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Tag Archives: poem
Snowfall
New snow this morning, & a poem to go with it.
Job 42.13
A poem based upon a verse in the Book of Job, with an account by a Kansas farmer who saw the inside of a tornado in 1928.
Posted in No Way Way, Poems Also tagged Bible, Book of Job, natural disasters, theodicy, Voice from the Whirlwind 1 Comment
Yukon River Haiku
In August 1995, I went on a jail monitoring trip to several villages in the Yukon-Koyukuk region of Alaska, riding in an Alaska State Troopers helicopter. This is a series of haikus that came out of that trip.
Posted in Poems Also tagged Alaska State Troopers, bush Alaska, haiku, JJDPA, Yukon River Leave a comment
Saturn is Heavier in My Dreams
Saturn is Heavier in My Dreams
My head’s getting squashed again, all low and squat
like I lived on Saturn or someplace like that,
where the planet is heavy, and a woman from Earth
can’t lift her head.
My feet drag like they do in my dreams sometimes,
and I don’t know why . . . like there’s a path
I’m trying [...]
Theodicy (poem)
Nine years ago, in July 2000, my friend Wendy’s daughter Jessie was killed by a drunk driver. I wrote this poem for Wendy. But mourning can be a hard & private thing, & I didn’t want to intrude — it took me a year to feel able to give it to her.
We talked today about [...]
Ode to Alcohol (poem)
I’m a safe drinker nowadays (& besides, I love this photo, & Midnight Sun Brewery makes some good stuff!), but back in the day I drank waaaaay too much. Yet it played a role in my letting go, eventually, of self-hatred. It, & my friends. Same poem I mentioned in my last post.
Prosody geeks: [...]
Posted in Depression, Poems Also tagged aha, alcohol, beer, friends, giving up self-hate, Heidi, Julie, Lori, Midnight Sun Brewing Co., pantoum, Sharon, Village Lounge & Disco, Wellesley College 2 Comments
Deaths
Today’s a day that’s had a lot of deaths in it. The first was the death of someone I hadn’t known of before, a woman named Jerri Nielsen, an ER doctor from Ohio who was working in Antarctica and had to treat herself when she discovered she had cancer. That was in 1999, & she [...]
Posted in Greens, Journal Also tagged cancer, candle, Dad, David Carradine, death, Farrah Fawcett, Jerri Nielsen, John Lennon, Michael Jackson, Mom, Village Lounge & Disco, Wellesley College 1 Comment
Alaska Love Poem