tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610081781362563962024-03-12T21:21:17.274-07:00Earth WhalesLucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02207163688951148816noreply@blogger.comBlogger119125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61008178136256396.post-77572974208202562552017-04-18T22:25:00.000-07:002017-04-18T22:34:59.247-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Nichiren, Izu Exile (1261)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Jogasaki</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">—lava fan of Ōmuroyama!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">4,000 years of rain and wind,</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">wave salt and sun</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">to make towering Kesakake Pines,</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">knotted Wax Myrtle</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">and musk of fern and litter</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">of old, old wild cherries blooming</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">deep polished cleaves</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">of black stone spilling fresh streams</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">into cheek pink blush </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">of barnacles in blue clean </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">wash of shallows </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Futo town didn't spring up</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">but more flowed down</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">with lava spill around the older</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Harai volcano</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">For decades fishermen in huts</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">on pumice cliffs</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">spotting Mullet schools,</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">flag waved signals</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">for boatmen to herd the fish to shoal</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">walking across land</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">that spread out like a wave</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Jogasaki--</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">exiled monk</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">cast on wave torn jut</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">of cooled basalt prisms</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">a volcano offers more than molten earth</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">a love that smells of sea water</span></div>
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so that when the cupped moon is low<br />
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and the Dog star weans the morning<br />
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CHARLES,<br />
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The gulls are howling over Fort Sq.<br />
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Its worse than you probably imagined<br />
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About how vast and tiny can a world become?<br />
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At least there're still the wild cherry trees<br />
along the roadsides<br />
the dark rocks in Lanesville<br />
and the sea<br />
as willing in its depth<br />
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I wish that sunlight, and what was said about it, were enough<br />
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The gulls are screaming on the briny wind<br />
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You could hear them<br />
clear across<br />
the harbor<br />
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August 4th</div>
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'16</div>
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Lucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02207163688951148816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61008178136256396.post-3405517067195272752016-06-19T22:42:00.001-07:002016-07-10T17:11:08.014-07:00<b><br /></b>
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<b>continuations of a cloud theme</b><br />
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a heat in June<br />
brings butterflies to the city<br />
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give your ambitions<br />
the patience of clouds<br />
--lightness comes to<br />
those who wait around for it<br />
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the air not in the shadows<br />
of buildings or trees<br />
keeps hot in the high June sun<br />
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like butterflies, the heat<br />
and clouds<br />
change every time<br />
the wind touches youLucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02207163688951148816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61008178136256396.post-57953730661260636902016-05-22T00:02:00.000-07:002016-05-22T00:02:18.114-07:00<div style="text-align: right;">
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<b>WALKING IN SPRING FROM RAICHO GUESTHOUSE</b></div>
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<b>TO SEE THE WATERFALLS OF NORIKURA</b></div>
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the high snow well into spring keeps the gorges</div>
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below Mt. Norikura loud and rushing</div>
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to climb there you'll have to pass the wild azalea</div>
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and listen to a cuckoos drumming all morning</div>
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if the water-bananas are blooming keep your eyes</div>
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on the meadows for the pale flash of a Siberian Bunting</div>
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and just when your feet are tired of stumbling over </div>
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knotted hemlock roots and up the birch lined ridgebacks</div>
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you'll come to rest under the resounding </div>
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sun mist radiance and falling wind of Sobundaki falls</div>
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cleansed a little by the spray of Norikuras waters</div>
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you'll think fondly of starting home</div>
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Lucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02207163688951148816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61008178136256396.post-18471844870857502152016-05-01T11:16:00.000-07:002016-05-01T11:28:37.406-07:00<b><br /></b>
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<b>may day</b><br />
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morning comes like a bouquet<br />
of flowers hung on the front door<br />
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jasmine, rose<br />
and musty eucalyptus<br />
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may day! may day!<br />
all the light goes<br />
back to one star flowering<br />
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may day! may day!<br />
all the sounds go<br />
back to one sound ushering<br />
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we wrap our colored ribbons<br />
against the always turning year<br />
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<br />Lucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02207163688951148816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61008178136256396.post-31273013455422505082016-04-18T16:41:00.001-07:002016-04-18T22:25:29.721-07:00<br />
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as much as in the city<br />
as deep out in the hills<br />
or even as where<br />
a lone bull rests<br />
in the meadow<br />
aglow with pale oxalis<br />
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the sparrows all are chattering<br />
with the fervency of spring<br />
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<br />Lucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02207163688951148816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61008178136256396.post-36997308292157883322015-04-13T21:24:00.000-07:002015-04-13T21:24:22.734-07:00<br />
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<b>BLOOD MAGNETISM</b><br />
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so long as the blood<br />
keeps its course<br />
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how can we go away?<br />
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the hearts minerals<br />
are paramagnets;<br />
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all it takes is a field<br />
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a field we've walked through<br />
but don't know how to leave<br />
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the aching of pulling blood<br />
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from blood. its not a matter<br />
of whose body it's in<br />
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where and what the mind says<br />
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but the dull, round pain<br />
of magnesium and molybdenum<br />
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separating is that of trying our good-bye<br />
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<br />Lucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02207163688951148816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61008178136256396.post-9469104297386359722014-11-01T18:57:00.000-07:002014-11-01T18:59:18.667-07:00<br />
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in october i could see<br />
the bones of autumn<br />
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death was with the eucalyptus<br />
and the sun leaned into the beige<br />
skeletons of star thistles<br />
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i suddenly remembered that<br />
you are my sister when<br />
the feathered seeds of coyote bushes<br />
sailed past me in the clear, light wind<br />
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Lucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02207163688951148816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61008178136256396.post-42543439753955029672014-09-25T22:00:00.003-07:002014-10-30T20:50:35.696-07:00<br />
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after so many years becoming<br />
what i thought should come next<br />
it was easy to lose track of the old quiet allies<br />
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the whole canyon shuddering<br />
in the first moments of autumn<br />
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i saw that lonely old star<br />
from the same place, on the same night<br />
years later and realized that i feel happiest<br />
when recalling winter<br />
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i should go back to seeing and speaking<br />
with the harbor seals at shore;<br />
their grey eyes and bodies the color of the sea<br />
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<br />Lucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02207163688951148816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61008178136256396.post-39858610725686475822014-07-27T14:15:00.000-07:002014-07-27T19:48:56.313-07:00<div style="text-align: center;">
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o dark lady of the shadows</div>
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quivering in the locust leaves</div>
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the downright fact of it is</div>
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the deer refuse to be machines</div>
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what made me think i could solve this puzzle?</div>
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Lucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02207163688951148816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61008178136256396.post-69309019813880419762014-07-19T17:41:00.002-07:002014-07-19T17:48:27.976-07:00<br />
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<br />
<b><i>clear water : mattole poems</i></b><br />
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<br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">"I feel like a river</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> a wide river in the morning</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> birds and fish over and through me"</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> ~Janine Pommy-Vega</span></i><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
a sink hole has opened up<br />
where last winter David<br />
buried his horse<br />
--a form becoming void<br />
creating a void<br />
three gullies north<br />
dark stones are pulling<br />
the ocean back over themselves<br />
we all need a rest<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
i should spend the whole day in the apple tree<br />
20 limbs of leaf and sun and wind and fruit<br />
can go a long way towards quieting the mind<br />
<br />
picking off the too dense or misshapen apples<br />
i want to touch every branch<br />
<br />
the deer come right up to eat the forgone fruit<br />
while i think of ways to respectfully<br />
get them to fear me<br />
<br />
most likely i should go deep into the mountains<br />
where most things can be worked back into balance<br />
<br />
for now, i'll drop apples on their heads<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Bear Creek needs to flow<br />
back through the alder grove<br />
with a better culvert<br />
instead of crossing the road<br />
in that awful gravel wash<br />
to do so would "disturb<br />
an existing community"<br />
says Fish and Wildlife<br />
one thats at most 6 years old<br />
<br />
by the same logic<br />
there should be no planting of forests<br />
over the landfills because<br />
gulls and rats live on our plastic<br />
<br />
war seethes and money follows it<br />
salmon burn in the hot shallow waters<br />
they follow old, old river songs home<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
swimming at the Ranch Hole<br />
back eddy where the cold water<br />
sinks and your toes stir it up<br />
<br />
river bar stones hot<br />
on my bare ass and grasshoppers<br />
hit me in the head<br />
<br />
i'd love to be here<br />
when the river swells<br />
or when the thousands<br />
of juvenile fish gather<br />
back at the cold seep<br />
in the rocks of the wing-dam<br />
<br />
but likely i will not be<br />
there is youngness in me yet and<br />
i am all too familiar with<br />
the flighty high that the<br />
first step in leaving brings<br />
<br />
stay here for me, river<br />
as if for one instant<br />
you remain unchanged<br />
i have nothing to do with you<br />
i should say it to the mountains<br />
but like me they are leaving too<br />
we're all always leaving<br />
i'll say it anyway<br />
but take me out of this, river<br />
stay here and the mountains you keep<br />
river, stay here<br />
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<b><i><br /></i></b>
<b><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">jane's roses</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></i></b>
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">the whole day spent</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">pulling grasses </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">from under Jane's roses</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">find a leaf </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">trace it to the stalk</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">then stem and tug</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">all day</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">the horses eyes </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">following me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">through the fog</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Jane--</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> how beautiful</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> your roses each</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> a different shape</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> how they gather</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> the mute light of</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> a day in a cloud</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> at sunset they glow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> the color of the blood</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> they drew from me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> all day pulling grasses</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> from their stony beds</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Jane-- your roses! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> on your hillside</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> by the river</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> at the sea</span><br />
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<br />
it is not that there is nothing<br />
where we want a river flowing<br />
it's just the water is muddy<br />
as if some animal is crossing<br />
back and forth in a confusion<br />
like something could be learned<br />
on the other side<br />
and the footsteps stir the bottom<br />
to the murky edges<br />
<br />
its just that there is such thing as clear water<br />
that every stone and pulp of leaf<br />
and sunken branch and tiny fish<br />
can be seen with an unusual clarity<br />
and that the water magnifies whats in it<br />
that it spreads the light out evenly<br />
<br />
its that the water should be clear<br />
even up against the dark and tangled banks<br />
and where the tributaries cause cold riffles<br />
<br />
its that the reaches can be swum<br />
<br />
and all of it <br />
clear water<br />
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<br />Lucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02207163688951148816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61008178136256396.post-23627216989084270272014-07-15T21:31:00.000-07:002014-07-15T21:39:01.952-07:00<br />
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<b><i>"for a moment" series, cont.</i></b><br />
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for a moment<br />
at Mud Lake Ranch<br />
the ospreys sang<br />
to each other above<br />
the wild morning glories<br />
<br />
their calls reverberated<br />
in a place i've only ever<br />
seen the sunlight go<br />
<br />
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<br />
<br />
<br />
for a moment<br />
i believed it to be<br />
true that every poet<br />
must at least for a moment<br />
<br />
consider the grassheads<br />
bowing in the wind<br />
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<br />
for a moment<br />
the earth was enough<br />
<br />
even the giggly young girls<br />
admitted that something had<br />
changed in the psychedelic dusk<br />
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<br />Lucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02207163688951148816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61008178136256396.post-74291077327390881122014-07-15T21:07:00.000-07:002014-07-15T21:07:51.113-07:00a river could be loved<br />
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<br />
how close?<br />
<br />
only the thin<br />
<br />
morning fog<br />
<br />
on your body<br />
<br />
of water<br />
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<div style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Dan Brewer</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">from The Eel River Love Poems</span></div>
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Lucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02207163688951148816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61008178136256396.post-42341330664484072272014-07-15T21:03:00.000-07:002014-07-15T21:03:17.927-07:00<b><i><br /></i></b>
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<b><i>sleep above the lower river</i></b><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<i>does the river shine all night?</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
even after the moon<br />
stops lighting Tit Hill<br />
and the zodiacal light<br />
rescinds from the<br />
estuarine mouth<br />
<br />
<i>the river shines into night</i><br />
<br />
Mars caught in the<br />
Virgins ear of grain<br />
Arcturus always tickling<br />
my eyeballs, checking<br />
every hour, its true<br />
<br />
<i>the river shines all night</i><br />
<br />
in and out of opiums sleep<br />
and the clicking of midnights insects<br />
the valley is a dark groove<br />
waterway subduction slit<br />
--i'll love the river if i have to<br />
<br />
<i>the river shines all night</i><br />
<br />
waking,<br />
fog bank doming<br />
Prosper Ridge<br />
rolling over in the morning<br />
a two-point yearling, eyes at mine<br />
<br />
"<i>the river shined all night!"</i><br />
<br />
rise with sun-up dewy white<br />
fog comes inland<br />
to stick its clammy fingers<br />
in the valleys, snuff the river<br />
'til the sun, elucidating air from cloud;<br />
<br />
<i>the river shining in the light</i><br />
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<br />Lucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02207163688951148816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61008178136256396.post-91974127011062960562014-06-15T10:12:00.000-07:002014-06-15T10:24:14.717-07:00<br />
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<b><i>the longest dusk</i></b><br />
<b><i><br /></i></b>
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the light's become so<br />
good at lingering<br />
~westlight backshining<br />
the ridge trees, slowly<br />
<br />
at this hour<br />
<br />
buzzards wheel<br />
to find perch in particular limbs,<br />
flap noisily, settle and become another shadow<br />
<br />
squirrels make ways back<br />
to their cluster-nests for<br />
the evening and crows<br />
above say,<br />
<br />
"go home!"<br />
<br />
they dare not caw when<br />
the owls wake to hunt<br />
<br />
the wind keeps pushing the mountain;<br />
dry grasses lay down on the flanks of Barnabe<br />
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<br />
<br />
<br />
of all the ways to see it<br />
i keep coming back to the wind<br />
<br />
when you sit out until<br />
all we think of as still commences<br />
quivering in the subtle dusk<br />
there is no way of saying exactly<br />
when the night begins<br />
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<br />Lucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02207163688951148816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61008178136256396.post-23005994022907790612014-06-15T10:00:00.000-07:002014-06-15T10:00:10.539-07:00<br />
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<br />
i long for the cool dimness<br />
of morning when the sky<br />
is the suggestion of light<br />
and everything appears<br />
to be inhaling<br />
<br />
what is it that<br />
desires this attention?<br />
surely not the worn body<br />
or the mind all soft<br />
in the warm bath of dream<br />
<br />
that i rise from bed-heat<br />
into chilly grey air to sit<br />
with nothing but the<br />
flower of day<br />
--the soul must exist<br />
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<br />Lucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02207163688951148816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61008178136256396.post-45255669502059655912014-06-04T17:27:00.000-07:002014-07-27T13:12:58.994-07:00<br />
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<br />
should it not follow winter that<br />
i wake my body in the springtime?<br />
<br />
i want everything i do to be <br />
a walking into a cold river<br />
<br />
i choose to believe i keep<br />
the sunlight that torches my skin<br />
<br />
could it be that we are accumulations <br />
of the wind <em>and</em> history?<br />
<br />
a gust the size of galaxies<br />
still moving the tiniest leaves<br />
<br />
coincidences are just the <br />
enormous wind remembering itself<br />
<br />
coincidentally what passes thru my ears<br />
the hawk considers its keenest tool<br />
<br />
it is summer and my body, awake<br />
is an accumulation of all the sun that's blown<br />
<br />
it is the function of time to rearrange<br />
familiar things until they are unrecognizable<br />
<br />
i cannot remember something;<br />
just the wind forgetting itself<br />
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<br />Lucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02207163688951148816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61008178136256396.post-86120350019114685502014-06-04T17:19:00.000-07:002014-06-10T10:33:58.150-07:00<br />
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<strong><em>drunk, alone in a strangers cabin</em></strong><br />
<br />
<br />
am i alone?<br />
i feel as though<br />
<br />
i know people<br />
i have never met<br />
<br />
is not every star<br />
and fir-needle here<br />
<br />
for me to be with<br />
silently, as they are?<br />
<br />
its as though<br />
the moon was made<br />
<br />
for us sad, pleased hermits<br />
in our cold, perfect beds<br />
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<br />Lucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02207163688951148816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61008178136256396.post-14765810384530309232014-06-01T11:21:00.000-07:002014-06-02T16:23:06.020-07:00<br />
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<b><i>from the "for a moment" series</i></b><br />
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for a moment<br />
on the train<br />
the slanted-mouth<br />
woman and i<br />
shared the inherent<br />
beauty of stars<br />
<br />
the blooming forsythia<br />
passing by<br />
acknowledged this<br />
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for a moment</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
i was unsure</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
whether the falling tide</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
was not the water receding</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
so much as the earth</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
rising from it</div>
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<br />
<br />
for a moment<br />
i saw a meadow<br />
thru the trees<br />
<br />
coming closer<br />
what was a meadow<br />
was the shining buckeye flowers<br />
<br />
exuding light before<br />
the sun had even risen<br />
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<br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="text-align: left;"> </span>for a moment<br />
<span style="text-align: left;"> </span>there was quiet<br />
<span style="text-align: left;"> </span>where there had been birds<br />
<br />
<span style="text-align: left;"> </span>the sun passed by<br />
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<br />Lucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02207163688951148816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61008178136256396.post-44240727680549844232014-05-29T16:43:00.001-07:002014-06-15T10:16:17.785-07:00<br />
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<br />
<b><i>potential danger with witch-friends</i></b><br />
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<br />
of all the witches i know<br />
<br />
i might suspect<br />
<br />
that one of them unknowing<br />
<br />
could keep me in her curses<br />
<br />
when she meant me for her prayers<br />
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<br />Lucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02207163688951148816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61008178136256396.post-75003076126946296922014-05-27T16:33:00.000-07:002014-05-29T16:33:43.873-07:00<br />
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<br />
<br />
<br />
you say your mind<br />
has been far from your body<br />
connected by a long thin thread<br />
and that everything is light or flowing<br />
<br />
my mind has been<br />
stuck in my heels<br />
there are no connections<br />
<br />
no one wants to be<br />
an old shoe<br />
<br />
and your hands are becoming<br />
far too beautiful to look at, only<br />
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<br />Lucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02207163688951148816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61008178136256396.post-56300805016596621962014-05-15T14:10:00.000-07:002014-05-15T15:21:25.101-07:00<br />
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