The title comes from a chapter of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Saint Genet; the rest comes from an afternoon ferry ride with a supposedly ‘routine’ escort by Coast Guard vessels, and the news. My attempt at commentary isn’t successful, but if I still think this poem worthy after some time has passed, I will have plenty of opportunity to work on it…
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Bookstore Poem #521
Tonight’s reading (It’s About Time, at the Ballard library) was the first one I had been to in what feels like forever. I wrote lots of new poems during; this is one of the couple that I liked… Continue reading
Vintage 1963 (a poem)
Another weird day—I’ll leave it at that…
Error messages (a poem)
What a weird day—in an oddly unremarkable way…
Two-story (a poem)
So I did write something this morning. Inspired by this photo…
Bookstore Poem #507
…and because Mercury has been in retrograde since last week…
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Bookstore Poem #504
In semi-heavy editing mode since yesterday, so here is the first of a couple of poems from Saturday… Continue reading
Hopscotch Atlantis (a poem)
Put disparate elements together, and somehow they make sense…
New dark (a poem)
Something very simple to end the day…
Daydreams (a poem)
Watching movies…