Tag Archives: sea

December 27*

Posted on December 27, 2014 by othermindpress

seduction by water. i had to know this, to live by the sea.     it is not one thing. my veins arise in the high country, the bleeding snowbanks stone cold purity, the clarity of stars within a trickle … Continue reading →

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May 11*

Posted on May 11, 2014 by othermindpress

marking time through a windless calm a steady swell kerfs neatly into the beach gravel nothing out there to generate such: perhaps           ghost ships, far away, tracing endless wakes           the pulse of gravity           or the earth,                     tossing in its sleep … Continue reading →

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May 4*

Posted on May 4, 2014 by othermindpress

things hang, suspended                float instead of move in milky emulsion far out a wandering rip:                twirling and idling through a viscous skin of sea *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island.

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October 24*

Posted on October 24, 2013 by othermindpress

hundreds of bobbing gulls collected, gathered gabbling                on the barely undulant sea                in perhaps the last of open sun                for months raucous, impudent in the evanescent stillness *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi … Continue reading →

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July 31*

Posted on July 31, 2013 by othermindpress

blustery blood sun           earth turning fast away           ragged tops of swept waves           dusting off           into           the churn and furl of all                     caravans of carved canoes                     plying spanish galleons                     lumbering russian fur-seekers                     gillnetters, purse seiners                                                                       kayaks, sailboats                               and the pilgrim from … Continue reading →

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April 19*

Posted on April 19, 2013 by othermindpress

the water tonight is a being a spirit casting a spell pulling from me a heartened light of excitement, fear *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island.

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April 10*

Posted on April 10, 2013 by othermindpress

the junk barges going north with a season of supplies:           trailers, boats, backhoes           mystery containers           stacked askew, perched           seemingly ready to topple plow through our little sea practicing for the big stuff. it is curious. they never come back. *Copyright … Continue reading →

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January 23*

Posted on January 23, 2013 by othermindpress

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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December 18*

Posted on December 18, 2012 by othermindpress

why there are no clams: strong northwest wind straight down the strait four foot swells crossing a high tide curl savagely into the beach churning and grinding rock and sand and logs in roar of power. trading energy                from fire … Continue reading →

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December 14*

Posted on December 14, 2012 by othermindpress

wavering and unwavering merciless wind screams through the night we begin to think, to dream it’s more than just thermodynamics *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island.

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