Dec 31, 2006
This has been perhaps the most challenging year of my life. It began with the knowledge that it was not to be long before my head was cut open and a bypass done in my brain. --That is, if I was accepted as a patient by Dr. Spetzler. You know how oftentimes we make New Year's resolutions that we tend to forget and not...
Dec 30, 2006
The blizzards have made me
think of this poem, "Drought," since it appears that the drought
has ended.
People must wonder how
many people the water here can support. Definitely
xeroscaping is a good idea here.
Sprout, grow, bloom, go to seed . . .
Dec 6, 2006
For a Man
You light a fire in an ash
can
under the willow and sliver moon
setting with Venus
over the open sea.
We talk of shifting continents,
how this wind may breathe over us
the mingled dust of our ancestors' bones.
Mars rises behind the moon.
The fire casts violent shadows
over your face. I...
Sep 29, 2006
Now I'm wondering if it was the aneurysm pressing in my brain,
creating a Pressing-Feeling. I know there was a day before
the doublevision set in that I got up in the morning and started
down the stairs, and the doubling existed for a few
seconds.
Prior to my awareness of the aneurysm, I had two bad falls on...
Sep 17, 2006
Nine poems September 16 on this podcast. Four of them
in two sectors -- subject of love-- other, subject of
politics. And a single one: "Drama."
Sixty or so saved in my files. Some of them I intend to
change before anyone else hears them.
Some others will soon be arriving here at Libsyn.com. I
haven't yet...