I won’t check the news right now if you won’t. Instead, let’s think about summer peaches so ripe we’ll eat them leaning over the kitchen sink, or the crunching sound of walking on snow, and that dusty smell of the first rain, Let’s imagine how it would feel to put on warm socks right out […]
Poetry
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I Sang Guthrie For Guthrie in a Psych Ward
Baby, I sang Guthrie for Guthrie in a psych ward in ’61 Ode to the times, the times gone bye…Oh the times, they’re always a-changin’. Back then, a penny was worth something. Now, we just keep ‘um to smash ‘um Don’t think twice but time never stands still Yeah, now I cover Coldplay, and tour […]
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Rules for Living
Nobody wants to hear your story about how you almost didn’t choose the winning team in the March Madness bracket. Believe me. Nobody. Iain Macdonald
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Lingerings
We all leave our marks In the canopies of life, Breathlessly branching. Kirk Gothier
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SUBATOMIC
Each up, each down, each strange, and every charm that naively splits the atom from which ghost particles emerge and leave us puzzling over metaphors and their meaning, leads us closer to the place where we either grasp the existence of the Divine, or the necessity of it. You decide. Adrienne Veronese
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Midwinter Day
The air is crisp Sunshine streaming through the window With a bite A gentle breeze plays with the curtain. Trees jut up on The horizon, a row of clouds Blanket them Shaded dark as they ready for rain. Two birds, a third Appear in view as they frolic Across the sky A bar of blue […]
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Untitled
Looking Out Towards endless waves Rolling in effortlessly Changing coastlines In ways unimaginable Just a few years ago. The air we now breathe Is no longer sustainable And our only planet Just continues to spin Out of control Looking In — Kirk Gothier
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Flying to the Desert
On the plane, Next to me; Her book is Arabic, while The big fellow in front; Tattoos all over, hugs his daughter, Whispering thoughts, To her demurred, shy smile lighting The seats where we sit next To an old man from China going To see his son after some twenty years: Typing Chinese characters into […]
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thoughtexperiment (gulls in the dunes)
when you find yourself under a fleet of gulls your wonder is as far as your wonder can justly take you. you just can’t reach out and take this gull, winter plumed and tilted. you cannot know this gull by force. gedanken says the old teacher who suffered no god-shaped hole. if you can you […]
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The Gathering
They wait silently in the trees and bushes For the seeds I throw Every morning on the wooden deck The juncos a variety of sparrows One with a missing tail who, when they all descend, makes his way among the others like a little roly poly A spotted towhee colorfully outfitted in flaming orange, black, […]
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Mud
Dancing in puddles Digging in mud The things that all toddlers Do with great love. And we have a toddler All covered in fur Who dances And prances And burrows in mud. He runs for the house And sneaks in the door Tossing and smearing His mud on the floor. We give chase with a […]
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Hiking the New Year
Not bothering with resolutions, I celebrate the New Year by hiking. I start with the hills in the park nearby, legs burning from doing nothing all fall, all year. Days later I hike out to Headwaters, find myself soaked in sweat and struggling to catch my breath trudging up the two-mile hill above three-mile bridge. […]