Category Archives: view from lummi island

May 19

Posted on May 19, 2022 by othermindpress

around in the passagewe bait with last summer’s ling headsdrop the ringsdrift off. fifteen minutes       or half a beerquick hoist, lurch overand spiny crabsscuttling everywhere females and smaller malesplucked overboardbig males in the bucketthey will die, be eaten and we will … Continue reading →

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Saturday reading & workshop

Posted on July 14, 2021 by othermindpress

You’re invited to join the Lummi Island Heritage Trust for an afternoon poetry reading and workshop with Luther Allen. Both events will be held outdoors at the Otto Preserve, 3560 Sunrise Road, Lummi Island. Bring a chair or blanket, your … Continue reading →

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April 11*

Posted on April 11, 2017 by othermindpress

frog croaking creates a thousand seams in the nightblack stillness fills the voids with lunatic cries, incessant lust *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island.

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December 24*

Posted on December 24, 2016 by othermindpress

some days it is                dull grey      leaden purple      ashen umber murky struggled light daubed drab cold and deathly wet to touch some days it is                silver      platinum      lilac/violet etched in fine thin light, shimmering bleeding the exact perfect nature of winter *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. … Continue reading →

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June 28*

Posted on June 28, 2016 by othermindpress

hottest day of the year                          thus far lummi kids might have hit 80                                  splatter in water sticky, hot, been in town                      off the ferry dock i go to the beach to wade, to cool my soft winter feet prickled and … Continue reading →

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thanksgiving

Posted on November 26, 2015 by othermindpress

thanksgiving by Luther Allen fourteen billion years ago something happened out of nothing or perhaps out of something we may never find out but from that instant physics threw a wild party which for all we know may never end … Continue reading →

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poetry and peace

Posted on February 6, 2015 by othermindpress

Luther Allen will be among the awardees on Saturday, February 28, 2015, when World Peace Poets honors poets and peacemakers from both sides of the border at a reading and awards ceremony. The celebration, at the Mount Baker Theatre in … Continue reading →

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January 16*

Posted on January 16, 2015 by othermindpress

the cats — hopefully just darwin’s soldiers — neatly place mouse and mole cadavers stiff carcasses of birds on the steps as if gifts *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island. . . … Continue reading →

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January 6*

Posted on January 6, 2015 by othermindpress

to the east: all intent governed, overwhelmed by pale ephemeral apparition of mount baker the center of the earth, revealed still restless the sacred fear. *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island. . … Continue reading →

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January 1*

Posted on January 1, 2015 by othermindpress

last night: bonfire on the beach friends in firelight oysters, posole, red wine . . . commingling with           cloud-muted stars           the damp wind of this season           and the slap and shush of the water wrapping us around the entire world … Continue reading →

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