ㅁ So in the dream I returned to U of Penn where I learned that my thoughts would have been spurned.
Category: Englyn
Caveat: Poem #2198 “Focus”
ㅁ Do slugs ever get to sleep? Is their life just dreaming deep? "I dreamed I climbed a stone: steep."
Caveat: Poem #2197 “Room to stretch”
ㅁ Put a redwood in the ground because its roots had been bound by its pot, plastic and round.
Caveat: Poem #2196 “Speechifying”
ㅁ The words came out like tree sap, viscous, soporific pap, brought on in me a brief nap.
Caveat: Poem #2195 “Intention”
ㅁ I set my feet to walk west - I thought that path would be best; and then I'd come back and rest.
Caveat: Poem #2194 “Clear day”
ㅁ and what's to fear in the seas? and why not enjoy the breeze? and what memories are these?
Caveat: Poem #2193 “The 3-hour drought”
ㅁ The sun made a small effort to make the road a desert, but hours passed and rain met dirt.
Caveat: Poem #2192 “Optimistic pessimism”
ㅁ The world's awaiting time's end, "Apocalypse 'round the bend!" But each time, instead, things mend.
Caveat: Poem #2176 “Down’s definition”
ㅁ There's a rule for all the stones: "gravity" is how it goes and so they will fill the holes.
Caveat: Poem #2170 “Planning ahead”
ㅁ The day is done. I go out. A remainder of daylight and the drizzle invoke doubt with regard to coming night. Night is not a time to walk: rather, it's when I'll try sleep, check my handcrafted door's lock, and rest. And maybe dream, deep.
Caveat: Poem #2140 “Dialogue between heaven and earth”
ㅁ The raindrop made assertions on gravity's exertions and all the clouds' dispursions.
Caveat: Poem #2139 “Down on the beach”
ㅁ I went to watch by the sea, by the lumpy, bumpy sea, the surging, unsleeping sea.
Caveat: Poem #2138 “Naturalist poem”
ㅁ In the light of the morning I can see that it's raining and I watch the wind spinning.
Caveat: Poem #2122 “Misperception”
ㅁ Late at night there was a glow The sky was white, I thought: snow; it was just some fog, so... no.
Caveat: Poem #2121 “The sun is heavy”
ㅁ It is good the drizzle's back: under the sun's glaring track you feel the cooling cloud's lack.
Caveat: Poem #2119 “Apotheosis”
ㅁ I paused to look at a tree. The gravel road smiled at me. The potholes will set you free.
Caveat: Poem #2096 “Find what?”
ㅁ If you can find it, in fact, then you will know how to act, to compensate what you lacked.
Caveat: Poem #2093 “Instant day”
ㅁ Each morning leaps into place through a kind of dreamy space and a rigid, stony grace.
Caveat: Poem #2092 “Hope”
ㅁ The garden lay, ungrowing (damp, brown earth); it was a dearth of sprouting and a surfeit of waiting.
Caveat: Poem #2068 “The great southeast Alaskan drought of last Wednesday, from 1 to 4 PM”
ㅁ The drought lasted for three hours but at last came rain showers to water wilting flowers
Caveat: Poem #2054 “Awkward”
ㅁ I was a bug, crawling there, when, whoosh, I had a scare: water washed me down the stair.
Caveat: Poem #2016 “Universality”
ㅁ the weirdness of the banal extends even past nightfall to occupy a dreamt thrall
Caveat: Poem #2015 “Bad Code”
ㅁ My own software has some bugs my brain seems to be on drugs though it's just neurons like slugs
Caveat: Poem #2014 “Here in the rainforest”
ㅁ the rain and then more rain came not even the clouds bore blame instead everything stayed same
Caveat: Poem #2013 “Melting”
ㅁ I shovel paths through the slush. The rain on trees breaks the hush. Some snow slides down in a rush.
Caveat: Poem #2008 “The procedure”
ㅁ walk along behind the dog among the trees that grasp fog then record it for the blog
Caveat: Poem #2007 “In the lee of the mountain”
ㅁ The rain can bring windy days, but from the southwest. It stays calm right here where our house lays.
Caveat: Poem #1991 “Without striations”
ㅁ my mind was a flat expanse where only a few ghosts dance meditations left to chance
Caveat: Poem #1985 “Awaiting a program to run”
ㅁ The morning is not here yet. I cast about, thoughts a net, adrift, opinions unset.
Caveat: Poem #1969 “Bane”
ㅁ No, I'd rather it not rain. Snow is fine, with the moonshine. With the rain ice on the road is my bane.
Caveat: Poem #1956 “My corporeal hydrology”
ㅁ My body is full of blood. It races around, courses like a flood, rests at the edges like mud.
Caveat: Poem #1955 “So it wasn’t that bad”
ㅁ I drove on the icy road, going slow the potholes, though, were all snowed, the clouds glowed.
Caveat: Poem #1946 “Tag-teamed”
ㅁ Some snow covered the driveway, but then rain overtook it again, and all day snow and rain, switching, at play.