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Tag Archives: poetry
The Lovers Encore
After sharing the texts of One Week of Nights and Days, I realized that the story of The Lovers would lend it more meaning to most readers, and recalled that I had already told the story of that life-altering vision … Continue reading
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One Week of Nights and Days
I have spoken of kundalini–that is what runs through all this work. The following pieces are very special to me because of the circumstances that brought them. Pamela was a local midwife who had never had children. I first heard … Continue reading
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Standing, Look to the End
When I was a girl, Swinburne became my favorite poet because his sounds and rhythms were headlong, and because I sensed a powerful erotic mystery behind his words. He was a publicly professed atheist, but his poems were so pagan … Continue reading
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Tagged dance, dancing, kundalini, life, magic, music, mysteries, poetic mysteries, poetry, swinburne, writing
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Always Easter
Here is another late-night instant lyric. The Christian imagery is plain, but so is something pagan running alongside it. Poetry meant so much to me when I was young, obsessed me so entirely at times, that I swore to do … Continue reading
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Tail-Biter, Explained
Here is another ‘tail-biter’–a species of poem in which the ending rings round and reveals the beginning in a different light. Go back and reread, and it will be a different poem that it was the first time. These poems … Continue reading
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Lonely Working
‘Here’ is a little story of how I came to be. Late at night and quick as lightning: 6 May 2024 Your Lonely… She came dressed in a robe of such shimmering colors– look at the state of my arms’ … Continue reading
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Slippers
It was late at night, as usual. Lines started running through my head. A bit of whimsy slipped through, although it’s serious too. We are slippers in the sense of ‘time slips,’ slipping into the Imaginal: 4 May 2024 In … Continue reading
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Old-Fashioned
Everything I make is at least a little old-fashioned, but this tiny lyric is especially so. It came to me after a friend shared some verses about flowers: 2 May 2024 Whose Heart? Your heart describes a fairy-ring where all … Continue reading
Singing-Over
The rain just started pouring down outside. I am so happy to hear it. I love rain–this is a rainy coastal place, and it has never yet rained too much for me. The sound of it brings quietness with it … Continue reading
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Tagged epitaph, formal verse, imaginal, imagination, lyric verse, magical working, memorial poem, poetry, spirituality
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So Much For That
The book I was working on wound up yesterday. I only felt the end coming on a couple of days before that, but I had also been feeling a bit slowed down and listless compared to a few months earlier. … Continue reading
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