Tag Archives: birds

right hand pointing

Posted on July 1, 2020 by othermindpress

Thanks to right hand pointing for including my poem in Issue 139, the sky is a black canvas.

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October 20*

Posted on October 20, 2014 by othermindpress

solitary flirting gust of wind etches nest of black prickles on the water directly above a pastiche of dark/light birds                          wavers, feigns, darts, swirls twining, dancing the nexus of one mind *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in … Continue reading →

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September 20*

Posted on September 20, 2014 by othermindpress

birds: creatures that fly (rats with wings)          names          get stuck, mired          in details, commonness birds: beings of moving air unfurled resplendent grace and flight. . .      marvelous flight! *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in … Continue reading →

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October 24*

Posted on October 24, 2013 by othermindpress

hundreds of bobbing gulls collected, gathered gabbling                on the barely undulant sea                in perhaps the last of open sun                for months raucous, impudent in the evanescent stillness *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi … Continue reading →

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September 26*

Posted on September 26, 2012 by othermindpress

chirp and trill of birds merges into my body, cells changing, attuning healing from each note *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island.

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March 21*

Posted on March 21, 2012 by othermindpress

cat and i sit on lawn rocks “glacial erratics” watching last light leave robin hurtles toward us cat springs four feet into air claws deep into robin’s past path— just a tad late. if i had half that quickness half … Continue reading →

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September 18*

Posted on September 18, 2011 by othermindpress

loons everywhere scribbling the signature of fall on the flat flat water *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island. —– Common Loon photo Copyright © 2010, Alan D. Wilson

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September 10*

Posted on September 10, 2011 by othermindpress

last light waves wet sand in silver serrated scallops way out a strange greyghost bird, a shadow, wends and wafts away gone, forever unknown *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island. —– wet … Continue reading →

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July 5*

Posted on July 5, 2011 by othermindpress

sun down in the darkness of firs in the quiet of their wracked deadfall limbs           the mangled power, holding the now dim dual blossoms of twinflower a few early and tart thimbleberries wiped into mouth birds settle their chatter into … Continue reading →

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May 13*

Posted on May 13, 2011 by othermindpress

     under, in the ground:                     turgid roots and worming worms                     swimming and swirling                     in the slow damp current                     of the depthless earth      and above, exposed:                     the tidal creep of blackberry                     the surf of thimbleberry blossoms                     the sharp spray of scotch broom … Continue reading →

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