Friday, February 27, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 27

Place one stone
on the pile
every day –

one today,
another one
tomorrow.

This is how
you live forever.


Thursday, February 26, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 26

Watching the world,
I try to figure
the story unfolding;

watching myself,
I do the same.


Wednesday, February 25, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 25

The poet,
like a man

collecting
stones.

The weight
soon enough

brings us to
standing still.


Tuesday, February 24, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 24

Not words alone, nor
is the world enough,

but something, taut, between.


Monday, February 23, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 23

Even here, even now,
when I speak, sometimes

I have nothing
to say and sometimes

nothing is enough.


Friday, February 20, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 20

This morning –
not the words.

Not the sound of them,
nor what they bring.

Rather, silence.
The sound of that

and what it
leaves us with.


Thursday, February 19, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 19

Stone to sand –
the sleeping

wisdom of
water. An

afternoon
of love,

the surprise
of it, as

the stones had
been surprised.


Wednesday, February 18, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 18

Poem,
beyond

naming
and the need

to be name.


Tuesday, February 17, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 17

The phrase well-turned,
like the well-turned ankle,

to take your breath away.


Monday, February 16, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 16

Rivers run
and in the flat
places wander.

Water is
joy in summer,
a delicious

wash of it.
Delicate,
the embrace –

my hands,
her breasts,
the sun on us.


Friday, February 13, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 13

Actually, no,
I don't understand,

and every day
it seems I fall

farther behind.


Thursday, February 12, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 12

Consider

the rocks
and stars.

If you do,
you'll do

things
differently.


Wednesday, February 11, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 11

Blue stone cold shadow –
sun's a far-off memory;

February, the promise
that's never kept.


Tuesday, February 10, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 10

Snow
like a waterfall

on a rock-grey
day.




Monday, February 09, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 9

The hanging sky.
The grey day.

Wisdom is of no use
against the snow.


Friday, February 06, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 6

Darkness
is its own

story – no
moon tonight,

no whispering,
and the stars

have scattered.


Thursday, February 05, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 5

Ah, silence.
O, sorrow.


Wednesday, February 04, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 4

Bare tree. Red-tail
in its branches,
grey sky behind.


Tuesday, February 03, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 3

Set yourself.
Hope is

a brush-back
pitch from God.


Monday, February 02, 2009

LINES FOR FEBRUARY 2

It
takes what

it
takes. Push

on,
fool, push

on.


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