Poetics – Page 59 – Grow Mercy

This July Afternoon – Wendy Morton

Posted on July 25, 2010 by stephen t berg / 2 Comments

I notice a robin in the garden with a gooseberry in its beak and run to the house for the chipped blue colander that I’ve had for 30 years. It serves me ...

Poetics

Shambles

Posted on July 13, 2010 by stephen t berg / 2 Comments

The Snoot boots you wore until the leather harness around the heels wore thin as paper, the ones you broke in by striding, the ones you wore to test tires, kick...

Poetics

God’s leafy-love

Posted on July 2, 2010 by stephen t berg / 2 Comments

On a day like today, Sitting along last night’s campfire, Still warm, Life looks eternal. The deep summer green, The red-breasted nuthatch, The ebullient squirr...

Freedom/Poetics

The walk of the ungoverned

Posted on June 28, 2010 by stephen t berg / 0 Comment

The young blond woman is crowding the plodding man like a swollen prostrate. Impatience slung over her shoulders, cardboard tray in hand, she is hurrying him th...