the tower from where the water meets the sky.

The Bluegreen Lady and the Pale Fairy don't mind the cold:

that's just the moon and frost bickering over who's prettier.








Parting Thoughts



The dance before the brook. I'm out of breath.

My heart is sore at Midnight's songs.

I've never found Canyon Cloud.

What do you want from ditchwater?

The geese have stopped delivering messages.

The bamboo grove by the Xiang is stained with tears.

I will never see the color of your face

unless I rely on these ripples.





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Li Shangyin

edited and translated by Chloe Garcia Roberts,
Lucas Klein and AC Graham

(New York Review of Books, 2018)

ALL'S WELL ~

new year, all's well

(photo ~ bob arnold)

ON THE LEVEL ~

(photo ~ bob arnold)

HAPPY NEW YEAR ! ~

New Year 2019

(photo ~ bob arnold)

EMILY IN SNOW ~

(photo ~ bob arnold)

ICE CURL ~

When ice can be loved

(photo ~ bob arnold)

ED OCHESTER ~

I've had this poem up for decades 

out in our woodshed 

because it's good to laugh

when you're working hard

FLYING! ~

Star Flyer

Scotland

TOWNES TALKS PANCHO AND LEFTY ~

ROSANNE CASH ~

JOHN LEE HOOKER ~

BO DIDDLEY TAKES THE STAGE ~

URSULA K. LE GUIN ~ (So Far So Good)

Theodora

I think how fine my mother was.

Her doings and her things were lovable.

Her turquoise bracelets, her violet

dinner dress with a jeweled waist.

The way when she was undressing

she'd go around with her nylons unhitched.

I think of all this now with tenderness

and comfort in the recollection.

Oh I was so angry at her when she died

for dying, but at last that's gone

and she comes to me again with silver

and turquoise on her wrists

in the sunlight.

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So Far So Good

Ursula K. Le Guin

Final Poems 2014-2018

Copper Canyon Press

THE BLASTERS ( FARM AID ) ~

LINK WRAY ( LIVE ) ~

THAT LONESOME VALLEY ~

GHOST RIDERS IN THE SKY ~

FIRST AID KIT LIVE ~