Tag Archives: winter

Plum Tree Tavern

Posted on May 6, 2020 by othermindpress

Thanks to Plum Tree Tavern, which recently published a poem of mine. (Lines is not the title; it seems to be the way Plum Tree identifies short-form poems.)  

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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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February 9*

Posted on February 9, 2014 by othermindpress

photons flung from sun ricocheted off moon scattered and crazed on roil of night-water straight through my eye illuminating my winter-dark mind *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island.

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January 14*

Posted on January 14, 2014 by othermindpress

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

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January 8*

Posted on January 8, 2014 by othermindpress

winter here: shrunken days     wrenched into a grey core cold squish on dank inverted soil all the plants down to bare stalk and prayer dripping except the rogue blackberry     of course still leafed and thorned crouched, gathering for spring wars *Copyright 2010 … Continue reading →

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September 13*

Posted on September 13, 2013 by othermindpress

the thermometer reads the same as days in august but it is different in the groin, in the heart perhaps like marching into battle the fear, the passion the wild excitement of storm. winter. it is coming. i feel it. … Continue reading →

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June 29*

Posted on June 29, 2013 by othermindpress

in winter things are close, insular dark. i meditate, write. introvert. but summer stretches far beyond my reach boundaries evaporating in evanescent shimmers of light. i just want to move, touch, do. with no thought, no reason no prayer. *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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January 19*

Posted on January 19, 2013 by othermindpress

season of high tides, storms, all the beaches rearrange, trade logs, flotsam sending messages, sculpting in their own eternal, practiced way. *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island.

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January 12*

Posted on January 12, 2013 by othermindpress

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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