BTT #8.2: Dysphoria and Rain.

Anything I have written is percolating and fermenting.  This isn't actually writer's block, but nothing has been posted in a while.  Sooo.  how about Reruns?  This was posted in May 2017 and includes a poem from 2015 and 1992, so it stretches time a bit.  The marriage spoken of in the prose is ending, we …

BTT #67: Dispossession

Dispossession · Have we ever Been there Where the long and Careful winding Of the river Lifts and carries Our craft or cares Or conscience to a Landing never seen Or heard of In the quiet Vespers of either Prophecies or dreams? Do we ever leap Above the current Or just even gently Press against …

BTT #53: No One Is Coming.

Hello everyone.  I was inspired by Ken's entry of a poetic translation a few months ago, and have been working on translating a poem by Rainer Brambach that I have always loved.  Brambach lived in Basel and is a noted Swiss poet, but I have never found this poem in English.  I enjoyed reviewing this process with …

BTT #39: An Answer to the Rain

An Answer to the Rain · In bed you hear The pounding of the Rain on roof and four Walls around you as the seas Turn out upon themselves the air Is humbled by the waters to depths Of quietude wrapped around your breathing. · And yet in all Of this you gave no Regard …

BTT# 8.2.5 Rain in the Door

Rain in the Door · Gentle remembrances Wash the whited frame. I know this place, Where young lovers meet, And old friends Sit quietly outside the gate. Somewhere behind me, Perhaps on the mantle, Or the wall, A stone face keeps vigilance. Meting out each embrace, Striking in the rise and fall. · -Lona Gynt …

BTT #8 Dysphoria and Rain

"A Poem is a Naked Person" is the title of the sometime-acclaimed documentary film by Les Blank about musician Leon Russell.  I have not yet seen the film, but the title of it has been an evocative touchstone for me for some years.  It suggests that a poem should just sit there unadorned by ornamentation …