Pablito! Body of a Woman Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs, you look like a world, lying in surrender. My rough peasant's body digs in you and makes the son leap from the depth of the earth. I was lone like a tunnel. The birds fled from me, and nigh swamped me with … Continue reading Pablo Neruda – Body of a Woman

Richard Brautigan Your Catfish Friend If I were to live my life in catfish forms in scaffolds of skin and whiskers at the bottom of a pond and you were to come by one evening when the moon was shining down into my dark home and stand there at the edge of my affection and … Continue reading Richard Brautigan – Your Catfish Friend

Time for some beautiful lines and absolutely crazy formatting..Happy Friday - ah thank you Frank, and all the other people out there peopling... wonderful to kiss you, wonderful to be alone, wonderful to love you, wonderful to depart - I am alive with you - for you - from you. You can also listen to this … Continue reading Frank O’Hara – St. Paul and All That

Yes yes yes!!! you!! Give me your hand, I'll bring the wine! “A book of verses underneath the bough A flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thou Beside me singing in the wilderness And wilderness is paradise now.” ― Omar Khayyám, Translated by Edward Fitzgerald

I read the poem below this morning, and I wrote this one at my cafe-office looking at a guy peacefully sleeping while holding his giant organic chemistry text book across the table from me. - Ryokan "Even if you consume as many books As the sands of the Ganges It is not as good as really … Continue reading Ryokan – Everything is in the Heart

Kobayashi Issa O snail Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly  

“Slowly slowly O mind... Everything in its own pace happens, Gardner may water a hundred buckets... Fruit arrives only in its season.” ― Kabir

Damn! Thank you!!! whoever you are! I love you! Nâzım Hikmet Because of you Because of you, each day is a melon slice smelling sweetly of earth. Because of you, all fruits reach out to me as if I were the sun. Thanks to you, I live on the honey of hope. You are the … Continue reading Nâzım Hikmet – Because of you

Wendell Berry Real Work It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the … Continue reading Wendell Berry – Real Work