Ghazal on Isolation“…continue the shine in vivid isolation…” Agha Shahid Ali another dawn tugs on my skinbegging me awake in birdsong my cold shoulder longsfor the tongue of yesterday’s chorus – the extended version of a ballad I didn’t know could endghostly alive in such vivid isolation my mind is a silk slip on a… Continue reading Poem 126 – Ghazal on Isolation
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Poem 124 – Muskoka & May Event Round-Up & WEreads!
Muskoka muskoka calls me like a secret loverher yearnings gripping the edges of busty winds& jumping into the soft spot under my earlobes – patient in the tender shadows we had a love affair for three summers…maybe twothe memories are lake blurry – does it matter? time lived differentlyshouldered against tall trees: pine spruce fir hemlock… Continue reading Poem 124 – Muskoka & May Event Round-Up & WEreads!
Poem 122 – Much Happening in the Air
Much Happening in the Air there is much happening in the air this morningblue jays throwing screamsrobins rolling rebuttals perhaps they converse about the coming heatcomplain about droning leaf blowers – the feather-shaking annoyance of themthey know very well that the wind is more than capable of making leaves dance whatever their grievance or gratefulnessit… Continue reading Poem 122 – Much Happening in the Air
