Wednesday, February 29, 2012


LINES FOR FEBRUARY 29

The road
goes there

but you
cannot.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012


LINES FOR FEBRUARY 28

Shadow and sun.
The undoing

and the undone.

Monday, February 27, 2012


LINES FOR FEBRUARY 27

Dilemma -

you're somehow
in, and

there's no way
out.

Sunday, February 26, 2012


THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS

"The poem does not
wait for you when

you set your pen down."

*

"Sound,
not meaning,

is the first law
of singing."

*

"Waiting for luck is
betting on nothing."

Saturday, February 25, 2012


THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS

"The good poem -
an entrance,

not an exit."

*

"Don't number
your pages.

Don't number
your days.

Don't expect
any of it

to be easy.
Persevere."

*

"If he comes,
let him in -

you know that's
why you're

waiting."



Friday, February 24, 2012


LINES FOR FEBRUARY 24

Another day,
another shout

of silence.

Thursday, February 23, 2012


LINES FOR FEBRUARY 23

Every-
where is

here now.
You can't

go there.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012


LINES FOR FEBRUARY 22

Smear on the road, or
shadow of the hawk.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012


LINES FOR FEBRUARY 21

Crow like poet,
in sun on sidewalk -

he's eating a piece
of nothing. And

what is it I do?

Monday, February 20, 2012


LINES FOR FEBRUARY 20

The light lies
like wind at

the window -
there and no

farther, the day
winding down.

Sunday, February 19, 2012


THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS

"If only
a short while,

then only
a few words."

*

"Don't write
so hard

that you
destroy

joy."

*

"The universe is
a cosmic dolphin -

you get what you give."

Saturday, February 18, 2012


THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS

"The shapeless
poem

shapes itself."

*

"Ear?
If I had

an ear,
I'd sing."

*

"I don't know
where they come from.

I don't know
what they mean.

They come on
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays,

and all the while between."

Friday, February 17, 2012


LINES FOR FEBRUARY 17

Radio on. Talk of
whale songs, then
the whale songs.

Poets speaking
in water.

Thursday, February 16, 2012


LINES FOR FEBRUARY 16

Watercolor wash of cloud,
the sun our imagination.

Morning comes with sadness.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012


LINES FOR FEBRUARY 15

Crow in a hurry.
Whatever could he

be flying towards,
or from?

What are we
flying to?

Tuesday, February 14, 2012


LINES FOR FEBRUARY 14

Watch the hawk
on the hawk post.

The sun stays
at its back.

Monday, February 13, 2012


LINES FOR FEBRUARY 13

Those vultures -
first they eat

the eyes.

Sunday, February 12, 2012


THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS

"Not every
thought's
a keeper,

and not
every thought
is not."

*

"We do
or do not.

The clouds
lay their

shadows
anyway."

*

"Silence and God -
so much alike we all

believe in heaven."



Saturday, February 11, 2012


THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS

"If it looks
so easy,

you do it -
one every damn

day for a year.
Then we'll talk.

Then you may
have something

to say."

*

"Like fire
extinguisher
and fire,

technique
is useless
when you

have nothing
to say."

*

"If you want to
make sense

you cannot be
afraid of

nonsense."



Friday, February 10, 2012


LINES FOR FEBRUARY 10

Morning, and now
the wide sky.

Thursday, February 09, 2012


LINES FOR FEBRUARY 9

Wandering in strangeness,
not lost, but curious.

Wednesday, February 08, 2012


LINES FOR FEBRUARY 8

You name it,
you own it.

That is oak.
This, cottonwood.

These are mine.

Tuesday, February 07, 2012


LINES FOR FEBRUARY 7

Crow's sorrow goes
where crow goes.

Monday, February 06, 2012


LINES FOR FEBRUARY 6

Sunlight,
lost like a dream

when waking.

Sunday, February 05, 2012


THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS

"The happy man
has nothing.

The sad man
makes poems

of sorrow."

*

"Making it
look hard
is easy.

Making it
look easy
is not."

*

"You may say
it's done,

the poem,
but it's

never done,
it's always

hardly
begun."



Saturday, February 04, 2012


THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS

"Ah, yes, these
poems, all

these poems
pushing against

the final silence."

*

"It's either
boom chick or

chick boom,
chick chick boom or

boom chick chick
or some variation

thereof. Why is
that so difficult?"

*

"Always ask yourself
where is the beat

and when you find it,
keep it, keep it, keep it."



Friday, February 03, 2012


LINES FOR FEBRUARY 3

A freshness of sky
this morning,

the tenderness
of silence.

Thursday, February 02, 2012


LINES FOR FEBRUARY 2

The way the light
lifts the morning.

The way you say
good-bye.

Wednesday, February 01, 2012


LINES FOR FEBRUARY 1

Everywhere we go,
there we say we are.

We don't know
the half of it.

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