the wednesday poem

"There is also in each of us the maverick, the darling stubborn one who won't listen, who insists, who chooses preference or the spirited guess over yardsticks or even history. I suspect this maverick is somewhat what the soul is, or at least that the soul lives close by." - Mary Oliver

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

To the first day of March and wide open prairie ~

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To make a prairie (1755) To make a prairie it takes one clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee. And revery. The revery alone will do...
Monday, February 13, 2017

Poem for V-Day!

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You, Therefore You are like me, you will die too, but not today: you, incommensurate, therefore the hours shine: if I say to you “To you...
Tuesday, February 7, 2017

International Clash Day on my birthday! What could be better? RESIST and Know Your Rights!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lfInFVPkQs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15FfWj11uys
Friday, December 16, 2016

Happy 15th Birthday, Micah!

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Elemental Phoenix Ruler of the Scranamals Look in the sky it is a rare sighting of the Elemental Phoenix He flies around the sky wit...
Friday, December 2, 2016

Here's to the celebration of the olfactory and the circular nature of memory and desire ~

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Oracle of flame How many lives Echo within The coiled histories of One Rose ~ ~ At the lip of amber Wet ink P...
Friday, November 11, 2016

After election heartbreak and outrage: 3 poems and a safety pin to offer my teenage son ~

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When the Roses Speak, I Pay Attention "As long as we are able to   be extravagant we will be hugely and damply extravagant. Then w...
Tuesday, August 9, 2016

To the monsoon rains in Southern Arizona and Robert Creeley!

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The Rain All night the sound had come back again, and again falls this quiet, persistent rain. What am I to myself that mus...
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