• too tired to write

    I have spent much of the day learning to use a documents service, in order to make homes for the ‘longer’ discussions on poetry. then they can be added in as active links (along the right side of the blog). Current Preoccupations include: Difficulties with internet dissemination, from translation through copyright; and the issues of faithfulness to the…

  • “The Cry” by Mirjam Tuominen.

    There is a cry in the forest I want to go home The keys have fallen The paths have disappeared I cannot go there I am badly frightened I have frightened myself very badly They have frightened I have frightened I want to go home to the dolls there at home Home to the stove…

  • from “Poem Rocket” By Allen Ginsberg.

    This is an excerpt from Poem Rocket, by Allen Ginsberg, Moon politicians earth-weeping and warring in eternity tho not one star disturbed by screaming madmen from Hollywood Oil tycoons from Romania making secret deals with flabby green Plutonians- slave camps on Saturn Cuban revolutions on Mars? Old life and new life side by side, will Catholic…