Tag Archives: daily poems

The View from Lummi Island

Posted on January 7, 2022 by othermindpress

January 3 this islandsmoothed and settledhumped and wild thrown just offthe exploded heartof the san juans   January 4 to the west: grey layers and violet linessmeared fractals and escher covenantsholding/creating          sweeping awaystalwart islands and thin-skinned watersspasmodic winds andskittish, fragile beliefs. … Continue reading →

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August 5

Posted on August 13, 2017 by othermindpress

          softly wrinkled oyster clouds           smelling of slow and tender sex serene corrugated shirr           against grey rose void                     suspending planets                                                   like pearls

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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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clouds everywhere

Posted on October 25, 2015 by othermindpress

The following poem was published in the Amaterra journal, in the late eighties when I was still in the Southwest.  The journal is gone, but the very worthy organization is still active (http://amaterra.org/). clouds everywhere are the same: all different. … Continue reading →

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rained

Posted on March 21, 2015 by othermindpress

rained new-boiled clouds wash clean cold nose-stinging wet trickles road all greasy mud old boards turn dark brown knots curl black and dead pith crumbs pines stab, glistening my old hat worn grey with turkey beard and two holes smells … 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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December 17*

Posted on December 17, 2014 by othermindpress

the first snow roads are all ice vehicles splayed everywhere we sit safely on the ferry mark the purser says: no problem with traction out here *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island. … Continue reading →

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December 10*

Posted on December 10, 2014 by othermindpress

the moon in its journey rises into ice aura then is swallowed into predawn swirl of mist, cloud pulse, tide work *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island. . . . . . … Continue reading →

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