February 2012
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Happy Birthday John Steinbeck
from “Paradox and Dream” (1966)
by John Steinbeck
One of the generalities most often noted about Americans is that we are a restless, a dissatisfied, a searching people. We bridle and buck under failure, and we go mad with dissatisfaction in the face of success. We spend our time searching for security, and hate it when we get it. For the most part we are an intemperate people: we...
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I'm not okay with Chris Brown performing at the... →
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Riprap - Gary Snyder
Lay down these words
Before your mind like rocks.
placed solid, by hands
In choice of place, set
Before the body of the mind
in space and time:
Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall
riprap of things:
Cobble of milky way.
straying planets,
These poems, people,
lost ponies with
Dragging saddles –
and rocky sure-foot...
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So Simply and Softly I Float
He falls in love with an open door,
A man who says good bye too many times,
He wants what he can have.
Doesn’t push,
He waits for it to disappear again
and says good bye.
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I saw lights
obscured behind arms reaching.
I could see the light passing-
throughout and up
into a blank sky
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The ability to grasp it all
only to see it fall away
Looking over the
fog and clouds,
the bay is...
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