Thursday, February 28, 2013
LINES FOR FEBRUARY 28
Aching trees
at the edge
of winter.
Sunlight
on them,
a sweetness
you cannot
taste.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
LINES FOR FEBRUARY 27
Dried stalks
of reeds
and rushes.
Fall has
pushed them
to winter.
Winter
forgives them
their summer.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
LINES FOR FEBRUARY 26
Great heap of
corn on the ground.
Snow on the corn.
Sky on the snow.
In the distance,
crows, wondering
what does it mean?
Monday, February 25, 2013
Sunday, February 24, 2013
from
THE OLD POET SAYS
"Yeah, people, this is
what poets do,
whether it works
or not."
*
"If I could sing,
of what would you
make my blessing?"
*
"Did you come to
preach or teach?
Don't overstate
the obvious."
Saturday, February 23, 2013
from
THE OLD POET SAYS
"Find an
emptiness
and fill
it. There's
your poem."
*
"It doesn't matter
what I want.
What I get
is this, or
something
like it."
*
"If you
have to ask
is that
a poem,
it's not."
Friday, February 22, 2013
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
LINES FOR FEBRUARY 19
The land
laid for
winter,
the sun
not its
summer
sheen but
redder,
like the
blood
in things.
Monday, February 18, 2013
Sunday, February 17, 2013
from
THE OLD POET SAYS
"Once
the poem
crawls in
your ear,
don't let it
crawl back
out."
*
"Too much
poemness
will spoil
the poem.
Better
truth than
beauty."
*
"At the edge
of poetry,
nonsense.
There's no
other way."
Saturday, February 16, 2013
from
THE OLD POET SAYS
"Work it
hard
enough
it hurts.
If you
can think
about
something
else,
you're not
doing it
right."
*
“Happiness
is not
the biggest
basket.”
*
“These lines,
those -
it's all
one poem.”
Friday, February 15, 2013
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
LINES FOR FEBRUARY 12
Delicious fail
of winter sky.
Blue wind in
the humming trees.
Nowhere to go,
and going fast.
Monday, February 11, 2013
Sunday, February 10, 2013
from
THE OLD POET SAYS
“Oh, the fear
of not enough
when you have
too much.”
*
“Poetry is
a contact sport.
Get yourself
in shape.”
*
“Music is
a conversation
you otherwise
couldn't have.”
Saturday, February 09, 2013
from
THE OLD POET SAYS
“How much
is too much?
Any more
than enough.”
*
“I do not wish to
form the formless,
rather to be
informed by it.”
*
“Impatience
is a virtue
if waiting
is a sin.”
Friday, February 08, 2013
Thursday, February 07, 2013
Wednesday, February 06, 2013
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
Monday, February 04, 2013
Sunday, February 03, 2013
from
THE OLD POET SAYS
“If not
now,
when?
If not
this,
what?”
*
“How much of
this conversation
can I have
without you?”
*
“Too often
we stop
working it
before we
get it."
Saturday, February 02, 2013
from
THE OLD POET SAYS
“Reader,
I would
wrap this
moment
for you,
that you
could take
it home.”
*
“How is it
it happens,
this
incessant
run of
words?”
*
“Drive
the rough road;
work loose
that poem.”
Friday, February 01, 2013
