09-20-2016, 10:15 PM
River, thank you for sharing these. I really enjoyed all of them.
Some parts I especially liked:
from Hometown: "On this piece of ancestor land, My pulses slowed, I am at peace. I have no wish but this place -- To remain here in a stopped time"
from Sunday With the Smiths: "I watch from a point just above my head in space, Beside the blue spruce alive with needles of light. We quietly pray, & the bees come to us for the wayward wine on our lips." and also "bring a small quake rushing Towards the end of my fingers. I pray that something gentle & old, involving all of us, should often come true"
ALL of At Camp Lookout: "strengthened and fulfilled, I go -- carrying that other peaceful within me --"
from Alignment: "Aware at this moment of a new knowledge that makes the old truths untrue. Still, each time this happens, The clarity lasts only seconds: Before full possession can take place Something changes the air, reworks the body: The mind is dislodged, recalled to an accustomed disorder."
from Oil Flame-Fandango: "and dismember the air, casting it into laughing water."
from The Dog-Eater: "it was the piss on the snow on a sidewalk in New York that brought up the thought of a moon" what an opening line!
The Ordinance deserves its own thread. It is my favorite. "At the corner, the poem stops and bends its hind legs. Something drops to the pavement. Another poem?" LOL!!! Just, yes.
from Depths of Fields: "Beauty unreserved holds down a country's suffering"
Again, thank you for sharing!
Some parts I especially liked:
from Hometown: "On this piece of ancestor land, My pulses slowed, I am at peace. I have no wish but this place -- To remain here in a stopped time"
from Sunday With the Smiths: "I watch from a point just above my head in space, Beside the blue spruce alive with needles of light. We quietly pray, & the bees come to us for the wayward wine on our lips." and also "bring a small quake rushing Towards the end of my fingers. I pray that something gentle & old, involving all of us, should often come true"
ALL of At Camp Lookout: "strengthened and fulfilled, I go -- carrying that other peaceful within me --"
from Alignment: "Aware at this moment of a new knowledge that makes the old truths untrue. Still, each time this happens, The clarity lasts only seconds: Before full possession can take place Something changes the air, reworks the body: The mind is dislodged, recalled to an accustomed disorder."
from Oil Flame-Fandango: "and dismember the air, casting it into laughing water."
from The Dog-Eater: "it was the piss on the snow on a sidewalk in New York that brought up the thought of a moon" what an opening line!
The Ordinance deserves its own thread. It is my favorite. "At the corner, the poem stops and bends its hind legs. Something drops to the pavement. Another poem?" LOL!!! Just, yes.
from Depths of Fields: "Beauty unreserved holds down a country's suffering"
Again, thank you for sharing!
The Soufflé isn’t the soufflé; the soufflé is the recipe. --Clara