About

A poet considers the intersections of language and numbers, connections between disparate entities – the currents stirring within the Phoenician iteration of our letter M and the Japanese character for water, mizu, or the intertwined strands of solar wind and shadows, black-chinned hummingbirds and  coastal death rituals – all, of course, while contemplating good food and that most magnificent of elixirs, beer, which may have been the very foundation of civilization. Or not.

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  19. Thanks for liking my humble post on ironing and daydreaming. I’m fortunate to discover your blog. I have no words for the beauty of your poetry. And I’m very seldom without words.

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  20. I loved your About section! When I read it I thought “He understands me!”
    Those multiple connections between disparate entities that my brain is making all the time make me a stranger among people… who rightly have a hard time following my thought processes.

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      • A month ago we went to a wedding in San Salvador, and the priest with the same jumping-mind-syndrome launched on what turned out to be a 2 hour sermon. He said: “Little lovebirds, as you embark on this journey of matrimony I will tell you the four ‘f’s that you should put in your back-pack.” He started with Faith… 45 minutes later he was still there. The sermon was in Spanish, so I whispered to my Enlish speaking husband, ‘he is still in the first f’. Finally he moved on to the second, ‘Fecundity’… When half an our later he was still talking about it (sort of), I raised two fingers for my husband to see… And similarly with the third F… By then, I told my husband, ‘When you see me go on and on and on like that, just raise four fingers and I’ll understand that I should stop”. I believe someone in the congregation must have signaled something to the priest, because for the fourth ‘f’ he just went: “Oh, and Fidelity”.

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  22. Thank you, kind man, for your visit and your “like.” The black-chinned hummingbird was a visitation that hooked me. I will be exploring your blog, which appears full of edges. Edges. . .the places where Mystery happens.

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  35. This is just a short note to let you know that my entry for Day #1 of the Three Days, Three Quotes Challenge (https://rivrvlogr.wordpress.com/2015/11/23/day-one-of-the-three-day-three-quotes-challenge/) does not include your name as a nominee for the challenge, contrary to the specific rule to nominate three bloggers. 😉
    Instead, I’ve pointed readers in the direction of three of my favorite poets here at WordPress. Needless to say, you are one of them.

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      • I haven’t read poetry for years and years because I have run across so much ordinary fare. I just didn’t feel like there was any that spoke to me, or opened up a emotional space I could thrive in. It was an ordinary landscape, so I just wandered off and found a city to dwell in.

        Your poetry makes me long for the deep desert again, to inhale in the tangy melange… dancing around the coming and going of Shai Hulud… 🙂

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      • Be wary of spice and large worms! My tastes in poetry have broadened over the past four years. For example, I had grown weary of linear narrative, but now find it, in the right hands, compelling. But I suppose you could say that about anything. It’s difficult to find those hands. 🙂

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  42. Looking around at your blog, I’m honored you ‘liked’ my humble poem for Bert’s Birthday. Your blog is enchanting.

    “Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he’ll sit in a boat with a fishing pole and drink beer all day.” Lorena McCourtney, ‘Invisible’

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