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Hi! I can't believe it's been three years since I updated this journal! I was posting cool poems I liked here before. Did you guys like that?

I can keep doing that or do something different. Please register your vote in the comments below and we'll see what happens. :-) Suggestions welcome.

NEW FACEI have learned not to worry about love ( Read more... )

AMA CREDO

Needing
to go separate
along my green homings
barefoot to the thud
of fruit falling
solitaire calling
my compass, lodestar
glinting upmountain
hemmed in with pineneedles
canopied with sunsets
flaming me steeds
to stride
across sky on;
world softening
to mist
mornings shaking open
blue tablecloths
for me
to write big
and brief
on.

- ( Read more... )

SNOW

If we, as we are, are dust, and dust, as it will, rises,
Then we will rise, and recongregate
In the wind, in the cloud, and be their issue,

Things in a fall in a world of fall, and slip
Through the spiked branches and snapped joints of the evergreens,
White ants, white ants and the little ribs.

-Charles Wright

SUMMERMy neighbor frets about his lawn ( Read more... )

THE ONE SONG

I prefer to sit all day
like a sack in a chair
and to lie all night
like a stone in my bed.

When food comes
I open my mouth.
When sleep comes
I close my eyes.

My body sings
only one song;
the wind turns
gray in my arms.

Flowers bloom.
Flowers die.
More is less.
I long for more.

-Mark Strand

ANSWERERSThere are songs too wide for sound. There are quiet ( Read more... )

MY WEARINESS OF EPIC PROPORTIONS

I like it when
Achilles
Gets killed
And even his buddy Patroclus -
And that hothead Hector -
And the whole Greek and Trojan
Jeunesse doreeIs more or less ( Read more... )

HER KINDI have gone out, a possessed witch ( Read more... )

DIGGING INThis fall you will taste carrots ( Read more... )