Friends ~ William Stafford How far friends are! They forget you, most days. They have to, I know; but still, it’s lonely just being far and a friend. I put my hand out—this chair, this table— So near: touch, that’s how to live. Call up a friend? All right, but the phone itself is what […]
And With March a Decade in Bolinas ~ Joanne Kyger Just sitting around smoking, drinking, and telling stories, the news, making plans, analyzing, approaching the cessation of personality, the single personality understands its demise. Experience of the simultaneity of all human beings on this planet, alive when you are alive. This seemingly inexhaustible sophistication of […]
Winter: Tonight: Sunset ~ David Budbill Tonight at sunset walking on the snowy road, my shoes crunching on the frozen gravel, first through the woods, then out into the open fields past a couple of trailers and some pickup trucks, I stop and look at the sky. Suddenly: orange, red, pink, blue, green, purple, yellow, […]
The Lovers ~ Timothy Liu I was always afraid of the next card the psychic would turn over for us— Forgive me for not knowing how we were every card in the deck.
The subject of Farbauti came up on Tumblr in this post, and, well, I Have Thoughts. Pull up a chair, choose a beverage, and let’s chat about Farbauti. We know very little about him from the myths, as the few mentions are both fragmentary and filtered through the lens of the Christian scholars who wrote […]
