Friday, January 31, 2014
LINES FOR JANUARY 31
Thursday, January 30, 2014
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014
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Flat
run of the land
goes on and on.
Sign
at the gas station
says “You are
nowhere,”
like a dream
come true.
Monday, January 27, 2014
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Sunday, January 26, 2014
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“Attack
the emptiness
as if sound
makes sense.”
*
“Only
so
often
the
word
works
like a
nail.”
*
“Sometimes the word is
no word at all.”
Saturday, January 25, 2014
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“Not in meaning.
Not the image.
The true shape
of the poem.
How it finds
its rightness
here, beyond
the edge of things.”
*
“It's not
so difficult,”
he said.
“Sit here
until
something
breaks you.”
*
“Sometimes
you need
more page
than poem.”
Friday, January 24, 2014
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Thursday, January 23, 2014
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014
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Tuesday, January 21, 2014
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Monday, January 20, 2014
LINES FOR JANUARY 20
The endless grey void
at the western edge
of Nebraska -
I no longer know
where I've come from,
where I'm going.
Sunday, January 19, 2014
from THE OLD POET SAYS
“Should one worry
of wisdom, or
simply getting
one thing right?”
*
“How few
people
occupy
my poems.
How few
have earned
a place
in them.”
*
"One must
learn to hear
the silence."
Saturday, January 18, 2014
from THE OLD POET SAYS
"If there's
nothing there,
isn't that
emptiness
in me?"
*
"All of
every
is any."
*
"If the
moment
were longer,
this poem
would be."
Friday, January 17, 2014
LINES FOR JANUARY 17
Thursday, January 16, 2014
LINES FOR JANUARY 16
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
LINES FOR JANUARY 15
The sign says 65.
The fellow in front of me
is doing 50.
That's fast enough,
heading into
the shapeless distance.
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
LINES FOR JANUARY 14
Lazy road climbs into cloud.
The world disappears. It's just me,
the old man in front of me,
and three
Angus bulls in the pasture.
Monday, January 13, 2014
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Sunday, January 12, 2014
from THE OLD POET SAYS
"Lost?
If I knew
where I was,
I wouldn't be
where I am."
*
"This poem has cost me
a dollar fifty.
Why am I giving it
to you for free?"
*
"The poem - not
what I think,
what I see,
these stones."
Saturday, January 11, 2014
from THE OLD POET SAYS
"I talked
to you
about poetry
twenty-five
years ago?
Twenty-five
years ago
I didn't
know enough
about poetry
to talk."
*
"Some poets
sing
unhappiness
and it
is lovely.
Mine
is plain."
*
"Echo
of every
echo,
these words."
Friday, January 10, 2014
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Thursday, January 09, 2014
LINES FOR JANUARY 9
Wednesday, January 08, 2014
LINES FOR JANUARY 8
The sun is up.
The sky has lifted.
The grey morning
fades to tawny
sandhills and horses.
I am happy
enough, I guess.
Tuesday, January 07, 2014
LINES FOR JANUARY 7
Monday, January 06, 2014
LINES FOR JANUARY 6
Sunday, January 05, 2014
from THE OLD POET SAYS
"If you would
be a poet,
know you can't
give up."
*
"Leave
on the blank
page only
its richness."
*
"There are
words for
every
moment,
even
this one."
Saturday, January 04, 2014
from THE OLD POET SAYS
"Ah, silly
poet,
reading
quantum
mechanics,
as if
such matters
matter."
*
“Imagination, my
refuge from the world.”
*
“Finally
into silence
I am what
I would be.”
Friday, January 03, 2014
LINES FOR JANUARY 3
Thursday, January 02, 2014
LINES FOR JANUARY 2
Wednesday, January 01, 2014
LINES FOR JANUARY 1
