Monthly Archives: November 2012

November 29*

Posted on November 29, 2012 by othermindpress

another dark dawn pine branches swish and slap the house rain slams and slathers the windows long powerful rollers pound the beach matia and sucia gone into fog the nebulous enigmatic horizon now just a bleary wetness of grey advancing … Continue reading →

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November 25*

Posted on November 25, 2012 by othermindpress

wave moves to shore gravity-sucked backwash undercuts crest topples in endless sliding curl clean, perfect neat. *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island. . . . . . photo by C Kelly Nowicki

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Thanksgiving poem

Posted on November 21, 2012 by othermindpress

14 billion years ago something happened. out of nothing. or perhaps out of something. we may never know. but from that instant physics threw a wild party which for all we know may never end. somewhere along the line this … Continue reading →

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November 20*

Posted on November 20, 2012 by othermindpress

we kick the scatter of frosted leaves, scrumbling and hear within the deep seasonal delight of change. eyes taste the color deep of umber, burnt umber, bronzed umber elemental earth the color of soil that gravels our soul rimed in … Continue reading →

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November 16*

Posted on November 16, 2012 by othermindpress

dormant leaves loosen and alight, returning to soil and root stems and branches become brittle, stark sap drains and coils in the cold roots and like a seed i enfold, harden at the edges, go in to the center nurturing, … Continue reading →

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November 12*

Posted on November 12, 2012 by othermindpress

the way the water looks. it was the same for the cannery workers in the twenties the same for crews of vancouver’s ships the same for the paddlers of the long war canoes bent on material goods and slaves the … Continue reading →

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November 9*

Posted on November 9, 2012 by othermindpress

remembering now this season the world is mostly dark howling black nights and many days only a thin lens of grey light to the south: muted water dark knots of land lowering clouds, layer upon layer wild unwavering winds pressing … Continue reading →

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November 5*

Posted on November 5, 2012 by othermindpress

hale’s passage drifting but determined fog filtering and prisming the late morning sun into auras and shafts and crystal spectre like a slowly moving storm of white light revealing the splendor of the ordinary obscuring what we once knew and … Continue reading →

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