Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

It has been more than a year now since I moved here to the uplands of Tug Hill Plateau. The things that go on ...

Afternoon bike ride, on a 'ku hunt - didn't see no 'ku - found a
gogyohka instead -

coming to an edge of woods
where everything opens
up to fields
crossing them low in the distance
a few crows
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5:24 p.m. 4/21/16

Leaves of Grass
was pretty near
a lifetime's work for Whitman
then he died
finally free of it
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8:51 a.m. 4/22/16

birds are flying
but it's not play
this time of year
these suckers are working
hard

a year already
wow
but we been through a lot
ain't we
keep on haiku hunting
mingo

WIREMAN wrote:a year already
wow
but we been through a lot
ain't we
keep on haiku hunting
mingo

Ain't we just? all the time going through it and going through it - 'ku hunting continues - didn't get out yesterday, beautiful day all sun no clouds, today like that too but chilled ya know - had to have a fire in the stove last night, looks like the same for tonight - you guys down there had any warmth to speak of yet? I'll get out this afternoon for a run -

ride as far as you can
weathers perfect here
waiting for the axe to fall
(humidity) the inevitable soup of it
Shakespeare .....Cervantes .......gone
400 years back
crazy coincidence of time
here's a poem by Gary bour Lew

Lew says
Lew knows
Gary Snyder hears

Lew Welch - I liked the man's poetry - i guess something inside the guy had to get out and take
everything with it - depression's a bitch

Lew was heavy
Gary Snyder
used to look for
him in a crowd
at poetry readings
most likely Lew was
carried off by the vultures
but there's always
the mystery of the
way he disappeared
and was never found.....

mingo I highly recommend this book by Ed sanders on kindle

Thx, Mark, I will check this out -

think u might enjoy.....I couldn't put it down.....tales of beatnik glory by him is pretty good too.

old man points
at the mountain
& the mountain moves

beginning of spring I began hearing the landlord say he was going to move the mountain of gravel behind the place here - be damned the other day if he didn't get his big trac-hoe fired up and begin to dismantle that huge ridge - that ridge was left during the retreat of the last continental ice sheet from these parts 10 to twelve thousand years ago but for three days straight an almost 83 year old Korean war vet has been in assault upon it sitting in the cab of a huge piece of machinery swinging that boom back & forth & round & round in a cloud of diesel exhaust happy as a clam ...

Beware the finger
Pointing at the mountain
Gravel be gone

Good story mingo.....man moves mountain moves man.....he was moved to move that mountain, where did that mountain go?

Thx Wireman -

Bullshit ! flat out unmitigated bullshit - site i been going to and enjoying for the past six months find out this afternoon is shut down as in forever - no warning no nothing - place had a good activity level lots of shit going on i had an active journal there used it just last night go for a bike ride this afternoon get back go to the site find a blank page with these words at the top "so-and-so is closed. may reappear as a magazine in the future.

Litkicks all over again!

Thoreau said it, "... every path but your own then is the path of fate ..."