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Yume
夢の庵 I The still drops from the water cake Understated sweetness Cool Inviolate Heart beat slows To a restrained take on the universe And all within it Herded Harnessed Bit and bridled Steered Separated: Milk from curdle A slow process This is no whirl No dervish. This is time slowed down to a pin prick […]
MoreNeal Cassady Collected Letters 1944-1967..the introduction
I started at Carolyn Cassady’s introduction and read: He is known to have hit women, but I’m sure they asked for it, and that it was a sexual turn-on, as some have confessed to me. Here I am, bubbling over with barely contained fury. Hitting someone is never a sexual turn on, come on guys […]
MoreTanka – Who’s the monster now?
Cool dappled hollow, river runs beside it, ancient water-monster, bathes in a spot of brightness frozen in fear of feet, I wipe the guts of her children off my soles, monster runs to her hole.
MoreMountain Lion Wind
Mountain lion wind Been whistling round our bed And I don’t know if it was something I said Or that cold mountain lion wind And I am back to where the sage brush grows And the light don’t fit me right Oh that mountain lion wind. Mountain lion wind Been whistling round my head And […]
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