Current Key Note
August 2006
- 08.30.2006
Very brief excerpt from Spears of God
July 2006
- 07/29/2006
A Couple of Poems
June 2006
- 06/11/2006
Gravitude in Appalangeles
- 06/07/2006
Poems: (Multiple)
May 2006
- 05/11/2006
The Importance of Being Uncertain
April 2006
- 04/10/2006
Poem: Fragments of a Stained-Glass Meteorite
March 2006
- 03/19/2006
Let in Future Times
- 03/05/2006
No Place Like Home — for Now
February 2006
- 02/04/2006
Fundamental Problems
January 2006
- 01/30/2006
The New Inquisition
- 01/25/2006
The Future Through the Past
‘Key’ Notes
POEMS: 060706
June 7, 2006
by Howard Hendrix
From A Height High Enough
cities seen from space
embers by night, ash by day
fortune’s wheel of fire
The Quaker Terrorist
though bent space is the sun’s shadow,
out of space too bent no light can go --
from the dark, then, I call out in hopes
noises in a dream can wake the sleepers
Long-Awaited Spring
bird feeder’s empty
firewood is all burned up
springtime -- just in time
Framing the Shot
scaled brown trunk of tall straight pine
leads the eye upward
toward green-needled profusion
past a white quarter moon
three-quarters up the tufted pole
west of it
in a westering sky
above tree and moon two black buzzards
circle high and east in dying blue sunlight
my bark-beetle eyes try to tunnel
deeper, toward the heartwood
a flush of clotting sweetness
pushes me back to the surface of things --
world and tree defending their mysteries
the only way they know
Domesticity
dog yelps at yanked chain
rubs mistress’s nylon flank
married man at home
Allure
half moon plies twilight heavens
slow bright stately bat
catching moth poets
Warning
Make no path by sun
Not to be traveled by moon
Nor in soul’s eclipse
Spears of God
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