Tag: the friday influence
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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
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Alan Berecka, dichotomy, and a change
My brother-in-law tells me often, poems once rhymed. (from The Evolving Case for De-evolution) *** The above lines are from the book Remembering the Body (Mongrel Empire Press) by poet Alan Berecka. The book, as hinted by these lines, takes on the preconceived notions of both poetry and life. Dichotomy is the name of the game. …
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* nerve, context, & the friday influence
The Red Poppy – Louise Gluck The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me. I have a lord in heaven called the sun, and open for him, showing him the fire of my own heart, fire like his presence. What could such glory be if not a…
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* an admission and the friday influence
Watermelons – Charles Simic * Green Buddhas on the fruit stand. We eat the smiles and spit out the teeth. *** So, I’m going to come clean and admit that I’m a geek about astrology. I don’t swear by it but I do check my horoscope daily and find my chart to be an interesting…
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