Wednesday, October 31, 2012


LINES FOR OCTOBER 31

Empty fields
with wind.

A grey scratch
of sky

promising
this is

not the end.



Tuesday, October 30, 2012


LINES FOR OCTOBER 30

Fallen leaves
and the last

of the green
fields. Autumn

does and undoes
and winter

will come to
nothing.



Monday, October 29, 2012


LINES FOR OCTOBER 29

Sunday morning as grey
as the geese, blue sky break-

ing through. A sandhill crane
calling in the distance.

Nothing else is enough.



Sunday, October 28, 2012


from
THE OLD POET SAYS

“Break lines
where

the sense
works at

and with and
against

the getting
there.”

*

"Even a short
poem is more than

I have earned."

*

"I make
these notes, not

for you, not
for me, for

the moment
only."



Saturday, October 27, 2012


from
THE OLD POET SAYS

"Talk
to yourself

you talk
to a fool."

*

"Not where
the lines

break,
where they

break you."

*

"Think about it.
Think about it.
Think about it.

Then never
think about it
again."



Friday, October 26, 2012


LINES FOR OCTOBER 26

Autumn
and the sudden

chill of the sun
going down.



Thursday, October 25, 2012


LINES FOR OCTOBER 25

So many
mice, leaves

crossing the road.



Wednesday, October 24, 2012


LINES FOR OCTOBER 24

Grey tea of a morning -
the day barely begun

and the birds are gone.
Even the hawks

have hunkered down.



Tuesday, October 23, 2012


LINES FOR OCTOBER 23

The faded green
of frosted field.

What you've given
you won't get back.



Monday, October 22, 2012


LINES FOR OCTOBER 22

The smell
of it, cold

rain and
empty fields.



Sunday, October 21, 2012


from
THE OLD POET SAYS

"The poem is not
a lesson for you.

It is for me -
that I can learn it,

and if I haven't
that I have

wasted my life."

*

"The poet would
speak to rock

but can say
nothing the rock

believes."

*

"Measure measure measure measure measure
measure measure measure measure pleasure."



Saturday, October 20, 2012


from
THE OLD POET SAYS

"The poet
as potter

bakes
as clay

these old
words new."

*

"These things
I keep

doing
I keep

doing."

*

"We say what we think we mean.
We mean what we think we say."



Friday, October 19, 2012


LINES FOR OCTOBER 19

Without geese,
where's

the autumn sky?



Thursday, October 18, 2012


LINES FOR OCTOBER 18

Geese,
sideways

to wind
side-wind

the sky.



Wednesday, October 17, 2012


LINES FOR OCTOBER 17

Step into
the cold part
of the morning,

love. Let it
concentrate
your affection.



Tuesday, October 16, 2012


LINES FOR OCTOBER 16

Lone horse
in the autumn

sun, tail to
the wind and

winter
coming on.



Monday, October 15, 2012


LINES FOR OCTOBER 15

Hawk
on the corn

rubble,
the color

of stalks.



Sunday, October 14, 2012


from
THE OLD POET SAYS

"Each is
is not?

No.

Each is
not is."

*

"That you do
to please me

displeases me."

*

"I could stop now,
were this enough."



Saturday, October 13, 2012


from
THE OLD POET SAYS

"Preacher,
shouldn't you

know something
about something?

Like how much
of nothing

will bring us
happiness?"

*

"Your money -
God

doesn't need it
and

you can't take it
with you.

You might
as well

give it to me."

*

"The good poem's
rules

make themselves."



Friday, October 12, 2012


LINES FOR OCTOBER 12

A field of cranes, grey
as an autumn day.



Thursday, October 11, 2012


LINES FOR OCTOBER 11

Farmer at harvest,
racing the wind

to winter.



Wednesday, October 10, 2012


LINES FOR OCTOBER 10

Cold wind in the fur
of all the small creatures

dead along the road -
autumn leaves keep falling.



Tuesday, October 09, 2012


LINES FOR OCTOBER 9

Cornfields glow,
waiting for harvest.

Geese flood
the western sky.

The light
lingers, lingers,

then fades.



Monday, October 08, 2012


LINES FOR OCTOBER 8

Autumn -
cold

wind with
death.



Sunday, October 07, 2012


from
THE OLD POET SAYS

"Poet,
see

what you
see -

That's
what we

do."

*

"The game is
the game;

it is not
the score."

*

"Poet, ah
poet, you should

learn to play
your instrument."



Saturday, October 06, 2012

from
THE OLD POET SAYS

"If the sun
comes up, be grateful

for silence."

*

"Some days
only noise

and some days
song."

*

"Accept
silence?

Why, yes.
Welcome."



Friday, October 05, 2012


LINES FOR OCTOBER 5

Autumn rain
in the distance,

the chill here
before the wind.



Thursday, October 04, 2012


LINES FOR OCTOBER 4

Light in the cold
fall air, somehow

more bare than
the dust of summer.



Wednesday, October 03, 2012


LINES FOR OCTOBER 3

Horses
nibbling the short grass

and summer's gone.



Tuesday, October 02, 2012


LINES FOR OCTOBER 2

October morning -
so hard to say good-bye.



Monday, October 01, 2012


LINES FOR OCTOBER 1

Silver shred of memory -
wind in the September leaves.



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