I’ve got a poem in Elderly, a little magazine I love.

You can download Issue 21 here. Many thanks to editors Nicholas DeBoer and Jamie Townsend !

 

And the way the light is. This morning I’ve been with Joanne Kyger, and I’ve been staying here, in the second half of a poem dated December 1, 1996, from AGAIN: Poems 1989-2000.

Try to be vast now.         Remember this strand

of conscious thinking vibrating like a watery

jewel on the morning’s cobweb.             All show, plunk

it falls,   so temporal,    this attempt to cliché the moment.

As all falls silent.

Last Sunday, I read with Martha Rhodes, Martha Webster, and Marguerite Maria Rivas at Cedarmere, the former home of William Cullen Bryant. The Friends of Cedarmere have restored the home, transformed the grounds, and have brought poetry back to this beautiful place! It was an honor to be part of the first season of the reading series.