Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Good poem. I'm used to the urban jungle but nature, not just human nature, has a bloody claw. Did you ever read "Pilgrim At Tinker's Creek"? That's one of my favorite books.

This is far, far from being about absolutely nothing. Problem is the people who should read it and reflect on it won't ever read it.

Are there habitable lands free of people where one can go hear a stream or a hawk or the wind caressing leaves? Are there too many of us, too loud with our voices, our machines? Have we thrown the night's quiet into the attic, while pounding the electric-lit air into a flat consciousness where we da...

Good poem---3 lines can pack an emotional punch----some embarrassment but some happiness too---the little things in life can go a long way to make the day enjoyable----3 line poems like this definitely do.

I haven't read any of your writing for awhile---my fault. This is so good---it reminds me of all I have been missing. Excellent poem.

saw, I like the poem quite a bit. I like Ron Price's comments & quoting of Virginia Woolf too.

I have nothing to add but admiration & that I want to add.

I just want to praise the great photos in the banners----I have no opinion about the changing but hopefully the photos recur and are not up just once. But love them.

The drawback of the HandyDanpro is that you can never put your chin in your hand again---it would activate something----God knows what.


But that invention would be with you at all times.

The opening lines are so strong that they launch the reader through this (comparatively) long poem.

there you stand in the spotlight of my eye you perform just breathing I think what beauty but the time has passed and the social security cards have been issued the licenses typed our lives just speaking acquaintanceships the door left open like a closed gate the dog gone the cat slipped in and the ...

Scott, I'll see what I can do. I'll think about it & see what I should do----just modify what is there or scrap that stanza entirely & put something different.

Dan

This is a memoir in a way. You described the experience and brought it alive for me. This is like a post-Cannery Row portrait of Monterey. Isn't there an army or marine base close by just north of Monterey?

Anyway, you have captured a time & a place.

There is experienced wisdom and determination in this poem. What you say is true.

Interesting explication of the test by Walt. However, a cursing man of God is not to be admired. Too much violence in the primitive days. Establishes too much precedent for these supposedly enlightened times. I think this is the point of the poem: and forty-two were mauled before they fled, though a...

ACROSS THE RIVER Beauty in that engineering: Pipes, lights, acrid smoke: An insect’s body, But there is intelligent design. I’d love to raft Through the marshy brine, Catch mosquitoes, Dragonflies, Arrange beige reeds in a digital image. No, I wouldn’t drink the water, Become a sex-crazed zombie Att...