BURN YOUR BONES I’m looking at the trees because That’s all there is to look at Existence non-existence, beauty Is beautiful although their bare. The sun shines through the naked Branch and lights up my day. It and I keep reaching higher like A bud does in blue/grey sky. I hear the blackbirds out there Cawing nurturing nature’s way. I can see the bottom/top today. Nature has its way of showing it all It throws a coin, nearest to the wall. It shows me I have won just like The blackbirds caw, there’s food on That their soil, nourishment for Another day to feast not to toil. Roots they make me stronger reach down ever higher, you can burn your bones on this funeral pyre.
A BLOG OF IMAGES AND POME'S.... ISINGLASS Reading Elizabeth Bishop, the poems blur Like looking through as she says: ’ isinglass’ Everything becomes translucent, mapped out On the page. Her rhymes aren’t just rhymes but Fixtures of life, they find their own form. Wow, I wish I could write like that I don’t even have any form but I’m searching For her sequence in the inlets of Donegal At the Fishouses along the Ray River I saw them somewhere before. Going through old poems to find sea shore I hope this poem moves in and out And reflects her sense of belonging I’ll never get the old man and the sea. Not now that I’m here all alone but I can read a master in my own seal-skin.
MISALLIANCE Structures sacred in stroke time- Now, why are they no good to me. I want to make something when Recalled not imagined but memory Eludes me? I hear the mumble Of my own tongue. The painters Vision is a lens, it trembles to caress my sight. Everything I write is the bare- thread art of eye. Shot-snap, grouped life on high, un-balanced paralyzed fact misalliance. ‘yet why not say what happened’, Robert Lowell said. Pray for the accuracy of grace. Giving rise to the suns illumination Yearning, stealing like a tide Across a map, solid, passing poor Facts. To give each figure in the photo A living name. #191 on top 500 poets
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