January 6th, 2018 by admin
New poem by Kim Shuck
2017 Poet Laureate of San Francisco
Drought Break
Weaving of water is layered
Sitting in the rain
Feet dragging in the runoff
I know there are trees coming down tonight
Drought tired
Clots of soil run free
Sailors still catch and spill
Windpainting
Still navigate by song
Remember...
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June 11th, 2017 by admin
From our 20th Anniversary Anthology
Light in All Directions
Brandon Cesmat
Light in All Directions
I felt your gaze all day as you drove the road toward me.
That night in the observatory, we leaned into the telescope,
held our breath to focus on Jupiter with five moons
each lit like half-closed blind...
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May 27th, 2017 by admin
Refining the moment
Reach out a quavering hand to touch rock
bird bones may be Hollow... but they are heavy
.
colors of Fall are proportional to colors of Spring
there's a giant in the Sky prepared to roar
.
find yourself in company of No less than three
Genealogy tells only part of a...
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May 18th, 2017 by admin
From our 20th Anniversary Anthology
BLESSINGS AND CURSES
poems by Anne Whitehouse
BLESSING XVI
There is something to be said
for being a renter,
of watching over a place
without the obligation
to improve it.
The Native Americans
made it a practice
to leave little trace of themselves
on the landscape....
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May 18th, 2017 by admin
From our 20th Anniversary Anthology
Dingle Day
poems by Joe O’Connell
Music-energy
In Flanders fields
Did Bob Seeger and the Silver Bullet Band
Buoy us up on a Spring morning
With a driving force,
Ebullient, hoarse and sound,
Prophetic energy about nothing much really
Or everything
That a young sub-prime...
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May 18th, 2017 by admin
From our 20th Anniversary Anthology
A ROSE IN THE BRIAR PATCH
poems by DAN THARP
Oscar
We dropped his ashes from the bridge
into the Canadian River below;
left our words upon the breeze and
watched the current
sweep him away…
followed soon by two car
and an empty can of beer.
...
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May 18th, 2017 by admin
From the forth coming 20th Anniversary Anthology
The Gathering
poems by Diana Festa
Odors
After Umberto Eco’s
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
The soil’s peculiar smell,
fog filtering into clusters of trees,
rain on pavement,
the earthy odor of artichokes,
sweetness of sage, salt in sea air,
pungent...
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March 22nd, 2017 by admin
Lament
And are you gone from me?
And are you dead?
Who loved me always
and now prefer the wind.
And is it spring
with an untimely frost?
And are the bushes sticks?
And berry-flowers dew?
And do I waking wake?
And is this floor the earth?
And do I breathe in smoke?
And is this wind?
Oh are you not...
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January 17th, 2017 by admin
Equinox
Like wings,
the reclaiming of the dark hours
arches across the rosy-eyed lull
of not knowing,
plumed in possibility
and iridescent visions,
flourishes of sacred geometry
stirring what once felt like
the night would go on without end.
There’s a sweet...
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September 28th, 2016 by admin
Strings of Shining Silence
When shadows lengthen,
our breaths grow closer, and
bundled bodies huddle against
drizzle-slanting snow and rain.
To warmth we turn,
the nearness of a cello heartbeat;
strings of shining silence
fill my chest with crimson tones.
Each in-breath spins me into soundness
while...
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