Monthly Archives: April 2012

April 28*

Posted on April 28, 2012 by othermindpress

latticed orbs of slug-sweet dandelions fuzzy puffs of translucent snowstorm on all our banks, borders our neighbors’ neat-green carries no such profusion and we dutifully clip snip and pull in this fruitless war *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem … Continue reading →

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April 20*

Posted on April 20, 2012 by othermindpress

i want to be out there on a wet slab of wood swirling in the tide mix the wind chop, feeling the pull of the moon the mountain-islands the farthest star of the last gleaming galaxy *Copyright 2010 by Luther … Continue reading →

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April 16*

Posted on April 16, 2012 by othermindpress

el niño the rest of the world suffers storms, drought, flood, famine. we get sunshine, a long string of blinding bright days and whisper warm nights *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island.

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April 13*

Posted on April 13, 2012 by othermindpress

i mow the scattered lawn third time this year inwardly complaining but two cuts behind my neat-cropped neighbor it should all be garden, flowers tangle of salal, oceanspray, kinnickinnick a wild and criminal campaign of weeds *Copyright 2010 by Luther … Continue reading →

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April 6*

Posted on April 6, 2012 by othermindpress

more garden: saladstuff, peas, spinach cold dirt under fingernails concatenations of age in my muscles, back thinking about robbers and thieves: deer, coons, pigeons, slugs. *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island.

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April 2*

Posted on April 2, 2012 by othermindpress

blue laid out flat clear to the horizon stippled and metallic reflected into the infinite eggshell of sky telling watery stories for millions of light years out there *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from … Continue reading →