Monday, February 22, 2010

facing the vastness


Many a hearth upon our dark globe sighs
after many a vanish’d face,
Many a planet by many a sun may roll
with the dust of a vanish’d race.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

winter


There was white inside,trying to seep out of pores,I felt it straintrying to mesh and meldwith this sentient wraithfingers touchingjoiningand suddenlyI am the morning mistdancing in the crystal air.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

bird woman


Humming Bird Woman by Carl Sandburg
WHY should I be wonderingHow you would look in black velvet and yellow? in orange and green?I who cannot remember whether it was a dash of blueOr a whirr of red under your willow throat—Why do I wonder how you would look in humming-bird feathers?

Sunday, February 14, 2010

think of what is not thinking. How do you think of what is not thinking?


Hito wo yume to ya omoishiruramu; sumi suteshi, sono wa kochou no yadori nite
That man's life is but a dream - is what we now come to know. Its house abandoned, the garden has become home to butterflies.

Friday, February 12, 2010

Murmurs and echoes still bring up—Eternity’s music, faint and far


I scowl in sullen guise­The sea grows dark and dun,The swift clouds hide the sunBut not the bale-light in my eyes,And the frightened wind as it fliesRuffles the billows with stormy wing,And the sea is a terrible, treacherous thing!

Thursday, February 4, 2010