Tag Archives: Lummi Island

May 19

Posted on May 19, 2022 by othermindpress

around in the passagewe bait with last summer’s ling headsdrop the ringsdrift off. fifteen minutes or half a beerquick hoist, lurch overand spiny crabsscuttling everywhere females and smaller malesplucked overboardbig males in the bucketthey will die, be eaten and we will … Continue reading →

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Saturday reading & workshop

Posted on July 14, 2021 by othermindpress

You’re invited to join the Lummi Island Heritage Trust for an afternoon poetry reading and workshop with Luther Allen. Both events will be held outdoors at the Otto Preserve, 3560 Sunrise Road, Lummi Island. Bring a chair or blanket, your … Continue reading →

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2021

Posted on January 2, 2021 by othermindpress

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the view

Posted on March 23, 2020 by othermindpress

March 8 we and the world out there and the world in here the twittering sparrow the color of the sky the heft of the planet the uttering the weaving of words, dreams, agony, rapture this moment: the complete presented history … 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

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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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July 24*

Posted on July 24, 2016 by othermindpress

the vast of deep summer the lazy waft of heron rolling swells of dry flaxen field grass the sweet chill air of dawn/dusk leaves luxuriating under strong full sun and the horizon stretches beyond the edge of the earth and … Continue reading →

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June 28*

Posted on June 28, 2016 by othermindpress

hottest day of the year thus far lummi kids might have hit 80 splatter in water sticky, hot, been in town off the ferry dock i go to the beach to wade, to cool my soft winter feet prickled and … 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 →