Tag: the friday influence
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* Stanley Kunitz & the friday influence
Touch Me - Stanley Kunitz Summer is late, my heart. Words plucked out of the air some forty years ago when I was wild with love and torn almost in two scatter like leaves this night of whistling wind and rain. It is my heart that’s late, it is my song that’s flown. Outdoors all […]
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* a little bit on process
Just finished a batch of 200+ poems and am sorting through them with the help of my editor/first reader/manager/lady in order to see if there’s a book in there. My process is simply to fill up a journal (those sleek/cliche Moleskines) and leave that journal alone for at least a year. When I come back […]
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* Louise Bogan, an update & the friday influence
Roman Fountain – Louise Bogan Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air, Reach to its rest, and fall. Bronze of the blackest shade, An element man-made, Shaping upright the bare Clear gouts of water in air. O, as with arm and hammer, Still it is good […]
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* Two poems up at cur.ren.cy!!!
Check out my poems “Bombs” and “Morning Communion” at cur.ren.cy: https://sites.google.com/a/currencylit.com/cur-ren-cy/ This online journal is run by the same good people as Right Hand Pointing. Enjoy!!! J
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* John Ashbery, the pit & the friday influence
Uptick - John Ashbery We were sitting there, and I made a joke about how it doesn’t dovetail: time, one minute running out faster than the one in front it catches up to. That way, I said, there can be no waste. Waste is virtually eliminated. To come back for a few hours to […]
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* thistleburrs & the friday influence
Song of the Barren Orange Tree – Federico Garcia Lorca * Woodcutter. Cut my shadow from me. Free me from the torment of seeing myself without fruit. Why was I born among mirrors? The day walks in circles around me, and the night copies me in all its stars. I want to live […]
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* travel update & some life sketches
Hello y’all! Since I am moving this week back to Oregon and am on the road as I write this, I decided I would forgo the usual Friday Influence post and share some life sketches. I will resume the usual astrologically-centered good times next week. Enjoy! *** walking in Flagstaff the folds of her […]
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* pennies, memory, & the friday influence
Brown Penny - WB Yeats I whispered, ‘I am too young,’ And then, ‘I am old enough’; Wherefore I threw a penny To find out if I might love. ‘Go and love, go and love, young man, If the lady be young and fair.’ Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, I am looped in the […]
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* life sketches from the road
she kills a spider on my shirt the stain the orange of fresh rust she says sorry and in the morning sun I do not know to who *** on the track I run in circles the birds get out of my way *** Happy running! J
The Friday Influence 