Two Hundred and One 12.30.16 Ay!! Happy birthday wonderful Autumn Rose! May you always shine, may you always dance, and may you always laugh to my bad jokes my friend! Also, mad love with lots of kabab and super chill times from the motherland! I have not looked at my laptop since my flight from … Continue reading Kenneth Koch – To You
Pablo Neruda – XVII (I do not love you)
Two Hundred 12.23.16 Happy Fridaz Fam! Go easy into this holiday weekend, go with love in your heart and tenderness in your voice. Go easy and take this time to relax, to sit in the space between shadow and the soul, where poets are drunk, soul sings to bone, people read poetry, and street lights … Continue reading Pablo Neruda – XVII (I do not love you)
This is how I would speak to you
For Shelley Tiera Devereaux This is how I would speak to you Were you born a sailor? or is it just the curl in your hair that makes you one with the ocean, when you are on your ship to survey the ancient landscape hidden under the blue sheets untouched by the light. Was it … Continue reading This is how I would speak to you
Will Rogers – If You Feel Adrift in Time
Will Rogers If You Feel Adrift in Time Remember We are exactly where We were always meant to be. And while it's true we will always be here and nowhere else, True this moment lasts forever, Its waves rippling out and out (and out). It's also true We will never Be here Again This moment: … Continue reading Will Rogers – If You Feel Adrift in Time
A letter to Rainer Maria Rilke 9 days before his death.
You, Darkness - Rainer Maria Rilke "You, darkness, that I come from I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world, for the fire makes a circle of light for everyone and then no one outside learns of you. But the darkness pulls in everything- shapes and fires, animals and myself, … Continue reading A letter to Rainer Maria Rilke 9 days before his death.
Vladimir Holan – Meeting in a Lift
One Hundred and Ninety Nine. 12.13.16 This poem from Holan is for you. whom I have looked upon and seen rarely. For the all the times we did not see each other passing by, in the dead of the winter, heads buried in jacket collars. For all the times we held somebody else's hand, in … Continue reading Vladimir Holan – Meeting in a Lift
Not Knowing You
This poem is for you. whom I have looked upon and seen rarely. For the all the times we did not see each other passing by, in the dead of the winter, heads buried in jacket collars. For all the times we held somebody else's hand, in the intersection, on the way to home. For … Continue reading Not Knowing You
W.C. Williams – This is just to say
One Hundred and Ninety Eight 12.6.16 Sorry not sorry for the plums! And from my side - this is just to say hi to you after a while and unexpectedly like the moment you realize there's a little bubble in your soup or sun is caught in leaves just the way you like it or … Continue reading W.C. Williams – This is just to say
Leonard Cohen – The book of longing
One Hundred and Ninety Seven 11.28.16 Leonard Cohen The book of longing I can't make the hills The system is shot I'm living on pills For which I thank G-d I followed the course From chaos to art Desire the horse Depression the cart I sailed like a swan I sank like a rock But … Continue reading Leonard Cohen – The book of longing
Mary Oliver – Two Kinds of Deliverance (P$ Bday)
One Hundred and Ninety Six 11.26.16 On the start of a new journey around the sun. Poets are buzzing street lights are all dancers, police are carrying flower, and you are half as far. Mary Oliver Two Kinds of Deliverance 1 Last night the geese came back, slanting fast from the blossom of the rising … Continue reading Mary Oliver – Two Kinds of Deliverance (P$ Bday)
One Poem At A Time 