Memory ~Charles Bukowski (with thanks to Roskis for sending this my way) I’ve memorized all the fish in the sea I’ve memorized each opportunity strangled and I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love and I’ve memorized that too. I’ve memorized green rooms in St. Louis and New […]
The Well of Remembrance: Rediscovering the Earth Wisdom Myths of Northern Europe Author: Ralph Metzner, Shambhala Press, 1994 I picked up this book at Moe’s Books in Berkeley one quiet afternoon. I was not familiar with Metzner’s work, but the title intrigued me, so I bought it. The majority of the text is written by Metzner, […]
A Prayer from the Queer Studies Section of the Bookstore ~ Tumblr user dominusdeus With thanks to dominusdeus for her kind permission to share this poem. At the bookstore That I have been to three times so far, I am standing in the religion section Two aisles, one of eastern philosophy and One of western […]
The Well at Mylor ~ Penelope Shuttle At Mylor the water of the well bears the armour of the light, it hides and escapes and stays still under its hood of rock amid a galore of graves and green leaves, spring of fresh water beside the sea, a find, a treasure, a pedigree, no idyll […]
Forty-One ~ Cassandra Warren You disappoint him. He says this isn’t true but you know him now. You finally sleep well next to his shape and he often wanders into your day and night dreams. He isn’t demanding and you are always sorry. Sorry that you can barely read in front of him, sing in […]
