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Laura
A friend recently gave me a copy of Louise Gluck's book of poetry A Village Life. I have had mixed feelings about her poems in the past but I love these. She creates a simple,... More »
Laura
Enlightenment is: do what you want eat what there is. ----Jack Kerouac
Laura
Imagine the orginal question Of grace. Observe the wild white why Of almost. See how empty Ink can be. Use that canvas of dust To weld your raw shimmer Into song. lks 7/24/09 (this is... More »
Laura
Space. No work I absolutely must do. No definitive claims on my time. Freedom. A growing sense of divestment from my preconceived notions of how things have to look and seem. It's empowering but often highly unsettling. For... More »
Laura
When you become quiet, you let yourself relax into the moment, into your true nature. When this happens, you realize you cannot avoid any part of your experience. If you are looking for quietness to... More »
Laura
This evening I went for a walk in my thin place. It's a badly paved country road swooping along a slight incline with stretches of meadow on either side. I approach it by a... More »
Laura
The Word of the Day A piece of river comes down out of the mountains while I'm sitting on its banks, chewing the crust of a piece of wheat bread slathered with apple jelly from... More »
Laura
This is something I just kind of put together quickly, just now. Very impromptu. A line from Dave Bonta's wonderful microblog Morning Porch got me thinking along these lines, and here's what came along. Here's the... More »
Laura
Sky ghosts speak to your deep red mornings remember the velvet work of present voice lks 3/19.09 ( This is another from the haiku magnetic poetry kit I got recently.)
Laura
Lately I've been playing around with this haiku magnetic poetry kit I got recently. I've been putting the words together kind of instinctively, not terribly quickly but not without a lot of deep thought. it's... More »
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