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Author Archives: Pearl
Timeless classics?
Some poems time travel better. Translations can update the linguistic wardrobe I suppose. Night Thoughts I cannot sleep. The long, long Night is full of bitterness. I sit alone in my room, beside a smoky lamp. I rub my heavy eyelids And idly turn the pages Of my book. Again and again I trim my […]
One Deep Breath: Countryside
A few short thoughts…. in the countryside realize urban gaps: sumacs, milkweeds — out host’s door disoriented sky is starrier — wooly bear wiggle races the shutter speed almost wins — One Deep Breath Prompt: Countryside
Lover Night
Disconcerted Soulless is all humanity to me To-night. My keenest longing is to be Alone, alone with God’s grey earth that seems Pulse of my pulse and consort of my dreams ~ Penseroso by Tekahionwake Night is not a vast, but a bas relief, or a tripping stone (productivity stumbles). Mind artificially day-lit, flick off […]
A solution?
How to see all I have and sort them while keeping it in mind and findable when it’s spread across 150 files? I need to impose some order here. Could the answer be making hundreds more files? May-be. The trick will be not editing. Identify, copy, flag and paste. Otherwise I’ll bog down. So tentative […]