I posted this on Patreon earlier, and realize I hadn’t managed to post it here! This month’s community altar focuses on the idea of harvest, being September and all. The centerpiece is a line art drawing of a sheaf of wheat, on which I wrote my wishes for us all to harvest this year: peace, […]
Madrid ~ Pai Wei Translated from Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth and Chung Ling From “The Penguin Book of Women Poets”: Pai Wei, ‘white fern’, is the pseudonym of Huang Su-ju, who was born in Hunan and as a young girl ran away to avoid an arranged marriage. In the twenties she went to Japan to study […]
Lines for a Hard Time ~ Gena Ford There is no website or even a Wikipedia entry for Ms. Ford. If you are aware of one, please let me know. First published in May 1967, this poem is, sadly, still relevant. Evil does not go always by dark ways. On any hot summer day, cleanshaven […]
You Opened a Door ~ Marianna Fiore I don’t know to say why, my complete friend, you have opened a door in the air of my seclusion, nor why you make me live these days with magnetic joy, with a fullness lucid and true. Perhaps because you have lips of amaranth and fingers of hawthorn, […]
Where We Are ~ Gerald Locklin i envy those who live in two places: new york, say, and london; wales and spain; l.a. and paris; hawaii and switzerland. there is always the anticipation of the change, the chance that what is wrong is the result of where you are. i have always loved both the […]
