David Biespiel on W S Merwin
the outpour of feeling for WS Merwin this week is amazing, and continues…
a good poem today by Amorek Huey
reading a poem a day is a good idea
a good Carl Phillips poem
sleep and sheep… and other good things…..
Floaters
this dock sits where and when I sit a few paces out over a bordered lake whose outward pacific pose is for the comfort of the…
The High Window’s Featured American Poet, Spring 2019: D. Nurkse
Originally posted on The High Window:
D. Nurkse was born on December 13, 1949, in New Jersey, the son of Estonian economist Ragnar Nurkse. He received…
Taoist antidotes to anxiety
Poetry is of course a cultural statement as well as an individual conversation. Taoism is a deep undercurrent in the West, but all you need to…
The Long Sorrow of Trees
We call it winter but for them it needs no calling chatter of birds and chipmunks, of rats they don’t ignore these exactly nor discount them…
a look at Steven’s blackbirds
Old Wally suggests 13 ways, and there are a number of analyses….and here…..
Thirteen Reasons and an Aside
Where a pond once was is dried mud and tall yellow-green grass memories of ducks swimming idly. Before we had ancestors we were self-made; now we…
Blue Popcorn
Sometimes it is only a voice, at others a clear tap on the shoulder or back of the hand now and then he will land on…
The Dog Star 