Sunday, January 1, 2012

IN SEARCH OF MEANINGS

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Photo by Dave Bonta, Via Negativa IN SEARCH OF MEANINGS We point our dishes at the farthest stars, / searching for any crumb of meaning...
Saturday, December 31, 2011

TWO POEMS FOR THE NEW YEAR (2012 B.M.A.)*

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ARDENT WISH That night will come, fully felt, indelible, there will be no key to turn on the door: it was always with me in my breas...
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Friday, December 30, 2011

IN SOMALIA, A BETHLEHEM: TWO MORE CHRISTMAS POEMS

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IN SOMALIA, A BETHLEHEM: TWO MORE CHRISTMAS POEMS Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not:   for of such is t...
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

LITTLE QUESTIONS

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L ITTLE QUESTIONS   But neither plaster, nor/ marble, nor stucco rooms/ end your search for/ the end of the rooms/ or a roomless door.-...
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

THE QUIET DISTANCE: TWO OTHER CHRISTMAS POEMS

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Photo by Bobby Wong Jr., Philippines THE QUIET DISTANCE (For Mother on Christmas 2011) At night, in sleep, my right/ hand cups my c...
Thursday, December 22, 2011

LIKE A TENDRIL

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LIKE A TENDRIL   Tendril wound through my hair; small whisk of breath: I love your ambiguous arrivals. Reminder of what might leap into...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

JUST A WOMAN

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JUST A WOMAN   Use it as/ a cup from which to drink today / like a woman who isn’t a mother: / just a woman, just a girl who wants/ to ...
Monday, December 19, 2011

THE MANGER: A CHRISTMAS POEM

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THE MANGER No light shines that is not itself a road/ No other door opens except in dreams .---From “In Dreams” by Simeon Dumdum, Jr.  ...

TASTING SNOW

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TASTING SNOW A pair of Carolina wrens—one in the lilac, the other in the dead cherry—flit from branch to branch, tasting the new-fallen ...
Sunday, December 18, 2011

SENIORS DREAM OF CHRISTMAS WITH OPEN EYES

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A Christmas Message delivered at the Sampaguita Senior Citizens Club 2011 Christmas Celebration, December 17, 2011, Mississauga, Ontario, ...