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  • The Task of the Present Moment
    Did your English toughness lead you to reject
    the ancient discontents of history,
    by A60sMan 16 lines, 7 comments, on Aug 27 3:17 AM
  • We Send Out Light That Lives
    This sleepy little galaxy,
    lost in the milieu of a billion others,
    by A60sMan 17 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 1 6:13 PM
  • Encounter on Fishery Bay
    Encounter on Fishery Bay
    by A60sMan 59 lines, 7 comments, on Jul 5 12:10 AM
  • Breaking the Fourth Wall
    My first sense of the aversion raised by Frost,
    Walls swelled under, yet, I could not exhaust
    by A60sMan 16 lines, 1 comment, on May 20 4:00 PM
  • Wasteland Sojourn
    [2] “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air…”
    ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
    by A60sMan 23 lines, 2 comments, on Apr 5 2:37 AM
  • Fertility Rite at Brush Creek
    We sat in the overlook above the Serpent Mound
    in the heat of that garish July afternoon,
    by A60sMan 22 lines, 5 comments, on Mar 25 10:05 AM
  • Bouillabaise --- (Trois par Huit)
    Seafood stew
    A basil, saffron brew
    by A60sMan 13 lines, 1 comment, on Mar 22 3:09 AM
  • Yin/Yang
    Chilly nights in Seoul
    even trash-cans cuddle up for warmth,
    by A60sMan 14 lines, 3 comments, on Mar 12 11:10 PM
  • Nurtured Futility
    Time alone is the ultimate conqueror.
    It wears down great men and empires alike.
    by A60sMan 34 lines, 2 comments, on Dec 10 7:14 AM 2008
  • One of Sixteen Vestal Virgins
    The Saturday night crowd all here to see Dave van Ronk,
    sit huddled in the fashion of Antwerp diamond cutters,
    by A60sMan 23 lines, 6 comments, on Dec 8 3:10 PM 2008
  • Burghers of Calais
    Heroic in the face of fate,
    nooses cinched about the nape,
    by A60sMan 8 lines, 1 comment, on Dec 5 11:49 PM 2008
  • Cupolas
    She was the onion dome atop his minaret,
    venting light shards to his soul,
    by A60sMan 10 lines, 2 comments, on Dec 3 10:33 PM 2008
  • Drowning in the Squonk's Tears
    Changing buses at Flamingo and Decatur
    a Sister oggles my comped leather jacket,
    by A60sMan 24 lines, 5 comments, on Dec 3 10:19 AM 2008. In Contemporary, Life, Personal
  • Chinook Restored to Tumwater (re-written)
    Redds shine like new nickels on the dark river bottom,
    salmon have returned to spawn the Deshutes,
    by A60sMan 18 lines, 4 comments, on Feb 13 10:19 AM 2008
  • Their Hour Is Their Eternity
    Beware the ugly woman who thirsts for admiration;
    She's apt to take up the violin with zeal,
    by A60sMan 10 lines, 5 comments, on Feb 3 1:05 AM 2008
  • Don't Give Up --- A Poem for Alexandra
    I put on the old LPs tonight, Alex,
    from a time long before you were born.
    by A60sMan 35 lines, 3 comments, on Jan 9 10:35 PM 2008
  • In the Company of Strangers
    On the third day of this trek descending
    rapidly from cloud forest into high jungle habitat,
    by A60sMan 27 lines, 9 comments, on Dec 7 1:12 AM 2007
  • Seeing Through an Artist's Eye
    The artist chose concrete to sculpt "The Lovers".
    Playfully made the woman taller than the man,
    by A60sMan 14 lines, 4 comments, on Nov 30 7:34 PM 2007
  • tea today at four
    pour some words into my ear
    make a nice stout aural darjeeling
    by A60sMan 14 lines, 3 comments, on Nov 30 3:54 PM 2007
  • Who Counts a Woman's Tears
    The abscission of voice comes,
    storm from the veins of clouds,
    by A60sMan 12 lines, 5 comments, on Nov 30 3:34 PM 2007
  • Piercing Insight into the Obvious
    By 1959 the only labels that she wore said 'drip dry',
    but as I peered through the sliding French door
    by A60sMan 10 lines, 11 comments, on Nov 21 12:08 AM 2007
  • wind river mountains
    her fantasy fulfilled
    she guides him by pack-horse
    by A60sMan 46 lines, 8 comments, on Nov 15 6:49 PM 2007
  • Counting Coup
    Dusk and dust envelop this intriguing Amish couple,
    as she watches through the windshield of her parked car.
    by A60sMan 27 lines, 16 comments, on Nov 15 6:30 PM 2007
  • Mr. Ivories
    Mr. Ivories
    entertains with elan,
    by A60sMan 25 lines, 8 comments, on Nov 15 4:12 PM 2007
  • Divine Service
    Concinnity of rapid motion in balance and proportion,
    round the ballroom, like the synchronized frequency
    by A60sMan 13 lines, 9 comments, on Nov 2 8:57 PM 2007
  • Color Possesses Me Still
    It's a feminine eye that first detects
    absurdity as a condition of existence.
    by A60sMan 16 lines, 6 comments, on Oct 31 12:34 PM 2007
  • They All Run in Packs
    The hiker cannot dwell there long,
    concealed on a high gull-lined cliff,
    by A60sMan 29 lines, 7 comments, on Oct 9 3:49 PM 2007
  • Signature Singularity
    I am curled upon myself
    in those seven hidden dimensions
    by A60sMan 20 lines, 7 comments, on Oct 5 12:05 AM 2007
  • Le Fantome de L'automatique Laundrette
    I peer behind a tattered paperback
    by A60sMan 9 lines, 5 comments, on Sep 25 5:46 PM 2007
  • Between Body and Word ( for Lucia )
    She came down from Mt. Rainier like
    a female Moses descending Sinai,
    by A60sMan 17 lines, 6 comments, on Sep 13 8:42 AM 2007
  • Partir en Fumee
    Sequestered on the morning downtown bus,
    descending headlong toward a sulphur sun,
    by A60sMan 13 lines, 6 comments, on Sep 7 12:43 AM 2007
  • Empirical Breakdown
    Regardless how refined the analysis of his life,
    A man will remain an enigma,
    by A60sMan 16 lines, 7 comments, on Aug 26 9:59 PM 2007
  • Turning Revolt into Style
    Flickering in the wind, like a pale candle,
    left on the windowsill quite by accident,
    by A60sMan 11 lines, 7 comments, on Aug 22 1:16 PM 2007
  • The Only Gambler in Las Vegas
    Standing alone outside the Mirage,
    I felt like the only gambler in Las Vegas.
    by A60sMan 16 lines, 11 comments, on Aug 21 7:24 PM 2007
  • Bottom Fishing
    Memories diffuse
    like sunbeams glint off a lake,
    by A60sMan 21 lines, 13 comments, on Aug 21 5:49 PM 2007
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