Tag: poetry

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Sometimes Sometimes I can’t swallow truth any easier than a sparrow can swallow a tractor. Sometimes a sparrow’s view of the world is much more grounded than mine. Sometimes precise angles of knowing can make truth feel more acute, and less the degrees of separation from honesty. Sometimes the most honest truth is rain falling Read More

The Peace of Wild Things Or, How I am Feeling Today

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the Read More

Aware

  Slowly the moon is rising out of the muddy haze, Divesting herself of her golden shift, and so Emerging white and exquisite; and I in amaze See in the sky before me, a woman I did not know I loved, but there she goes, and her beauty hurts my heart; I follow her down Read More

January

  Again I reply to the triple winds running chromatic fifths of derision outside my window: Play louder You will not succeed. I am bound more to my sentences the more you batter at me to follow you. And the wind, as before, fingers perfectly its derisive music. William Carlos Williams, 1883-1963 From Sour Grapes (The Four Read More

October

Bending above the spicy woods which blaze, Arch skies so blue they flash, and hold the sun Immeasurably far; the waters run Too slow, so freighted are the river-ways With gold of elms and birches from the maze Of forests. Chestnuts, clicking one by one, Escape from satin burs; her fringes done, The gentian spreads Read More
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