got tagged by a yellowjacket while looking for books in the barn… didn’t know yellowjackets like old paperbacks so much…
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yeah, i know, i should be outside roasting some dead animal on a grill, rather than obsessing over details about the poetry workshop…
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feel like i’ve been washing dishes all morning…
“Go to the pine to learn of the pine,” Basho
“A haiku is far more than a concrete image of something ‘out there.’ It is very much about the cognitive awareness ‘in here.’” (via Roadrunner Journal)1
NOTES:
1) William M. Ramsey, “How One Writes in the Haiku Moment: Mythos vs. Logos,” May, 2009, Roadrunner Haiku Journal, Issue IX:2, accessed May 23, 2009, https://thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/items/show/1301
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only lost 4 plants from the cold weather earlier this week…
// i woke up from a dream in which coleman barks & i read sufi poetry in translation together…
yes… i my new, cheap coffee press… & other morning accouterments…
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every morning, around 8 or so, a raccoon visits…
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1045 feet off the edge of world…
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signing off… gonna put some sand in my books & water in ma’boots…
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after a 2 mi walk through a grey & windy morning weather… the sun is out…
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wifi + google maps = location of dunkin doughnuts (& other more notable locales)…
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triple a maps are good & google maps can suck it… best directions: follow the road signs…
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love the cold coastal waters of new england… reminds me of my norwegian roots… expect i’m not in new england & i’m not norwegian…
// & now, a hafiz moment… ‘ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.’
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I’m leading a poetry workshop at the Flood Gallery Fine Art Center titled: Write and Do Not Waste Time… email me if your interested…
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total of 150+ seedlings planted in the garden patches…
The north patch
the north patch : containing corn, peas, pumpkin, tomatoes, cucumber, sugar peas, cantaloupe, zucchini & winter squash…
the south patch : containing cherry tomatoes, peppers (bell, jalapeno, cayenne & bannana), cabbage & spinach…
A poem is not poetry. A designed artifact is not design.
// the plants are all snug in their beds (all plants from organic seed & some are organic heirloom seeds)… the rain is coming down…
Field notes
// returned books to the library. ran an errand. back in time for supper. back to gardening… before it starts to rain…
// the south garden has been completed… only thing left to plant are some cantaloupe, pea & some left over pepper & tomato plants…
// planting spinach, cabbage, pepper & tomato plants…
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