Thursday, June 30, 2011

LINES FOR JUNE 30

A little music, yes.
Music and silence

and the wind.


Wednesday, June 29, 2011

LINES FOR JUNE 29

Shaken sky
and trees.

I can't see
home from here.


Tuesday, June 28, 2011

LINES FOR JUNE 28

Some days
the whole world.

Some days not.


Monday, June 27, 2011

LINES FOR JUNE 27

Too much or
not enough.

Wind is on
the water.

The skies
collide.


Sunday, June 26, 2011

THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS


"Say little.
See a lot.

Let it all
settle.

Keep what stays."

*

"Poets pose -
it's not that they

have uniforms;
they just tend to

dress alike."

*

"Keep digging.
Eventually you'll see

there's nothing here."

Saturday, June 25, 2011

THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS

"If all else
fails, shuffle

your notes, play
the silence."

*

"There's more truth in silence
than

in anything I say."

*

"The only way
to know it's

done is to see
you've stopped,

and that
only after

the fact."


Friday, June 24, 2011

LINES FOR JUNE 24

If not red-tail
then harrier
cutting the day

open.


Thursday, June 23, 2011

LINES FOR JUNE 23

Red-tail -
you can

see it
when you

want to,
if you

wait
patiently.


Wednesday, June 22, 2011

LINES FOR JUNE 22

Wind and lift
and something

with the trees.


Tuesday, June 21, 2011

LINES FOR JUNE 21

Same road,
different day

all the way
home.


Monday, June 20, 2011

LINES FOR JUNE 20

Convocation
of crows.

Lots of noise
but no news.


Sunday, June 19, 2011

THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS

"Even God's ignorance
would be
a thing of beauty."

*

"We think we know
the mind of God,

which displays
unbounded ignorance -

ours, not God's.

*

"Go ahead -
pull my beard.

Perhaps I'll have
more to say."


Saturday, June 18, 2011

THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS

"If you could see,
truly see,

you wouldn't need
so many words."

*

"The blank page -
when I'm gone,

leave it as I left it,
my testament."

*

"If I can
set it down
when I want,

I can
pick it up
when I don't."


Friday, June 17, 2011

LINES FOR JUNE 17

Wind in the trees.
Hawk in the sun.

You've got to
believe in something.


Thursday, June 16, 2011

LINES FOR JUNE 16

A new house built
upon a cornfield -

this is the way
the world ends.


Wednesday, June 15, 2011

LINES FOR JUNE 15

Sharing a meal
with a fellow poet,

new friend, brother.


Tuesday, June 14, 2011

LINES FOR JUNE 14

Not churchbells.
Not silence.

Heartbeat. Breath.


Monday, June 13, 2011

LINES FOR JUNE 13

Only this wine.
I am alone.


Sunday, June 12, 2011

THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS

"Go ahead,
you can try
if you wish,

but me, I
wouldn't argue
with silence."

*

"How far can you go
before you run out
of poems," they asked.

"How far is an ocean?"

*

"They are my
poems. Of course

I can't know
what they mean."


Saturday, June 11, 2011

THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS

"With poetry,
not enough

is too much.

With love
it works

the other way."

*

"Do not do it
straight ahead.

Trick yourself
sideways.

Always take
the long way."

*

"Yes, I do throw
some poems away -

it's not like
there won't be more."


Friday, June 10, 2011

LINES FOR JUNE 10

She loves me.
Perhaps

she loves the moon
more.


Thursday, June 09, 2011

LINES FOR JUNE 9

Such expression
of rock here -

no lone stone.


Wednesday, June 08, 2011

LINES FOR JUNE 8

Roughness of
the earth here,

rocks broken
like open

wounds.


Tuesday, June 07, 2011

LINES FOR JUNE 7

Clouds are caught
on these Wisconsin

bluffs. Even a stiff
wind is not enough.


Monday, June 06, 2011

LINES FOR JUNE 6

Smear in the east
as if the sun

rose, then fell and
left us not so

much wishing as
wondering.

Sunday, June 05, 2011

THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS


"If you require
a stunt double,

perhaps you're not
a poet."

*

"What you expect to
see covers what you

could have seen."

*

"Sun to sun
the poet's work
is never done.

And sometimes
the night
undoes the day.

And sometimes
the day
will steal away

before we've
hardly begun."

Saturday, June 04, 2011

THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS

"This packet of poems -
save them for the dry times,

for it will not always
be as it is today."

*

"There is a lesson, too,
in the silence between."

*

"The mind
a blanket

covering
the world

as it is."


Friday, June 03, 2011

LINES FOR JUNE 3

Rim of the world,
edge of sky, wind.

Light like gauze
on everything.

All that is is
all that we are

imagining.


Thursday, June 02, 2011

LINES FOR JUNE 2

A lifting
sky.

Wind
above

the river.
A red-

winged black
bird,

its sharp
cry.


Wednesday, June 01, 2011

LINES FOR JUNE 1

Tear in the sky,
a promise of sun -

belief is something
best left undone.


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