Should he close the nose?

"Close his eyes" says
the calm dog owner

A pitbull is climbing
onto another dog
even though a leash
and the owner struggle
to bring him to ground.

Radio waves never die

- Jeffrey Koterba

Universal truths
Sun rising in the east

Our dreams, our visions
Our intuitions, Our flow
from dead or fellows

Hemingweyian origin

Inklings
Davenport

Objects of our affection
Hepplewhite cabinet
Noritake
White and blue Canton from Kwantung
sea burial
Minton set

Looking at Chinese wedding lamps, I am reminded of another tradition. Korean wedding ducks
Doulton
wedgwood
Staffordshire
Spode
Quartermaster
Dorothy Draper

Pictures as story tellers

Hopi Summer
.. the Hopis I spoke with were fascinated to se historic images of their communities. - Carolyn O'Bagy Davis


The curiosity of one to trace photos of land and people connects the children to their roots and the lying rocks to once hoisted boulders.

I have a picture of a house and a tree in a book.

Odd corners
John Le carre
Stanislaw lem

Borges Lectures

Seven Nights

Everything connects, but it is Borges alone who can make these connections, across cultures, across literatures, across languags, across time. - Alastair Reid.

Icelandic sagas

Difficult

Like a sea poems consistently break the flow with a twisted sentence structure.

Palm trees

woodpeckers dig nests in them
nests of coir fall under them
dispute, wind, out of need

Versatile Saramago

When I read that Jose Saramago's book The Notebook is also a blog, I was looking for a shortcut. I thought I will be happy with the link at my disposal. From what I understand, that blog must be somewhere but only in Portuguese. So no luck there. I read the book feverishly last night. He is like modern Samuel Pepys spanning the extremes of a closeted writer and a person who knows all about current politics.

Jorge Amado

Apelles
Rita Levi
Teratology
Carlos Fuentes - Aura
Spiritual family of Saramago
Ramon Lobo
Enric Gonzalez - Stories of New York
I like the sound of Teide in Tenerife

Kerouac's diet

Which of Breughel painting has most life?
Like a Breughel painting, On the Road teems with life, celebrating our moments on earth even as it mourns them. - Jay Atkinson,
Paradise road

The first time I heard of Kerouac was in reference to the Death cab for cutie work being comapred to him.

Colors and sounds

Henri cole
Pierce the skin
The poems recall the plains, managing to keep the interest of the poem in all of its breadth instead of just as a line coursing through the page, zig-zag, left to right and down, repeat.

Listening to the lonely whistle

The Living fire

Maud Gonne
Rosicrucian

I liked 'Three Journeys'. 'Execution' and other poems which I would write in a single line show to elaborate on an experience.
A book that I will sit with to learn how to write.

Review

Reading experiences

My Reading Life
When Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloom'd by Walt Whitman - elegy on the death of Abe Lincoln.

A Dance to the music of time

"Pat, don't you think the passage of time is what all literature is really about? Poems, plays, novels, everything?"
- Gene Norris, Pat's English teacher.

Millay

I like the courage in Interim
Back cover

Her elegies are good. 'still' appears a lot in her poems.
A maiden lost in love is not down.

No rose in a garden that ever grew
In Homer's or in Omars or in mine

-Edna St Millay

If memory worked differently
our poems would not end in
rhymes but begin with synonyms
or end with antonyms

If it remembered experiences with
varying degrees
our poems would end in
er and est

Her sonnets