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Monday, August 24, 2015

noises off

It's a theater term that means, there are noises off-stage. Such noises indicate goings-on that the audience can surmise but not see: background chatter and busy-ness. The noises of Seattle, here where I am staying, are very different from the noises of Colorado Springs. This is a city, and there is a steady white-noise like an air conditioner outside the window, though no responsible device is in view from the window. There is the occasional bang of a door no one thinks to close quietly, and... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, August 21, 2015

What luck!

I was sooo lucky yesterday! First, I, for once, set my alarm to go off at 4-30 am... luckily, Charlie woke me just before that, and that was when I realized my clock never made the Savings Time spring forward... I'd have been an hour late. Then... When I printed out my boarding pass, it seemed odd it printed 2, so I left one home. Shoulda read it... It was a two flight trip, connection in Denver, and it had printed both boarding passes. I had time, though, at the airport, to get them reprinted.... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, August 20, 2015

Touch down!

Tomorrow I will write about moments of extraordinary luck while traveling... For now, I'm too tired to think, after 3 hrs of sleep before rising at 4:30 this morning to get to the airport. The air was terribly unclear between Denver and Seattle, the whole west is hazy with the smoke of wildfires. But then, there were a few good shots to be had... From here https://flic.kr/p/wEhWRh click to the left to get the images in proper order. This is the first batch... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Flying...

...to Seattle tomorrow morning! To the airport at 5am for a 6:40 flight to Denver, 2+ hours layover, then about the same time in the air, arriving in Seattle in time for lunch. Friday, eye surgeon will do his assessment of my ocular orbs, and presumably on Monday, will fix one of the them. About 10 days later he will check his work, then I fly home again, if all's well. If it isn't... well, we will deal with that if and when. I went shopping this morning and found a large plastic planter/tub for... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, August 17, 2015

This one is for Naut who loves the sea

OCTOPUS Lurking loosely, blobbishly unrolling your enormous head a-lolling with a kind of neckless grace as you come pouring down the face of rocky coves and coral caves that shimmer with a most enchanting glimmer through the roof of pulsing waves. Gem set in a jewel Red or yellow, white and polka-dots and stripes or maybe cobalt blue. Loosely committed to your shade, your shape also defined sort of by whatever space you fill... And yet, in you a hunter's canny will and truth be told, you're... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, August 16, 2015

Thinking of Pat and all the muse-attended writers here

This was written originally for a writer friend who had a very special relationship with her muse. MUSE Under branches reaching... for light of stars and solitary moons and wanderers across the sky... Always I am here-- another tale unfolding, a flower held in both our hands unbudding to an unexpected bloom... The light of all these skies shines-- between our eyes... Never fear-- I am here. Seek me seeking you-- in corners of your heart known but unexplored... in campfire shadows... In... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, August 15, 2015

new summer space

Yesterday, a tall narrow box arrived on my front porch, courtesy of Fed Ex, and it caused several household changes. Inside was a white ricepaper/wood 6-panel screen. It fits nicely across my front window with the two ends folded in. Up until this arrival, I've had a long piece of reed fencing, folded in half, in that place where its shadow helped keep the summer heat out of the living room. With that freed from the task, it could go where I originally intended it: along the deck railing. It is... Sign in to see full entry.

This one's especially for TAPS, and all the other midnight writers

MIDNIGHT In the quiet after midnight then my artistry awakes and in the dark when others sleep, that's when the fit of writing takes my hand and mind and bids me think... It skips and tumbles down the page leaving in prints of pen-and-ink images I never thought before and thoughts never imagined-- They enter through the midnight door from moon- and star-light fashioned. ~1985 Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, August 14, 2015

Out of the Poetry Cache

This one was published once in a newspaper/magazine in Seattle with New Age leanings. It was quite a few years ago, I don't know if the paper still exists. This one is for Amanda, TAPS, and Nautikos. (I didn't say it on yesterday's, but that one was particularly for Kabu also TAPS.) ASCENSION Struggling, striving, yearning towards the light, our passage isn't always seen by those in passing either way. We climb, we pause, we rest... and reach again... And though we dally here and there or sleep... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, August 13, 2015

A cache of poems

So much change, so much reorganizing, which is a kind of inadvertant treasure-hunt with sudden finds of long-misplaced goodies! I came across a fat envelope containing print-outs of many of the poems I've written over the years, some in collections ready to be assembled into little chap-books and offered at local bookstores. I will be able to do that now. I will be posting a few here in coming days. Here's one now, in fact... from the Menagerie collection: THE CATS DECLINE The cats have run away... Sign in to see full entry.

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