The Waves

they come at us not quite together like lines in a poem we’ve never read or have forgotten like most of what happens to us they’re…

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…