Recent Posts Tagged With 'snapshot poems 2009'

• Snapshot Poem 29 July 02009

  Posted on Wednesday July 29th, 2009 at 14:58 in poetry, snapshot poem, snapshot poems 2009

  today it's the koi catching the light as they emerge from dark water your family, my family at the surface of dreams so thin, that skin between today, and then I go back, again and again, I reach for you but grasp nothing but fog, opaque and elusive,...

• Snapshot Poem 15 July 02009

  Posted on Wednesday July 15th, 2009 at 22:01 in photo, Photograph, goldfish, snapshot poem, snapshot poems 2009

  my past came to visit today we sat together in the garden both thicker, older, milder each carries memory of the other each carries memory for the other we stretched out our legs rested our shoulders back watched the koi drift in the pond & pulled in...

• April - May - June 02009

  Posted on Thursday June 11th, 2009 at 13:38 in poetry, extremism, fanaticism, domestic terrorism, snapshot poem, snapshot poems 2009, richard poplawski, scott roeder, abdulhakim mujahid muhammad, james von brunn, friday cat blogging 5

  2009-06-10 the lives of thousands rest on his shoulders the enemy is vile and wily he is strong enough to carry this weight he is strong enough to meet this enemy he is strong, he is brave he is willing to die for what is right these people, if you c...

• Traveling to Arizona | snapshot poem

  Posted on Thursday June 4th, 2009 at 16:13 in photo, poetry, poem, snapshot poem, garden ornaments, snapshot poems 2009, arizona garden

  flat-bottomed clouds, piled high ice-cream scoops in a blue dish home-made chocolate sryup wind chimes singing what is fundamental? what is superfluous? mockingbirds, cactus wrens, hummingbirds at the sugar water a woman, forgotten, in an outdoor cag...

• Snapshot Poem 18 March 02009

  Posted on Wednesday March 18th, 2009 at 21:57 in poetry, poem, snapshot poem, snapshot poems 2009

  It rains at bedtime. I release my hair from my grandmother's turquoise combs. The cat weaves around my feet. Rain pings on the furnace pipe, thuds on the shingled roof. I hear it rush through the gutter sluice. It sounds so free, so much itself. Thes...

• Daylight Savings

  Posted on Sunday March 8th, 2009 at 15:17 in poetry, snapshot poem, daylight savings, snapshot poems 2009

  This hour stolen from us,an hour of joy; an hourof misery; an hour of workor dreaming. The sparrowsgo on building their nestin the long-untenantedbirdhouse. Cows waitat the barn gate, slowlyswishing their tails. Mountains fall beneaththe sun. We all ...

• Snapshot Poem 04 March 02009

  Posted on Thursday March 5th, 2009 at 10:16 in poetry, poem, snapshot poem, snapshot poems 2009

  Audrey folds the quiltat the bottom of the bed.Chilled in the night, I reach one-handed and pull it up under my chin. It unfurls smoothly, unlike love....

• Snapshot Poem 11 February 02009

  Posted on Wednesday February 11th, 2009 at 12:25 in poetry, snapshot poem, snapshot poems 2009

  Seas between us, and time. I climb beneath my quilts. You wake in a bright room. You are not alone. I move through dreams dense with rage. Your children berate me. There is no escape. This long winter....