Poem as a road

poem as a road
Where  do you take the reader?

Timer

The formal logic of the clock

What if all that we knew for certain
changed
if minutes ticked faster than seconds
and we didnt know the equation
and knew when a person
w(h)ere to transfer
we would have a farewell

Can you be like a clock
or do you want to be
an alarm
or a time stamp
an hourglass like the
Suikinkutsu (Water harp)

Antiques are time stamps
without such inscription

Change

That we are changed by what we change

Because.. so

This prompt is from my daughter who says

"Because I want to meet my friend So"

because heart is a timer so
because our obit announces us so


A friend contributed
because I said so

Collected Longer Poems

The Good life is confined above the snow-line
A style whose meaning does not need a spanner
 At Home in Time has an essay The Reader in W.H.Auden's New Year Letter
If they thought art was upto nothing, why did they make it?
Oscar Wilde with his art is useless and Auden with his one less painting not changing history, is it a quibble with art?
Is art not a window into humanity?
Wallflower
In 'New Year's Letter', Auden call

 

How were poems different when I was born?

Rope came true - tightened?
translated - transferred to heaven
slop bucket
Will always be true
A poem that you will read twice. Makes me wonder why didnt she refer by Castor and Pollux.  More of Lorrie Goldensohn Tea Musician?

what is the color of the tea?

R.G.VLIET's tea-brown curtains
make me wonder

is it not the colour of milk
if less tea powder
dark if boiled too long
and gold when it tastes
as you like

A tea invitation

To look out the clear backyard air and then into the cup

Dictionary

General purpose - suitable for two or more

Geophone  - vibrations through rock?

Write a Georgic like  Virgil

The Informed Air

Musquash coat

If a place could speak then each landmark would be a word. To have a great primitive black crag rising up in the middle of populated streets of commerce, stately squares and winding closes', she wrote, 'is like the statement of an unmitigated fact preceded by "nevertheless"

Turning Down the Sound

blacksmith by night



chainsaw- carving competition

Parenting

why I'll never read another parenting book

A
 Cool Gear bottle on a metal cabinet on the wall reminds me of the fate
of my bottle in my daughter's hands
the current one facing smash like Greek plates
one forgotten in a store
which could happen to adults too

Should tech find  flying bottles
or just parenting

Feather Banner

Now I remember quotes

 
Author Glieser of The island of Knowledge, sees
shores of knowledge as ignorance  but another sees there,
the shoreland of wonder

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep - W.H.Auden

Family Secrets

Parents and grandparents who lived in India, now give their British progeny, 'The Call of the Dead'