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Thursday, October 30, 2008

Any Night - Phillip Levine

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Look, the eucalyptus, the Atlas pine, the yellowing ash, all the trees are gone, and I was older than all of them. I am older than the moon,...

Clearing the Pile

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I'm definitely seeking solace these days. What is it about us that sends us seeking ourselves at every turn in our lives? Or is that sp...

On Prayer - Czeslaw Milosz

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You ask me how to pray to someone who is not. All I know is that prayer constructs a velvet bridge And walking it we are aloft, as on a spri...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008

No Time for Introspection

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Suddenly find myself in an internal cycle once again. I should be able to recognize the signs by now, but ... life is too immediate to see ...
Friday, April 25, 2008

Navajo Chant

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I see the Earth I am looking at Her and smile Because she makes me happy. The Earth, looking back at me Is smiling, too. May I walk happily ...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

couple(t) - Chris Blakeley

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three blocks later they're still kissing

Reincarnation - Phebe Jewell

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When I am born again make me a drum, make me an anchor of rhythm for your hands. Make my song break locks, open windows, fill bellies. ...

Why Dreams Are Like Babies -- Erin Malone

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Otherworldly, they may be naked & speaking a language you can’t understand. They test you on long division. You’re unprepared— This o...

Courtesy Seattle's Poetry on the Bus

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See more of these gems here . I think this would make a great poem to "workshop," swapping out your own place-words to achieve a n...
Friday, February 08, 2008

EVERY CASE —Wislawa Szymborska

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It could have happened. It must have happened. It happened earlier. Later. Closer by. Further away. It happened not to you. You survived bec...
Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Except that there's this career thing...

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If you have been working toward a promotion or a raise, things might finally start to loosen up on the job front now that Mars is again push...
Friday, January 25, 2008

Today and Every Day. Amen.

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From tarot.com: Perhaps you have reached a phase in your life when work starts to lose its prominence. Of course, you must be dutiful enough...
Wednesday, January 23, 2008

The Next Two Years

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January 2008, here's what the stars have in store for me: You are in a transition in which you are fundamentally coming to terms with yo...
Friday, January 18, 2008

"My Father with Cigarette Twelve Years Before the Nazis Could Break His Heart" (poem) by Philip Levine

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I remember the room in which he held  a kitchen match and with his thumbnail  commanded it to flame: a brown sofa,  two easy chairs, one co...
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My Life Coming to Get Me

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Been pretty unhappy w/ work for a while now - up and down, certainly, but more often down than up. Been vaguely dissatisfied with the way I...
Thursday, January 10, 2008

Rilke's Book of Hours -- Selections from Barrows & Macy Translation

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God, give us each our own death, the dying that proceeds from each of our lives: the way we loved, the meanings we made, our need. ***** You...
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Thursday, November 01, 2007

"Troublemaker" (poem) by Wilson Diehl

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Every family has one -- usually the one  who writes, the one who spills family secrets  onto the page like so much grape juice  on beige ca...

Brocaded Life (For Eden) by Hagar Shirman

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from Poetry on the Bus My mother's hands are silken gloves Woven of the warmest thread, Embroidered by the day, year, life. Each care...
Sunday, October 07, 2007

Wedding Vows

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Eric & I got married last Saturday, Sept. 29, 2007. I still can't bring myself to tell the whole story -- Friday night welcome dinne...

A Philosophy of Connection & Autonomy

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Ever since flirting with being an Objectivist my first year of college, I've been fascinated with the idea of philosophy. I wanted to k...
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