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From this weekend Paris Review e-news letter: Photograph of William Meredith by Dorothy Alexander. This week, we’ve unlocked an interview from the archive selected by Elisa Gabbert, whose poem “Life Poem 1” appears in our new Spring issue, no. 247. By this past September, I had not written a poem, o...

The ordinary treasures, far from ordinary. Loved the memory palace in miniture of this beautiful well composed poem.

A resonant and beautiful piece... A nice juxtaposition of the Nike sneakers with the deep adaption theme, the disapearance of our civilization with the 'lost kingdom' of the birds -- gorgeous.

Day 30 Day 30 Day 30: Washing Machine 4/30/2019 My best poetry has a rhythm I think when woosh chunk woosh chunk woosh replaces the poem in planning in - stead hear Guru guru wash wash ching chung guru wash chung goo a chanting that calls the Ancestors the washing machine starts turn turn - ing exf...

Ferlinghetti Didn't Recognize Me 4/29/2019 There was the time dig a substitution was made spent the day working at CityLights man North Beach and all living the not-so-secret dream to connect become a part of a servant to the lineage poets artists madmen and a friend who never asked me back said I ...

Variation #28 #deepadaption 4/28/2019 (to be read slowly methodically think plodding but without the droning of syncopated marching rather ecstatic sparsity rather than the busyness of methodical grieving where the beginning and end are the same color and one can’t differentiate between the white w...

Drains
#deepadation 4/27/2019

‘In your own life
what part is the
most Important?
The Beginning
The Middle
The End’

Roshi asks
and with those
simple narrative
adjustments tension
drains leaving 
only this 
here
now
.
 

Too Sick 4/26/2019  looked at the date and the time they both said 4:26 -- too sick today to write poetry let the Body do it  instead along the street a lone sneaker #23 sits on a rock Significant? The Eyes select the fingers tap tap tap words from the usual place someplace in the million billion i...

Just like Us #deepadaption 4/25/2019 When it starts I never know  where it goes The Spring Bee came through the open Door looking for a place to be chased out with Love watched her mechanical search for a new hive the hole in the screen  door someplace dark tending toward cool where the matriarch w...

The Consumer Science Oat h #deepadaption 4/24/2019 I solemnly declare I believe in Science not god I believe in the Scientific Method but vow never to apply it If I experience something irrefutable funky wunky irredeemable crazy hazy vow not  to believe my senses and soul are owned by the Method an...