Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Today

On checkerboard linoleum
in the
dark

lodge,
peeking through
the evergreen's needles.

2 comments:

  1. It's so hard to do poems of simple images that have a resonance beyond the addition of 1 + 1 + 1 + 1..., and yet you succeed wonderfully here.

    I could imagine this as a translation of a poem written in the year 1348 or 1877 or 2012 by some zen poet who has been studying winter as a notebook.

    It's the way a Shaker room (to speak of the extinct) can be a luminous poem.

    We covet such emptiness...as though it were something we can't afford.

    And. Living here. I suppose we can't.

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  2. I apsire to be a shaker. I'm always purging the layers of life that build up around me and in me. Thanks for your comment.

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