Lines For Winterby Mark Strand ( Read more... )

Twelve shen_tats drumming
Eleven peleflowers piping
Ten dancingwolfgrrls a-reclaiming
Nine autumnreigns boatbuilding
Eight ursula_scas a-kayaking
Seven lilairens a-wildcrafting
Six coffeeems a-brewing
Five re-e-e-edheadedmuses
Four shadow_agencys
Three herbs
Two runes
...and a science in a fantasy.

....hmmmmm.....

Then too there is this
by J. Allyn Rosser

joy in the day's being done, however
clumsily, and in the ticked-off lists,
the packages nestling together,
no one home waiting for dinner, for
you, no one impatient for your touch
or kind words to salve what nightly
rises like heartburn, the ghost-lump feeling
that one is ( Read more... )

I am, finally, home for keeps after a long and joyous, fun, challenging, exciting, peaceful, wonderful weekend.  Right now I'm so...full...that it feels as though my skin can barely contain it ( Read more... )

Its been a weird day.  Many of you know that I was laid off in the Spring and then called back as temporary and part time through the summer.  It was exceedingly difficult on a number of levels.

And now the temporary, part-time stuff has come to an end.  As of 6 pm today, I am once again...unemployed.  The thing is, I think I'm *more* pissed off ( Read more... )

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October

by Jacob Polley

Although a tide turns in the trees
       the moon doesn't turn the leaves,
though chimneys smoke and blue concedes
       to bluer home-time dark.

Though restless leaves submerge the park
       in yellow shallows, ankle-deep,
and through each tree the moon shows, halved
       or quartered or complete,

the ( Read more... )

I seem to be reading a lot of poetry lately;  or a lot of poetry seems to be coming to my attention.

I just came across this:

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The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski

your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the ( Read more... )

I read this one several times in the woods this last week...

" God is in the Details," Says Mathematician Freeman J. Dyson
by Pattiann Rogers

This is why grandmother takes such tiny
stitches, one stitch for each dust mote
of moon on the Serengeti at night, and one-half
one stitch for each salt-fetch of fog
following the geometries of eelgrass
in fields ( Read more... )

As most of you know, I work in a large, independent bookstore.  So when I came across this in my weberrific wanderings, I just *had* to post it here!

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A tip o' the hat to Jesus' General (lots of fun with political satire and the wingnuts of the right).

The video came from the Regulator Bookshop, and my home-away-from-home is the Toadstool Bookshop.