Archive for December, 2011

snow or no snow, a haiku by Donna Fleischer

snow or no snow
it’s cold outside
the stars twinkle so

Donna Fleischer
December 31, 2011

Truck: IN MEMORIAM: Carol Novack 1948 – 2011

Destination by Carol Novak for Jean Detheux

CAROL NOVACK – In Memoriam 1948 – 2011 / Mad Hatters’ Review Blog

Rain drop –, a poem by Cid Corman

Rain drop –
Giotto – in
water

halo in
halo
beginning

ending
extending
return.

Cid Corman

He really got Giotto, Cid did. Thanks, Nancy Davenport. ~ DF

ROBERT REICH: Get Ready For A Obama-Clinton Presidential Ticket

ROBERT REICH: Get Ready For A Obama-Clinton Presidential Ticket.

A Saturday Woman Translator: Sheema Kalbasi / poethead

With You by Mehri Rahmani

Your tender revolt
Contained by the illicit apple
Pounds in red
And your eye’s shattered diamond
A woman in seclusion
Revolves into a star
With you
On the surface of water
I am thirsty
Place the skies in your eyes
Blaze out the star
So that I can see you
The sea is peaceful
Silent…

from : The Seven Valleys of Love, trans Sheema Kalbasi Poet ,
A Bilingual Anthology Of Women Poets from Middle Ages Persia to Present

A Saturday Woman Translator: Sheema Kalbasi. « poethead.

38th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Benefit Reading at St Mark’s / The Poetry Project

Greg Fuchs photograph

 38th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Benefit Reading

Exhibition of Work by Antonio López / Bilbao Fine Arts Museum

Ventana de noche 1971 – 1980

 Antonio López Exhibition

An Interview with Antonio López

Love as saying says, a tanka by Yakamochi / translation by Cid Corman

Love as saying says

is a most excellent name

in terms of saying

what otherwise won’t be grasped –

my body now become it.

Yakamochi

May the newest new, a tanka by Yakamochi (718 – 785) / translated by Cid Corman

May the newest new

year of the beginning of

the spring just begun

today like the falling snow

the more heap up our blessings.

Yakamochi

It helps to know that the Japanese until recently followed the lunar calendar; therefore the first day of the new year was also the first day of spring as snow slid into snow drops. ~ df

The Party Line – December 30, 2011: The Party Line, Nuclear Style | capitoilette

The Party Line – December 30, 2011: The Party Line, Nuclear Style | capitoilette.