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Poetry Friday

BIRCH

Bone-spur, stirrup of veins—white colt a tree, sapling bone again, worn to a splinter, a steeple, the birch aground

in its ravine of leaves. Abide with me, arrive at its skinned branches, its arms pulled from the sapling, your wrist taut,

each ganglion a gash in the tree’s rent trunk, a child’s hackwork, love [...]

Poetry Friday

JUNE LIGHT

Your voice, with clear location of June days, Called me outside the window. You were there, Light yet composed, as in the just soft stare Of uncontested summer all things raise Plainly their seeming into seamless air.

Then your love looked as simple and entire As that picked pear you tossed me, and [...]

Poetry Friday

I DO NOT LOVE THEE

I do not love thee!—no! I do not love thee! And yet when thou art absent I am sad;    And envy even the bright blue sky above thee, Whose quiet stars may see thee and be glad.

I do not love thee!—yet, I know not why, Whate’er thou dost [...]

Poetry Friday

TO . . .

You have been my love for so many years, It makes me dizzy to think of so much hope, And my dizziness won’t be aged, or cooled; Even by what waited for our death, Or slowly learned how to fight us, Even by what is foreign to us, Or by [...]

Poetry Friday

For Matt & Melissa; may the two of you share a long and happy life.

UNTITLED

What is the beginning? Love. What the course. Love still. What the goal. The goal is Love. On a happy hill Is there nothing then but Love? Search we sky or earth There is nothing out of Love [...]

Poetry Friday

THE KITE AND THE HAWK

Man is no longer alone in the universe!

The day I found the hieroglyphic formula For happiness for all mankind I had to promise to give it away.

It is we have to find a way For everyone to have one more of something Than your neighbor has

For you–here [...]

Poetry Friday

A LOVE SONG

What have I to say to you When we shall meet? Yet— I lie here thinking of you.

The stain of love Is upon the world. Yellow, yellow, yellow, It eats into the leaves, Smears with saffron The horned branches that lean Heavily Against a smooth purple sky.

There is no light— [...]

A Letter to a Lost Love

My dearest Sleep –

Fuck you and the horse on which you rode into my life … and right back out of my life. I asked you nicely, and you just laughed in my face.

You know how much I care about you … why must you be so elusive, playing hard to get? [...]

Poetry Friday

TO AUTUMN

O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou mayst rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe, And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers.

“The [...]

Video Poetry (business as usual edition)

SAGE FRANCIS – THE BEST OF TIMES

It’s been a long and lonely trip but I’m glad that I took it because it was well worth it. I got to read a couple books and do some research before I reached my verdict. Never thought that I was perfect. Always thought that I had [...]