Kitchen Ink
The first rules of poetry
The first rule is don’t mention “ear” and Van Gogh in the same stanza
more ...Posted 4 September 2008, 13:13
Shoreline Poetry News
Subscribe to and announce poetry events on the Connecticut Shoreline approximately between New Haven and Old Saybrook and extending up to Middletown.
more ...Posted 21 July 2008, 21:29
Here's looking at looking
In the back of the mirror a curtain
drops into place and becomes still.
Posted 8 July 2008, 00:23
Tanka for two voices
What expectation
of my difficult girlfriends
did I feel and flee?
Posted 5 July 2008, 19:26
Driving rain
I must be a fool
driving in rain so heavy
it’s like a car wash.
Posted 17 June 2008, 09:05
Hammonasset River
The great blue heron
lumbers up onto the air.
Posted 17 June 2008, 09:00
Shadow of the gods
Fiddler crabs scatter
across marshy mud that quakes
beneath our footsteps.
Posted 16 June 2008, 15:07
Before the stars
The poem must resist the intelligence
Almost successfully
—Wallace Stevens
Beat a couple of stars
and chop your choice of subatomic particles:
photons, neutrinos, electrons,
and quarks are all good.
Posted 17 April 2008, 22:39
From a window seat approaching Denver
At the bottom of the sky
irrigation systems, roads,
and fencelines divide the plains
with simple squares. And circles,
Posted 20 March 2008, 21:58
Spherical
Imagine the poem’s natural habitat is the mind; there it is free to run wild. There, the poem can be comprehended entirely: front and back, beginning to end, center and circumference.
more ...Posted 5 March 2008, 23:36