Way: 2012-2017

Carol Peters

Sunday, December 10, 2017

Tadeusz Rozewicz

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A Voice by Tadeusz Rozewicz They mutilate they torment each other with silences with words as if they had another life to l...
Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Seamus Heaney

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Postscript by Seamus Heaney And some time make the time to drive out west Into County Clare, along the Flaggy Shore, In September or...
Thursday, August 3, 2017

The Periscope

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The Periscope The periscope contains two mirrors tipped just so I can look through the window behind my head, see the pink blossoms ...
Friday, July 14, 2017

Robert Duncan

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x: It’s Spring. Love’s Spring.                                                   The April stirring       not to be denied.  Inert ...
Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Robert Duncan

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Often I am Permitted to Return to a Meadow by Robert Duncan as if it were a scene made-up by the mind, that is not mine, but is a m...
Saturday, April 22, 2017

Touring Egypt

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Touring Egypt The nest above the garage belongs to a finch. Mine is the savaged arm below the pillow — raised veins, petechiae — doze...
Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Atlanta, 1955

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Esther, John, Carol, David Atlanta, 1955 The whistle — descending third — meant home. How wonderfully far that familiar sound travel...
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Bullseye

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Bullseye Driving home I shake at what I’ve done — handfuls of grapes prised from their stems, their tart flesh juiced between my teet...
Sunday, March 12, 2017

Sea Glass

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Sea Glass Collecting sea glass, high tide, I raced toward the rocks, away from swash until I forgot. The swash rose past my knees. I...
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Jorie Graham

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Jorie Graham [ WSJ ] Orpheus and Eurydice by Jorie Graham Up ahead, I know, he felt it stirring in himself already, the glance, the...
Saturday, February 4, 2017

WHRB

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WHRB The silver mike in a soundproof booth overlooks side-by-side turntables screwed to a raw plywood bench. A tight space. While on...
Sunday, November 27, 2016

Sea Lion at Dog Beach

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Sea Lion At Dog Beach The dogs find the body first, fin over teakettle tumbled by surf up the tide line onto the beach of kelp-s...
Saturday, November 26, 2016

W S Merwin

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W S Merwin The Present As they were leaving the garden one of the angels bent down to them and whispered I am to give you this ...
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Saturday, September 24, 2016

Charles Tomlinson

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Charles Tomlinson During Rain by Charles Tomlinson Between slats of the garden bench, and strung to their undersides ride clingi...
Sunday, September 11, 2016

Harry Humes

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Harry Humes from The Bottomland : Vultures by Harry Humes Three we found sheathed in ice after a late freezing rain. Th...
Sunday, September 4, 2016

Adam Fell

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Adam Fell from I Am Not a Pioneer : Limbo by Adam Fell Light falling on snow is naturally cast upward, but we are not de...
Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Individual Parts May Be Salvaged

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Individual Parts May Be Salvaged Alone in the house after my death the robot powers down my phone, straightens my cuffs, wipes...
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Friday, April 22, 2016

Hakalau Rain

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Hakalau Rain begins as obake — ghost fog — sails in  to finish a sunny day. A whisper of leaves, rustle of fronds rise...
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Sunday, March 13, 2016

Weeding

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Weeding I disinter roots & branches of  trees sawed & stumps ground last autumn rotting at their slow pace. Weedin...
Sunday, March 6, 2016

Bankei via Stephen Berg

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First Song by Stephen Berg never was    always will be mind before mind earth water fire wind sleep there tonight you you...
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