John Brandi / Steve Sanfield
All day I've been writing away on the final leg of the Longhouse Bibliography for the years 2008-2012. I'm at 2011 and thought to charge ahead and get more under the belt and then I opened the mail ~ and here was a new book by John and Steve (sent by Steve, with other loose poems to share) and I couldn't help myself but to read. Everything.
Then go out and snap a photograph
Then type you up some of the poems from the book
So you are here with me
Like these two guys are
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no clouds
but the sky fills
with snowflakes
solitude —
every knot on the floor
begins to move
another pal becomes a recluse
almost no one left
to not visit
unburned brush pile
beginning
to bud
three mistakes / two stumbles
and not even
out the door yet
jury summons
he wears exactly
what they told him not to
changing the stream's song
simply by moving
a stone or two
years of pine needles
on the path
soften his own fall
so happy for their visit
he opens the gate
for the swirling leaves
200 copies, text printed at Country Copy, Grass Valley, California
over image, printing & binding by Jerry Reddan, Tangram Press
