THE ORLONS ~

 

A girl group with a guy!

Steve Caldwell

LAST LETTER TO A READER ~

R E A D       M E 

REBECCA SOLNIT CELEBRATES TREES & HELENE JOHNSON ~

brainpicker · The Universe in Verse: Rebecca Solnit Reads "Trees at Night" (1925) by Helene Johnson

CLEAR AS A BELL ~

 

Roxane Gay

U V A L D E    T E X A S   S H O O T I N G

ATHLETE ~

 

     Steve Kerr

    HOW - TO

WITTGENSTEIN, PRIVATE NOTEBOOKS (1914-1916) ~

 

R E A D      M E

HERE IT IS ~

 

"Putin Showed His Hand.

The West Kept Shaking It."

G O    T O    I T

Master Guitarist of The Sahara: Ali Farka Touré ~

 

THAT TIME OF YEAR ~

 

photograph by bob arnold

spring 2022

THE POSSIBLE PLEASURES ~

 

THE POSSIBLE PLEASURES by Lynn Valente

$14.99

 

I save very good poems to read late at night — it’s late at night.”

–Bob Arnold, author of Once In Vermont, Gnomon Press

Woodcutter's Autumn

Geese above

barking like dogs

open the gate

to our dark fence

and let in some thoughts

we put away for good —

of summer, that tourist

who took off fast

in his big car

and never paid taxes.

We'll be paying now —

Who let in these thoughts?

From carrying them home

my arms will ache

all winter.

________________________

Lynn Valente

The Possible Pleasures

Finishing Line Press, 2021

ROBERT SUND ~

 

Shakti

She lies down on her side and fills the valley.

In the lowlands her legs are a river;

alder trees and wild winter bushes

shimmer in the windy rain.

In the mountain her breasts are blue

and snow clouds sweep across them.

In the bend of her knee

are a thousand farms.

When she dances

rain clouds are broken apart

by the sun flying across her shoulder.

When she sleeps and dreams

a thousand geese sing her praises.

_____________________

Robert Sund

First Glimpse of Swallows

Brooding Heron Press, 2022

ELSPETH BARKER ~

 

E L S P E T H      B A R K E R

1940 - 2022

Jane Bown/The Observer

CLEVELAND CROCHET & THE SUGAR BEES ~

 

POISON GARDNER & HIS ALL STARS ~

 

STAR GUIDES ~

 

Star Clusters / Hubble

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For all searching guides for the world above (the stars)

we'd like to recommend two books for your library

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RICKY GARDINER ~

 

RICKY GARDINER

THE FAIRFIELD FOUR ~

 

EUGENIO MONTALE ~

 

Times at Bellosguardo

Oh now there in the glittering

stretch that bends toward the hills

the hum of evening lessens

and the trees chat with the hackneyed

murmur of the sand; and how this common life

no longer owned by our breath

gets channeled there, crystalline,

into orders of columns

and willows at the edges

and great moats in the gardens

by the overbrimming pools,

and how a sapphire light returns

for the men who live down there: it is too sad

such peace should enlighten in glimmers

and everything then roll on, with intermittent

flashes over the steaming riverbends,

with intersecting chimneys

and shouts from the hanging gardens

and consternation and long laughter

over patched roofs, among the arrases

of massed branches and a brilliant tail

that trails across the sky before

desire can find the words!

____________________

Eugenio Montale (1896-1981)

Poems

translated by Jonathan Galassi

Everyman 2012

JIMMY MARTIN & RALPH STANLEY ~

 

DON GARDNER & DEE DEE FORD ~

 

WILMA LEE & STONEY COOPER ~

 

ROCK CONCERT ~

 

R O C K

Grove

2021

N.H. PRITCHARD: THE MATRIX 1960-1970 ~

 

G O     R E A D

BIG MAMA THORNTON ~

 

Live At The Rising Sun Celebrity Jazz Club 1977

NIC JONES ~

 

RAY BRADBURY ~

 

The Library of America, 2021

R E A D      M E

ELIZA GRISWOLD ~

Water Table

My earliest wish was not to exist —

to burst in the backyard

behind the rectory

where no one would see me.

This wasn't a plea to be found

or mourned for, but to be unborn

into the atmosphere. To hang

in the humid air, as ponds vent upward

from the overheated earth,

rise until they freeze

and crystallize, then drop

into the aquifer.

________________

Eliza Griswold

If Men, Then

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

2020

PETE DRAKE ~

 

BANSKY ~

 

R E A D     M E

MIT Press

2021

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A work by English graffiti artist Banksy is seen on a wall in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Friday, Dec. 21, 2007

JUDY HENSKE ~

 

J U D Y    H E N S K E

Dec. 20, 1936, Chippewa Falls, WI. ~ L.A. April 27, 2022