… I am singular and we are plural. I see us walking on the busy street and waiting for the bus. Each day I meet him, Walt Whitman, whose kind face I see all over the place. Or I am in his brain because I … Read More →
Monthly Archives: May 2012
Sonnet 36: I see how strong a fragile thing can be
… I see how strong a fragile thing can be. Look! A butterfly comes spreading its wings over its own reflection fluttering out in the middle of a pond so deep and close you’d think no insect strength could last the distance to reach land, … Read More →
If I Told Him: A Complete Portrait of Picasso
I wanted to make a video poem out of the Caedmon recording of Gertrude Stein reciting If I Told Him. In late May, shortly before it closed, I saw the Stein show at the Met and filmed some of it. You weren’t supposed to film … Read More →
Sonnet 24: The sun is bright reflected on water
24 The sun is bright reflected on water Shimmering it to pieces. With too much Light I’m blind. They say when we see God up Close we die. I’m pretty sure I’ve never Looked on God up close but every day Along the way see … Read More →
Acquainted with the Night
Acquainted with the Night is a good poem to show English language learners the present perfect, that period of time in the past that comes right up to the present but remains unspecified: “I’ve walked a mile.” “But when?” The simple past comes to an … Read More →
Five Sonnets
I focused on these sonnets, part of Sonnets 1 – 60, this late winter and spring prior to a reading I was going to do in Philly and managed to change most of the things that bothered me about them. It’s nice to have a … Read More →