Monthly Archives: December 2013

December 29*

i have had the luck and gift to sit deeply here exploring a maelstrom of beauty, root, and reality a geography of experience, consciousness and belief immersing in the entrancement of place. i am profoundly grateful. *Copyright 2010 by Luther … Continue reading

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December 25*

matia sucia patos the three islands to the west, the sunset view i’ve walked matia and sucia, circumpiscatated patos watched storm waves wreck in white blasts high against their fixed grit. they are rock, real, immutable. yet, looking through seven … Continue reading

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December 19*

after the storm i go to the beach           search for stones           which have never been seen before. ever. finger a few, maybe never to be touched again, ever. and remember           this sky           this earth           this instant has never been before … Continue reading

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December 12*

far out on open water wind of raw ungraspable power feeds on the vastness           slaps and spatters the waves                     into stinging frenzied spray *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island.

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December 5*

up early not yet a glimmer of dawn stars shot throughout the brilliant black sky —a rare sight here— holding firm and whirling in relativity— through sleep i have missed most of their dance and sunblue skies have masked the … Continue reading

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December 1*

colors build, masked by green green dissipates, exposing then drenched, leaching tannin into oozing earth leaving the empty grey veins of former leaves muted drained stalks water the color of cedar *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in … Continue reading

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