Friday, May 18, 2012


LINES FOR MAY 18

How many
birds on the wires?

How many
notes in the melody?

How soon
the great emptiness?

Thursday, May 17, 2012


LINES FOR MAY 17

Bank of clouds
in the distance -

a whole new day.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012


LINES FOR MAY 16

Heat, as if a mirror
reflects it back distorted.

Tuesday, May 15, 2012


LINES FOR MAY 15

Corn beyond the line marking
the beginning of the West -

“What's the matter with you people?”

Monday, May 14, 2012


LINES FOR MAY 14

Light laid down
like a soaking rain.

Sunday, May 13, 2012


THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS


"Not poems,
but raw

notes
for poems."

*

"Words
do what
words do.

Things
do more."

*

"How do you
think of these
things," they asked.

"How do you
not," he said.

Saturday, May 12, 2012


THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS


"To get there,
stay here."

*

"The wise man
knows enough

is plenty."

*

"The fool knows
all the ways

to nowhere."

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