Bad Stop

clouds heavily drape stunt mountains visibility first improved cool coming everything available dry dry dry dry the climate felt ahead blithely drive 75 some faster pass on curves casino horrible lunch bad stop haze thickens thins higher altitude head full words form chains letters remarks not about merely being Finlandia Mt. Shasta

Greater Joys

love vitality serenity all for dance sez Jimmy Waring plus for writing sincerity warmth an honest heart romantic suffers greater joys who loves gives all he can plays fair resolves no conflict with survival Japanese seasons more poetic adds conditions am I happy is this what resembles actual transforming love

Call Rufus

a memory of optimism reborn call Rufus ten years ago dead always the present living now erase so called reality you can lose the story no one else was there anything I say is all now knowing better possible then still informs the vanished view

Push Back

the planet is pressing on me I push back against it put my back to it in the sunlight under the walnut press feel it hold it down with knees and hands as I change position stand on it walk on it sit on it (through chair and floor) keep it in place against me

Moving Touch

hearing diction slurred even French remaking glasses cross your fingers haircut five years younger to myself no mirror eyes closed moving touch Adam Rapp moments one good short scene take me back to the Cherry Lane goodbye culture we'll be all right here in the country only another few years coal gasification kiss Earth goodbye

Beyond Time

holding my own hand etc. always thus taste is absolute beyond time changes accept enlarge reinterpret greetings from life lessons shared personal centering identity project progress wishes final benevolence

Paris on Ether

give me natural night climes in sheets of golden recovery where world beauties drive mild transitional interviews here we go bananas berries over dubbed fiction or fact without Edie nothing worse remembering Paris on ether

All Ages

made lunch Kelley soufflé tomatoes basil nasturtiums raspberries cream typed open loving letters correcting memory touch person cherish being drum circle grange all ages warmed my big Taos drum celebrate equinox

Going Higher

report on Swiss walking Berlin craziness meet with Janie transfer secretary duties oil change editorial board pick candidate letters Italy Amsterdam poems Jackson's Paulann in Turkey Peter chemo villanelles lawn furniture in deer fence going higher horse washed conversation steak squash this is nothing in details texture meaning

Happy Writing

relife more objectively pleasanter easier rainfall research good information drops patter skylights staying inside natural I can't go Boston Off-Off-Broadway do too far too exhausting thanks sorry I've promised Maurie light "The Goat" happy writing everything makes sense

Deaf to the World

Lula da Silva of Brazil made a great speech to the UN General Assembly about what Brazil is doing to eliminate poverty and what the whole world could do if it devoted resources to that instead of, particularly, war. NPR broadcast a few minutes of it, but then nobody said anything about it. Instead the media misdirected its attention to Bush nattering on about his usual sorry themes, beefing about Iran's nuclear program, defending his mess in Iraq, wringing his hands about Darfur as if that miserable situation justifies his disregard for the United Nations. Is it unAmerican to listen to Kofi Annan? We are deaf to the world.

Everything Is Erotic

everything is erotic all images people movements winds and weather light vibrations colors sensations stirring music fabric fur skin dancing movies drinks food eating sleeping breathing everything time stars eternity thinking words speech silence

No Alternative

gold for teeth zinc for prostate Jerry Lewis for mood disorders party to make you feel too old happiness history of mistakes further poetry publish books country poets creekside read duvet season mow the weeds welcome night no alternative

Young Ideas

before board bored half resigned whim Andrew other lighters save Richard young ideas grate I'm elsewhere reconstructing ancient history 1965 so misty flickering brilliance everything was new we made up magic teachers opera boyish dreams an empty space our stage patterns forming project imagining first gestures word play music friends risk all inhabit fantasy glamor visions evidence

Stay Here

Deborah L.A. tracking down dates see auroville.org sincere earth aim human unity go there or stay here read Bills fight AIDS make plum jam bring out color barn bathroom floor clean first hard vision flood devastation spirit rises what else brave passage no other world

Brown Rice

red and green lentils black beans short-grain brown rice brown rice flour yellow corn flour buckwheat flour organic quinoa quinoa flour 10-grain cereal granola sea salt baking powder (non-aluminum) curry powder muchi (hot) curry powder happy birthday

Real Women

sleepy time no matter solitude real women children abandoned movie write all day song comes latest possible moment old pal permanent liking far far away like a splinter deep under skin

Rich Living

possible teamwork publishing helps think April deadline hometown work nothing else decided move makes wavering unnecessary finish this that send money reserve hotel keep writing thankful attention to give no dimming yet others cope bravely capable finally arrive where Horace was modern farmer urban edge appreciating seasons garden plain healthy food rich living time

First Fire

delay gratification all formula go besides ether moon signalling time squeezes all receptors give rendezvous coordinates away Shepard Wenders characters in places real stuff slowly realized art political reality small town friends feast asters first fire

Happy Man

off is adjustable said Hassan wittily she prayed one hand to a tapestry four men dancing singing moved in on her space we can only go along usual waning chores pleasures in harmony myself friendly admiring trees work remembering digging in philosophy how be happy man

Straight Story

city moment enough eat buy leave Irene play pick Mozart shop make granola dine write "Devil Prada" fun love Streep how good human McMahon "Happiness" helpful Socrates Aristotle distinct where our ideas come from simple blur not to not be understood my words refer no need explain straight story backwards go

Between Games

amazing moment comes begin writing not watch movies or tennis well tennis between reading between games easy myself purple red slightly edgy then do it going continues house clean trash out raspberries picked mail delivered background moment arrives seize it

Button Cry

imagine Sisyphus happy necessary trick Camus open anyone think it so light so be dark soon enough my button cry never hunger returns desire arises loneliness nipped before it wakes

Wax Moon

how much I love this lucky life glockenspiel soundtrack done delightful year's pear chutney tomatoes potatoes raspberries projects book to write or not plays conversations chocolate good coffee love snuggles art summer lingering wax moon

Personal Quirks

holiday labor employer cleans house vacuum bag full corners never swept furniture moved moldings wiped we must talk devise permanent strategy read "The Goat" deft funny painful hated it at ART defensively respect what Albee does how extreme clean structured pointed personal quirks what else thoughts calls Mauresmo- Williams (S.) match Hewitt-Gasquet hip hurting yesterday's hang hard today crawl holiday kick-back O.K.

Ice Cream

not complain but my very educated mother just served us noodles reward lighting setup grind chocolate ice cream tennis watch time Terry brought Blaine ran board sharp will refocus maybe start book this week ready enough again rare competence

No Excuses

celebrating her 70th don't talk about it anyone younger O.K. me I understand summer finale ready rain no excuses suggestions only unattached outcome dressage Devonwood dinner Nick's five courses too much we've learned

Day Off

nothing intended done day off too hot do anything computer turned itself off few hours free reading stage fright concrete poetry eyes dubious watering practice gay Poulenc measures curry beans drive Carol Lewis Clark Lora-Faye room campus Tensie flies mothers daughters