“my hedon eden”
ELENI SIKELIANOS / FROM THE CALIFORNIA POEM ecopoetics volume 1, page 99 I’m stuck on writing about this excerpt. It’s from a book-length poem. I feel like I should look at the whole book....
Monthly Archive: July 2010
without fear of appearing foolish
Dance is not a familiar art form to me. But I found myself on Deborah Hay’s website where I ran across these statements. I like to try to apply them to poetics, whether performed...
found thing
pond moonsees a name? a phrase in a compressed language? a poem? a mutual activity with ambiguous subject and object? PS Later – I’ve been remembering this phrase as “moon...
morning warmup ride
14 miles (almost) down to Cove Beach then over to downtown Darien then back home I started out wearing a light jacket, believe it or not took it off after a 5 mile warmup...
enjoy your cup of tea
ANDREW SCHELLING / A BIOREGIONAL POETRY CLASS AT NAROPA ecopoetics 1 I could swim around in Andrew Schelling’s essay for quite awhile. Let me just take a couple of quotes out of context to...
travel – montana
Struggling with Google maps to outline our trip. It’s not complete, but it’s as close as I could get it. The map had the road to Many Glaciers, but not the road to Garnet...
grasshopper cracking
Grasshopper cracking is metabolic cactus spine drama. Yet chance operation goes completely neglected by pundits of nature. Why? Fusty neo-Victorian beliefs concerning the person? Fear our little house on the prairie has nobody home?...