"next time, i will dance with
you, Raymond, and we
will stomp our boots so
hard we'll create sparks that
rise to the heavens, that
call forth clouds and yellow
thunder"
"Nouns name the world, adjectives let you get hold of the name and keep it from flying all over your mind like a pre-Socratic explanation of the cosmos."
21/31: PINHOLE POETRY VOLUME TWO SELECTED edited by Erin Bedford (2024 Pinhole Poetry) https://tinyurl.com/bdzf56ax
"Oh, Sunday evenings: slabs of silence, loops of gloom; maybe
in lieu of this only happening to me, we could stare together
at the mute moon, channel the focused burn of the extraordinary?"
this is our life and the spin of the wheels is a wending wash of the long
distant road of brick and time and the way the sound catches the screen door,
sings itself to morning, brings the light and 30 seconds to sing a life"
14/31: AT MARSPORT DRUGSTORE by Al Purdy, with appreciation by Charles Bukowski (1977 The Paget Press) https://tinyurl.com/yn4navea
"the clown mask crumples in laughter
translated as disbelief in anything
including ourselves as children
we inherit the world and each other
and we must be grateful for everything
while there is time."
"I made you a mixed tape. I left it in your locker. I hid it in your shoe. I taped it to your door. I gift-wrapped it and put it in a gift bag, then left the gift bag on the subway."
"two flowering currants'
Summer hum, the cherry tree that after
Many barren years produced five pears,
The sickly apple tree, the beautiful
Poisonous laburnum"
"their amazing were killed to met the possible
any there after family and passed
became again front even any there Latvian
wouldn't he home
what inside prison that the visitors see
in its to it deep mind
a Baltic Friday early in grey"