Sunday, November 10, 2013

THREE from THE OLD POET SAYS 



“Beware
the poem

trying to
sell you

something.
Free will

donations
are welcome,

of course.”

*

“Syntax
without verbs -

the poem
likes its

chances.”

*

“Trust the poem
or your own

sense of things?
The true poet

trusts the poem.”



Saturday, November 09, 2013

THREE from THE OLD POET SAYS 



“Ah, the old poet.
You don't want him

to come too soon.
You don't want him

to come too late.
But you do

want him to come.”

*

“Even as we
say it, sometimes

we don't know
what we mean.

This is as
it should be.”

*

“This poem, art
which disappears

into dark water.”



Friday, November 08, 2013

LINES FOR NOVEMBER 8 



Another hawk.
Another sunset.

The other edge
of letting go.



Thursday, November 07, 2013

LINES FOR NOVEMBER 7 



Another red-tail,
another edge

of another
community,

hawk waiting
the end time,

its pale mate
nearby, watching

a farther distance.



Wednesday, November 06, 2013

LINES FOR NOVEMBER 6 



Shine of steel
on the railroad tracks

races me in the car.
We're evenly matched

until we cross paths -
then I win.



Tuesday, November 05, 2013

LINES FOR NOVEMBER 5 



More wind
than wing -

hawk
ascending.



Monday, November 04, 2013

LINES FOR NOVEMBER 4 



If only
I could learn

to be
where I am

and not
where I want

to be.



Sunday, November 03, 2013

THREE from THE OLD POET SAYS 



“Imagine
money being made
in poetry.

Better yet,
imagine
rain, and with it

a crane, an egret.”

*

I am
a simple-

minded
poet -

only
one trick

at a
time, if

that.

*

“Nothing -
not enough

and too much.”



Saturday, November 02, 2013

THREE from THE OLD POET SAYS 



“Now
we need

then,
and then,

now.”

*

“The old poet -
you might lock him

in the closet
but you can't

shut him up.”

*

“Always more
is not enough.”



Friday, November 01, 2013

LINES FOR NOVEMBER 1 



Shine
of glass

in the grass -
the sun

finds a way.



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