farmington canal ride, year 2
23 miles Cheshire to New Haven and back This year, the trail was completed into New Haven, although still some construction going on. This is a Connecticut leg of the East Coast Greenway. We...
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contours of the natural surface
Apropos of tracing the edges of cuts in leaves, I came across the following description of Clarice Lispector’s painting in Why This World, chapter 42 “The Thing Itself:” (quoting Clarice)”…profundity is not the only...
slugliness
JULIE PATTON / SLUG ART ecopoetics 1 I’m reading Why This World, a Biography of Clarice Lispector by Benjamin Moser. One of the main themes of the book is Clarice’s search for God in...
poets for living waters
Poets for Living Waters Poets for Living Waters is a poetry action in response to the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico begun on April 20, 2010, one of the most profound...
flights of fancy
DOUGLAS OLIVER / THE HERON (In memoriam: 1937-2000) ecopoetics 1 I like this poem very much. At first reading, I felt an old-fashionedness about it, that caused resistance. I would call it Romantic. Looking...
slipping
Tom Morgan, “V.” from “Slip and Field” ecopoetics volume 1 page 83 Coincidence – I have a copy of “Slip and Field.” I picked it up for $5 in Left Hand Books in Boulder...
east side ride
almost 20 miles from 3rd Avenue bridge (actually 129th and Park) down the east side along a bumpy sidewalk route with multiple washouts over the Queensboro Bridge – I hesitated due to fear of...