Monthly Archives: May 2014

May 29*

Posted on May 29, 2014 by othermindpress

what blooms: the painful yellow of scotch broom weighted to the ground the delicate robust white of cow parsnip weighted to the sky *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island. —– cow parsnip … Continue reading →

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May 22*

Posted on May 22, 2014 by othermindpress

waves whip and slather the grasses quiver gulls soar, then are swept away but where is the wind? *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island.

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May 19*

Posted on May 19, 2014 by othermindpress

around in the passage we bait with last summer’s ling heads drop the rings drift off. 15 minutes           or half a beer quick hoist, lurch over and spiny crabs scuttling everywhere females and smaller males plucked overboard big males in … Continue reading →

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May 16*

Posted on May 16, 2014 by othermindpress

puddles on pavement reflecting perfect tree and sky earthworm stretches across the wet road, dodging traffic (!) lummi mt shrouded in ominous cloud opaque showers blur parts of outer islands air tastes alive, tart just like barely ripe salmonberry *Copyright … Continue reading →

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May 11*

Posted on May 11, 2014 by othermindpress

marking time through a windless calm a steady swell kerfs neatly into the beach gravel nothing out there to generate such: perhaps           ghost ships, far away, tracing endless wakes           the pulse of gravity           or the earth,                     tossing in its sleep … Continue reading →

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May 8*

Posted on May 8, 2014 by othermindpress

looks like this world will be inherited by slugs and dandelions dogfish and starlings nettle, blackberry scotch broom and the other restless results of our mindlessness. *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island. … Continue reading →

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May 4*

Posted on May 4, 2014 by othermindpress

things hang, suspended                float instead of move in milky emulsion far out a wandering rip:                twirling and idling through a viscous skin of sea *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island.

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