Manuscript Soup or The Poems that Didn’t Make it
Desert Ascent John of Climachus I. At eighty he still scales the ladder to God; so long spent on the thirty rungs that he...
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- Aug 23
- 3 min
How I Went from Reluctant Salesperson To “I Want This Book to Have Legs!”
This morning when I jumped out of the shower to write down a thought, it wasn’t a line for a poem. It was another place where I might...
- Jul 6
- 2 min
Poet as Sales Representative
Ambushed. The fear of failure comes at me, roaring, at two in the morning, making me aware of the dread-filled weight of responsibility....
- Jul 1
- 3 min
Walking Around Or How I discovered I would not go gentle into that good night.
It so happens I am tired of being the grey woman, and it happens that I walk into a vintage clothing store to find an item here with an...
- Jun 16
- 4 min
The Prospect of Unity
For David Humphreys It will take an outsized cape to swaddle this nation. It whips in the wind over a car dealership, provides no...
- May 29
- 3 min
Native
Where oh where is dear little Jimmy? Way down yonder in the paw-paw patch. Come on girls, let’s go find him. Pickin’ up paw-paws put ‘em...
- May 24
- 2 min
If Jasper Johns Was a Poet
I relearn my numbers in a grid arranged in the Chinese style, Beginning with the five in the center, I surround it with a zero, that...
- May 1
- 2 min
Mid-Century Ranch, Orange County
I cannot tell you what a bargain this is. . . . – “$7,500” Josephine Miles I cannot lie and tell you what a bargain this is. The owners...
- Apr 15
- 2 min
Loss Is Green
The little girl I baby-sit insists . . . Red Ghazal, Aimee Nezhukumatathil Humankind arrives, green disappears from the face Of the land,...
- Mar 28
- 4 min
Magdalen's Voices
Close, the desert silence brings Him close. Such silence flowered close around me two other times. Once, the day He drove the demons...
- Mar 25
- 3 min
songs of alagi
temple of brihadiswara 11th century a d we shall speak first of the emotions [rasa] nothing goes on in drama without emotion bharata in...
- Mar 13
- 3 min
Denial
Did I mention, if you stand on your head in the dark it is still dark? Yes, this morning when the clock said six a.m. it was still dark...
- Mar 6
- 3 min
Shrinking Bears
i. The only bears I know float in the sky. They appear in the dark only after I look north, find the Big Dipper, and sing a spell to...
- Feb 23
- 4 min
Rough Terrain
With thanks to Andrea Camilleri for “stanze di ricordi inutile” (room of useless memories) We outlast the silence rising Out of...
- Feb 21
- 3 min
Covered Bridge
The covered bridge nears completion, Built from the center of the roof out. Any amateur knows you begin Construction with the frame,...
- Feb 13
- 2 min
A Hoard of Books
There are rooms filled with shelves filled with paper books just like this all over this small floating planet. Is there a grimoire among...
- Feb 4
- 2 min
The Dog Takes it All in Stride, but the Cat’s Gone into Hiding
My husband unleashes beasts at our house, not just Bottom with his ass’s head escaped from a dream, but pot-bellied demons from Japan and...
- Jan 30
- 3 min
She Turns Her Back to Me
Variétés Apollinaris, 1953 Joseph Cornell She’s just a paper girl with her attention on the ground before her. Birds flutter around her...
- Jan 19
- 2 min
Alaskan Diner
Fluorescent lights buzz Shadows etched in my face Gray winter day Visiting Anna in Alaska over Christmas break altered my sense of winter...
- Jan 14
- 3 min
[The sound of breathing calms me:]
The sound of breathing calms me: Years of meditation practice come down to a chant, In, out. When thoughts interrupt each other on their...
Too long for a journal? Too short for a chapbook? From time to time I will offer something more substantial than a tasty morsel. For example, I want Playing in the Field of Robert Duncan to be read as one poem.
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