The Hub thinks I should post a poem a day. It might be better than just stacking up drafts like cordwood. It might be a step in the direction . I’d half want to organize a collection around some arbitrarily chosen theme and then pull out poems around those nodes and show them. I seem […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Is all of poetry all just interesting because they are crib notes for the back story of what the personal life events were of poets at the time? I feel like I’m missing a whole cultural chunk somehow. Maybe I am trying to look too deep and discipher something profound when there is only surface […]
from behind
half-blissing realize warm nuzzle surprised my nape should be almost audible those ploops of arm hair up with such force as torpedoes zooming under their root, tenting, marvel at the floor, spotless without nub litter of goosebumps blown off as confetti only the steady smooth step of shadow, sliding away chuckling —
re: precipitation of violence and art's duty to lead by providing ideals
Prevention on the earthly level, on the horizontal plane, is dealing with symptoms. It’s not dealing with the source of pathology. The source of our pathology is mind. That is earlier than the body. So, we need to ask ourselves, how does the mind work? If I drive a car and I’m teaching my son […]
Li-Young Lee Breaking the Alabaster Jar quotes
p. 66 of Li-Lin Lee, Feb 96 Li-Lin Lee: In poetry, there’s a much higher level of communication. In painting, it’s the lowest level. It’s like when you see a rock cliff. You’re astounded by it — the formations on this rock. That’s a very low level of communication. You see it and it affects […]