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January 23*

mind:           popsnap of round cobble on beach           slip on salt-smeared algal bedrock           two ducks bob through wind-wrecked waves           two tugs blow spray into the far heavens nothing more *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from … Continue reading

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January 12*

black water     cold and flat like a vast, honed stone           white snow           crazed skeltering flakes           as big as sparrows           blanket and suffocate           the shrunken cosmos           of this day’s dusk feeding the darkness. nothing more, nothing less. *Copyright 2010 by Luther … Continue reading

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January 4*

to the west: grey layers and violet lines smeared fractals and escher covenants holding/creating     sweeping away stalwart islands and thin-skinned waters spasmodic winds and skittish, fragile beliefs. *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi … Continue reading

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January 10*

late night wait at ferry landing mainland side heron hunts shallows in eerie pier lights believing every night is full moon *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island. —– great blue heron photo … Continue reading

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January 2*

yeah, and it’s a good thing we met last night. now: cold wind-driven rain, a pelting darkness find a blanket, a book. no one is talking. sleep, not fire draws us, holds us in this long night of winter *Copyright … Continue reading

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