Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Should I write a poem about you

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  Should I write a poem about you; skin-tight, revealing like a bathing suit or a big coat to keep you hidden or warm. Would y...
Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Napalm

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  Napalm. Nice  to feel the sun on my back, to idle  the whole day through; watch girls ...
Thursday, August 17, 2023

Storm ( edited version)

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  Spent all evening alone on the strand watching a storm’s elbows resting on the horizon, but now its shoulders are rising. Once,...
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Marble

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  Morning. S tretch es her arm back to touch him, his bed-warmed skin; expect ing the familiar respon se , his finger down her bac...
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Monday, August 14, 2023

A Year of Flight

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Seeds in June, nonchalantly, like tourists flying on the south-westerlies, dawdling where snowflakes in January were hustled along or...
Monday, August 7, 2023

The Salmon in the Spring, the Hazel and the Hermit

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When to give up? An edited version of a oem from some years back.  The Salmon in the Spring, the Hazel and the Hermit Into an open gob the ...
Sunday, July 30, 2023

That Final Trespass

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  That final trespass: the undertaker preparing her corpse for viewing. When I knock at the door he all but screams “don’t come in”. ...
Friday, July 28, 2023

Our Death Offering to the Future

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  E verywhere, hu m a n s alteri ng the landscape, not just governmental, but farmers, developers: ourselves imposing designs on landsc...
Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Beyond Einstein

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  The y talk, panoplies of perception; Pic asso-like profusions. T ourbillions, the stones’ eyes as would r eflect in Van Gogh’s skie...
Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Woman at a window

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  A woman at a window; her back to us, still. Window in a blank wall, open to the sea; it flow s into her: the bay, oceans...
Monday, July 10, 2023

The Unifying Principle

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 An updated version of a poem from 2018 that was inspired by Cagall's weightless lovers. Love made us lighter than air; we careered, ...
Tuesday, July 4, 2023

What Victory Looks Like In A War Cemetery

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Sunday, July 2, 2023

In that moment

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  In th at moment their eyes told everything: the young woman in love, the older seeing a young suitor hamming it up . One smil ing...
Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Lough Graney

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  Lough Graney 1. Walk ing the jetty over the lake; l ying there. Eternity. A June afternoon in that place of peace...
Sunday, June 25, 2023

Explorer

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 This blog compels me to write, without it I don't think I'd have the motivation. Most would think twice about posting their undisti...