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Washington Poetic Routes

Posted on November 2, 2019 by othermindpress

As a part of her tenure as Washington State Poet Laureate, Claudia Castro Luna has created Washington Poetic Routes, “a digital poetry-mapping project that explores Washington’s rich geographical terrain, both in terms of landscape and in terms of the human … Continue reading →

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May 8*

Posted on May 8, 2014 by othermindpress

looks like this world will be inherited by slugs and dandelions dogfish and starlings nettle, blackberry scotch broom and the other restless results of our mindlessness. *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island. … 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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May 20*

Posted on May 20, 2013 by othermindpress

big slug slimes up, across the kitchen glass door it must feel like walking on water or floating away, suspended in light *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island. . . . . … 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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August 21*

Posted on August 21, 2011 by othermindpress

gleaners: the gulls, the dogfish coyotes and coons thistle and nettle scotchbroom, slugs poets and potters surely the last to go *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island.

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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