December 2005
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Hard Winter
It’s the last day of 02005, and it seems I should take Watermark out with a winter poem, but I don’t have a new one; so, here is an old one: Spike bit Maxine on the hand last week. As blood came up in tiny beads, he rubbed against her legs and purred. Plows… Continue reading
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Critter Resolutions
A Crazy Cat Lady action figure! Except for the fact that my hair is still mostly dark, and I’m not skinny, and I have only two cats — that could be me. And since I am getting an iPod Nano for Christmas (!!!), of course I want this totally frivolous and useless [useless since I… Continue reading
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The Irresistible Beauty of All Things
From Harpers Magazine, September 2004: Poetry is like faith — it isn’t meant to be understood but to be received in a state of grace. No one should say "this is clear," because poetry is obscure. And no one should say "this is obscure," because poetry is clear. What we must do is search out… Continue reading
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Interesting Photos
[Where are they? They’re gone.] Shelley and qB have both posted Flickr’s picks for their top photos, according to the mysterious interestingness formula. Here are mine: Continue reading
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Duck Soup
Didi asked that I post an audio of this very odd poem. This was written in response to one of her challenges: write a poem using all of the following impossible phrases … I’ve done this before, with some success. This one, I think, is less successful — but still, here it is: MP3 File… Continue reading
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