Stone #43

Grass lays uncombed
like dirty green hair.

A lattice of frozen white water
frames tufts in a lacework of ice.

Stone #42

A tired day, my book of ink words, images, obscure, inert, until I open the crisper drawer in the fridge, two papery onions.

Dancers in White

Dancers in White, 2010, 21cm x 29cm, 8"x11.5", ink on Moleskine.
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Stone #41

Under the melting snow an accumulation of banalities, cigarette butts, plastic wrappers, sodden cardboard.

Paper Dancer

Dancer, 25.5cm x 11.5cm, 10" x 4.5", pen on Moleskin

May be a poem by tomorrow, or in the next few days.

                                          

Stone #40

The black pupil of your eye hides a hall of flames burning darkly.

Stone #39

A comet crashes into html. Lunar dust oxidizes. A pion prevents a war. Lactic acid fossilizes a Boeing wing in-flight.

Stone #38

The path is disguised in the hologram of the cityscape. Where does it begin in the volumetric display, how do I follow it? Yet I must.

Love on the Love Day

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On the day of love an album of love poetry.

My poems, overall, are about a poetics of love... the spirit in our loving.

Though I am a lyrical poet who writes love poems, usually in the first person with an I and thou, an other, a lover, with whom the narrator of the poem speaks. I have accepted this about my writing. It's my natural gesture, the way I think, how my heart beats.





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Every day is a love day, of course, but Valentine's celebrates romantic love.

Perhaps to be contrary to the sugar-coating edges of Valentine's, and to remind us of the beauty of friendship, Dave Bonta put out a call for, and created a podcast celebrating Platonic love. Listening to it, and there is a full range of poetry expressing many aspects of non-sexual love, I'd say, in summation, Platonic love is going through a bit of a crisis in these viagra-driven times. In some regards, our culture is characterized by highly sexed media productions where profligacy is rampant. The simple joys of friendship are over-looked - though, often, as the poems in this collection attest, there are difficulties and pain here too.

While I support the vibrancy and energy of eros, there has to be feeling, intimacy. Unless we are unique individuals to each other, affirmative, inspiring, fulfilling love cannot happen.

What holds our heart? Often deep and life-long friendships are dearer to us because they are comfortable, stable and constant, which is in contrast to the rather bumpy serial monogamies that are the stories of many of our lives.

Whether the beauties of Platonic love can call our muses to their heights of expression, I don't know. These attachments are safe, easy, uncomplicated. And, really, the story of love in most of our lives in most of the world is the bulwark of friendship.

Veils to Clothe Venus is included in Dave's podcast.

Woodrat Podcast 34: Platonic Love.

                                          

Stone #37

moss, ice rock, spore-green papillae, the invisible sun in the darkness

Green Fire 1

Green Fire, 21cm x 29.2cm, 8" x 11.5", Moleskine, ink.

Words:

'Follow the green fire that's in your life and in mine. Billow. Float through green streams of smoke. Remember to look under the burning leaf.'

'waiting for spring in the emotional subconscious'