Showing posts with label Gift. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gift. Show all posts
Friday, June 19, 2020

Reflections: 5 + 9

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Reflections on Turning 59: Sometimes I am arrogant enough to think my death will mean that no one will be reading books the way I do...
Saturday, July 28, 2018

Moya Cannon: "Openings" & "Still Life"

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OPENINGS In my chest a rusted metal door is creaking open, the door of a decompression chamber cranked up on barnacled chains. The r...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Louise Gluck's "Dawn"

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DAWN 1 Child waking up in a dark room screaming I want my duck back, I want my duck back in a language nobody understands in the lea...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Star Power: Clay Cup

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Cup by Star. Thank you so much.
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Blow, West Wind, Blow

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A bit of blarney for the season.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Cocktail Party: Eight Fingers of Fun

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Octorina, at play, with Ophelia Rising in her background. Kudos to CL for the octopus.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Sinead Morrissey: "& Forgive Us Our Trespasses"

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& FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES   Of which the first is love. The sad, unrepeatable fact that the loves we shouldn’t foster burrow faste...
Friday, November 2, 2012

"A Seed-Sower": M.C. Richards

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It took me half my life to come to believe that I was OK even if I did love experience in a loose and undiscriminating way and did not know...
Sunday, October 7, 2012

Grape Jellyfish

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Grape Jellyfish: aquatic beadwork from my friend CL. You may recognize her work here as well in Octorina, the jaunty octopus...
Saturday, October 6, 2012

Boland: "Atlantis -- A Lost Sonnet"

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ATLANTIS -- A LOST SONNET How on earth did it happen, I used to wonder that a whole city—arches, pillars, colonnades,  not to mention v...
Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Charm: Fare Far, Fare Well

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Pathway Charm: sculpture mix; jade green glaze, barely, for relief effect.  (The design is borrowed from an old Norse monument.  I ...
Saturday, September 15, 2012

Shakespeare's Sonnet 122: "Thy Gift, Thy Tables"

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Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain Full character'd with lasting memory, Which shall above that idle rank remain Beyond all d...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

A Jaunty Octopus

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Octorina, enjoying a moment of Northern California beach-time: thanks to my friend CL, who brought this creature to life for me. ...
Friday, July 6, 2012

Tony Hoagland's "Field Guide"

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FIELD GUIDE Once, in the cool blue middle of a lake, up to my neck in the most precious element of all, I found a pale-gray, curled-up...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Sam Hamill's "The Gift of Tongues," the Generous Spirit, and PIracy

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THE GIFT OF TONGUES Everything I steal, I give away. Once, in pines almost as tall as these, same crescent moon sliding gently by, ...
Sunday, May 13, 2012

Robert Graves: Gift, Glance, Green, Glint

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Four poems by Robert Graves: GIFT OF SIGHT I had long known the diverse tastes of the wood, Each leaf, each bark, rank earth from every...
Friday, April 13, 2012

"Car 54, Where Are You?"

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This is a gift from a student on the eighth anniversary of my father's death. This student has lost his father as well, quite recently....