Poetry: # 46

# 46 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti from A Coney Island of the Mind And every poem and every picture               a sensation in the eye and heart Something that jolts you awake             from the rapt sleep of living     in a flash of…

Poetry: Kolmården Zoo

Kolmården Zoo by Bill Coyle Over our heads, trailing a wake of air and an enormous shadow as it passed, the falcon glided to its trainer’s fist and settled like a loaded weapon there. Then, while she fed the bird…

Poetry: Change

That last was so dark that I had to post something a bit lighter. Change –Louis Jenkins From The Winter Road All those things that have gone from your life, moon boots, TV trays, and the Soviet Union, that seem…

Poetry: It’s a Living

It’s a Living –Richard Vargas From McLife: Selected Poems 1978-2004 it’s called customer service trying to help my fellow man make sense of the medical insurance some slick carpetbagging agent talked him into buying there are no easy answers like…

Wow

ozarque linked to Mike Allen’s poem The Journey to Kailash today, and I just read it. For the first time, as I know there’ll be more. Damn. I mean, damn. Inspiring and daunting by comparison, at the same time.

Poetry: Standard Plumbing

Standard Plumbing –Marie Harris From Weasel in the Turkey Pan Plumbing supply places, like auto parts stores, have long counters with bar stools for the customers. When I came in, the man behind the counter was telling a story about…

Poetry: A Scientist’s Acrostic

A Scientist’s Acrostic –Jennifer Gresham From Diary of a Cell Scientists are like beetles Crawling over the earth, antennae twitching, In tune with the mysteries Einstein whispered under a star-polished Night sky. He chose the celestial playground by Convention-even logic,…

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