Tag Archives: garden

March 20*

Posted on March 20, 2014 by othermindpress

*Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island.

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October 7*

Posted on October 7, 2013 by othermindpress

*Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island.

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June 23*

Posted on June 23, 2013 by othermindpress

some part of my body some mysterious alchemic                current of physiology binding strength, protection comes from her many months ago pricking cold soil with smooth pearly-hard cloves waiting, knowing through winter watching the pale curl of sprouts snipping out the … Continue reading →

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May 30*

Posted on May 30, 2013 by othermindpress

in the sweet dawn smell I stretch on rubber gloves pour half a beer into a pail and wander the terraces of the lawn/garden plopping slimy slugs into a drunken death, freeing their creeping souls to an assuredly higher reincarnation … Continue reading →

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February 22*

Posted on February 22, 2013 by othermindpress

tiny and ethereal new leaves fresh from our unseeable womb-spirit pure, vibrant green vivid as blood *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island.

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October 5*

Posted on October 5, 2012 by othermindpress

the garden a tumult of now-sagging overgrowth gone wild like always (i am a planter, not a maintainer) deer and raccoons trample the corn i salvage half-ears, nibbled away dig potatoes, pluck beets preen the bolted chard pledging, like always, … Continue reading →

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April 13*

Posted on April 13, 2012 by othermindpress

i mow the scattered lawn third time this year inwardly complaining but two cuts behind my neat-cropped neighbor it should all be garden, flowers tangle of salal, oceanspray, kinnickinnick a wild and criminal campaign of weeds *Copyright 2010 by Luther … Continue reading →

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April 6*

Posted on April 6, 2012 by othermindpress

more garden: saladstuff, peas, spinach cold dirt under fingernails concatenations of age in my muscles, back thinking about robbers and thieves: deer, coons, pigeons, slugs. *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island.

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March 1*

Posted on March 1, 2012 by othermindpress

pitchfork goat manure/barn straw into truck cart up to garden spread, fluff bless the ground in the rain, of course. *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island. —– photo

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May 26*

Posted on May 26, 2011 by othermindpress

cold and dripping grey craig gathers clams the garden arrests the slugs manifest,           oozing everywhere *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island. —– Swirls of Grey photo © Sophia E. Davies

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