Monday, April 28, 2025
SHIKI: THE GLASS CLOUDING ~
Sunday, April 27, 2025
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Friday, April 25, 2025
THE ANTHOLOGY OF BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE POETRY ~
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