Tag Archives: December

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 26*

minus tide night walking on fingers of chuckanut sandstone at water’s edge what the mind creates what i choose to think and feel: softly curved fleshforms the boulders chunks of void pits of black holes surrounded by glimmering dazzle it … Continue reading

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December 21*

thick white cloud bank sits all day just behind sucia then late afternoon dense snow shroud cascades down orcas lone eagle huddles on pt migley snag watching *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi … Continue reading

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December 16*

the next morning it has passed and we are held in stillness walking to the point, the road           littered with the soft lovely tips of fir           bright dismembered branches           on the wet black pavement we understand to breathe deeply relieved … Continue reading

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December 11*

the hard cold shrunken salal flaccid ferns and brittle stems everything withdrawn, muted or crystallized, splintered into a lifeless lattice a snort of fogged breath and the doe warm under her exact hair leaps off *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. … Continue reading

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December 8*

kept in the womb of crepuscular winter light held in dim graygreen close, in tight enfolding heart, mind in warmth of solitude *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island. Reminder: Luther Allen reads … Continue reading

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December 4*

fallen and crashed leaves              hulls of worn-out machines              scraping, etching the rock in minute ways              freeing more hard molecules              to seep into soil              to fuel new leaves, more etch, new poems *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in … Continue reading

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What to do on December 10…

Mark your calendar for Saturday, December 10, 2011, 7-9pm, for SpeakEasy 5, an evening of poetry featuring Luther Allen, Jennifer Bullis, Elizabeth J. Colen, Paul Piper and Sheila Sondik. There will be several sets, with each poet reading 4 to … Continue reading

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