Monday, April 28, 2025

SHIKI: THE GLASS CLOUDING ~

 



Glass Window Tanka



sickroom
the glass door
I peer through —
can see sparrows
flying to the little pine


shut in the sickroom
the glass window
winter sun shining in —
lucky buttercup
blooming


morning and night
ueno woods lie across
the glass window —
I'll never be
tired of seeing


shut in for winter —
clouds cleared
in the glass door,
and I can see
tabi socks drying


crystal, glass door
I look through —
the house across, the roof
I can see
shepherd's purse blooming


thought I'd see
snow — the glass
in the glass window
clouded, I did not
see snow


out the window
I can see
even insects —
panes of crystal glass
are miracles


shut in the sickroom
out the window
the glass window
on the clothesline
I can see a crow cawing


crow perched
on the line —
does it look through
the glass door,
see me writing and caw


always lying
down — O, blessings
to you who put in
glass for me,
crippled here


crystal carriage
in the piling
snow —
I don't think I'll go
to the silver fields


glass put in,
waiting for snow —
tomorrow I'll see
snow piled
on the trees


dawn, outside
I see the snow —
someone
wiped dew
from the glass







Ugly Duckling Presse
            2024


Sunday, April 27, 2025

Friday, April 25, 2025

ROBERT CRUMB ~




April 23, 2025

 

THE ANTHOLOGY OF BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE POETRY ~

 







A treasure, truly. 
Poets well drawn and well built biographies.   
But, in the chapter "Affiliates" —
where is Cid Corman?



     The University of North Carolina Press
     2025



Night Landscape in Nelson County, Kentucky


ah, Moon, shine

thou as amber in thy

charred keg, hickory sky . . .


still as a still, steep

as a horse's face


JONATHAN WILLIAMS




A Piece


One and

one, two,

three.


ROBERT CREELEY




Calm down

what happens

happens mostly

without you


JOSEF ALBERS




from Twenty-Four Love Songs


20

When I heard the public story

of how they'd thrown away

their wedding rings, and how

the rings had been picked up

by the garbage men and taken

to the dump, and how laughing

finally they went out with flashlights

and found them that night I wondered

did they put them back on?


ED DORN




Imagine Inventing Yellow


Imagine inventing yellow or moving

For the first time in a cherry curve.


M.C. RICHARDS



Nine


It's not what

you think

it's something

else.


CYNTHIA HOMIRE




The Huron


I swam the Huron of love, and I am not ashamed,

It was many saw me do it, scoffing, scoffing,

They said it was foolish, winter and all,

But I dove in, greaselike, and swam,

And came up where Erie verges.

I would say for the expenditure of love,

And the atrophy of longing, there is no cure

So swift, so sleek, so fine, so draining

As a swim through the Huron in the wintertime.


RUTH HERSCHBERGER




Thursday, April 24, 2025

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

EARTH DAY ~

 




Earth Day


We met like this, on this day

and our life's work together

maybe who knows has saved it,

together with so many others

whose persistence stays the worst,

the few who do what they can

is enough; the love they bear

for all the living and the faint

translucent vision of a future

filled with sharing, a future

with men no longer on the take,

filled with planetary kindness:

those hopeful few, those brave

persistent few, a tiny band

that may have saved us all.



One Day


Listen! It's all so ordinary

mostly nothing happens

quotidian they call it

then one day grey fox

grabs a rabbit so quick

right outside my window

I watch her take off with it

and then we all return

to that ordinary day



_____________________________

Clifford Burke

Being Didactic

Desert Rose Press

2025




EARTH DAY 2 ~

 


     THE BLUE PLANET    
     A film by FRANCO PIAVOLI 1982