Saturday, April 22, 2017
Some Reviews of PACIFIC STANDARD TIME
Michael Dennis in Today's Book of Poetry
Mike Sonksen in Entropy
Elaine Equi on the Poetry Foundation's Harriet blog
(You have to scroll down a bit to find Equi's mini-review)
William Mohr on the Poetry Loves Poetry blog
Thursday, April 20, 2017
This is How We Talk to Each Other Now
Where I am in time I wonder where
you might be this side of the full moon
or that
Reality is too cumbersome & has been forever
unmasking the existential diatribe
"Excuse me" "Is that you?" "Be quiet" "Don't go"
"Listen"
folded in half now like a blank sheet of paper
& talking to you on the phone in a dream
it was a bad connection I couldn't hear you
static cutting in & out
"That's funny, I can hear you just fine"
The future of one moment vs the future of the next
already packed into the big Cadillac of the past
that never stopped to pick me up that summer afternoon
hitchhiking on the PCH
& later I'm on Agate Beach at dawn
skipping stones across puddles
at the bottom of the sea
April 19, 2017
you might be this side of the full moon
or that
Reality is too cumbersome & has been forever
unmasking the existential diatribe
"Excuse me" "Is that you?" "Be quiet" "Don't go"
"Listen"
folded in half now like a blank sheet of paper
& talking to you on the phone in a dream
it was a bad connection I couldn't hear you
static cutting in & out
"That's funny, I can hear you just fine"
The future of one moment vs the future of the next
already packed into the big Cadillac of the past
that never stopped to pick me up that summer afternoon
hitchhiking on the PCH
& later I'm on Agate Beach at dawn
skipping stones across puddles
at the bottom of the sea
April 19, 2017
Saturday, April 1, 2017
Raking the Valves & Hinges
"All the vibes hit me different"
- Joanne Kyger, Trip Out & Fall Back
The tide all drizzled in tinsel & mist
It's springtime on the coast
The seabreeze
full of sighs
& accumulated loss
the memory of which is
rippling in the eucalyptus
I thought to roll up my
sleeves but the light had been
encrypted
& my tattoo didn't translate...
The hazy blue sky is tilted at a 45 degree angle
which makes sense if you don't think about it
& you're tapping at the glass
asking if they can turn up the volume
as a hummingbird pauses
above the torch aloe
just hovering there like
Eternity revving its engine
March 29
- Joanne Kyger, Trip Out & Fall Back
The tide all drizzled in tinsel & mist
It's springtime on the coast
The seabreeze
full of sighs
& accumulated loss
the memory of which is
rippling in the eucalyptus
I thought to roll up my
sleeves but the light had been
encrypted
& my tattoo didn't translate...
The hazy blue sky is tilted at a 45 degree angle
which makes sense if you don't think about it
& you're tapping at the glass
asking if they can turn up the volume
as a hummingbird pauses
above the torch aloe
just hovering there like
Eternity revving its engine
March 29
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