The purified essence of moving energy is like an eagle flying. Or a monkey limping: Hanuman seeking herbs on the mountain failed so brought the whole mountain. ______________________________________________ Every word on the page is pain coming or going seeking or striking each brings its own blood type running down the paper. - - - - …
Month: August 2017
Perseid Meteor Shower, North Summit 12:viii:17
With a million stars all around the Perseids scratch like claws striking sparks across the atmosphere. Nighthawks chase gnats around our heads swooping close to our faces, and we lie back on this dark globe watching it turn without feeling it. Earth's rotation falls behind the Space Station's orbit which cuts between the open pincers …
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8/11/2017
The Improbable Life and Prescient Poetry of Basil Bunting by Christopher Spaide (New Yorker) Chomei at Toyama by Basil Bunting (Poetry Foundation) How America Lost Its Mind: The nation’s current post-truth moment is the ultimate expression of mind-sets that have made America exceptional throughout its history. by Kurt Andersen (The Atlantic) 1922: The Year That …
8/8/2017
Hakuin’s Song of Zazen: Three Translations of the Zazen Wasan by James Ford (Monkey Mind) Technicians of the Sacred: Ethnopoetics and the New Indigenous Poetries video lecture by Jerome Rothenberg New York Today: The Poetry in Politics by Alexandra S. Levine (New York Times) Theater of the Absurd: The Jewish State vs. Palestinian Poet Dareen …
Cliff Lovers
Teaching in Chinatown, I am near PG&E’s 77 Beale Street where peregrine falcons nest each spring. I stand before students, lecturing about rats and wolves, and notice the mated pair launch and land on the peak of the skyscraper. Both mother and father brood their clutch of eggs. They hunt birds in the grey city …
Jedediah Smith 