tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24021081531888590092024-02-08T08:40:07.857-08:00Cam Scott and the Fishtrap PoetsThese poems are produced during the Fishtrap writing residency of Cameron K. Scott.Zumwalt Prairie Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05172549968843841083noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402108153188859009.post-57158332950900743172012-02-23T11:25:00.001-08:002012-02-23T11:25:37.200-08:00Animal satori<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif][if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</style> <![endif][if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026"/> </xml><![endif][if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapelayout v:ext="edit"> <o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1"/> </o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%;">How daring are you? You have a choice: all<br />
all in or all out, fall in or fall out. The love <br />
that can be defined simply is not the true <br />
love. Upon discovering this, a trumpet <br />
of sunlight and maybe even enlightenment!<br />
Maybe you can describe it well – but likely <br />
not.<span> </span>If you meet the true love on the road: <br />
kill ‘im. Or some detachment to that effect. <br />
One more time: How daring are you? The <br />
next breath tells more than you know.</span></span>Zumwalt Prairie Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05172549968843841083noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402108153188859009.post-74173677082958130112012-02-23T11:15:00.002-08:002012-02-23T11:15:59.508-08:00A sonnet for ODOT* (rules for the road)<div style="color: black; font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">Notice for those in fender-benders: The insurance company <br />
declines the word "accident." It's a crash or a collision or <br />
sometimes a hit-and-run. You decide. Your friendly driver's manual <br />
has prescriptions for staying in the clear: Do not hit other cars<br />
bikes, pedestrians, or squad cars. Driving is not the time <br />
to solve problems, plan trips, daydream, or read. "I was reading<br />
my driver's manual on my Smart Phone," is not a good defense.<br />
<br />
Concentrate: In front of you, behind you, on both sides of you.<br />
For extra Zen, awareness of what is above or below you<br />
may be credited. But here's the deal: If something goes bad, stop -<br />
or turn turn turn the wheels. Other tips: No pets, packages or<br />
persons in your arms when you drive. It is dangerous to eat<br />
let alone drink when you drive. Let the kids rumpus<br />
until they make you pull over: You know they'll be sorry then.<br />
<br />
Your car mirror is not designed to give you a good view<br />
of your make up. Put your eyes on the road; hang up and drive.</span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"> </div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </div><div style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> * <a href="http://www.odot.state.or.us/forms/dmv/37.pdf" rel="nofollow">www.odot.state.or.us/forms/dmv/37.pdf</a></span> </div>Zumwalt Prairie Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05172549968843841083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402108153188859009.post-59570284993912225502012-02-21T15:30:00.002-08:002012-02-23T11:16:46.732-08:00Unlike Rumi<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">(for Tony)</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The snow falls, a nail<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">runs down the chalkboard of Spring.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The glassblower’s breath.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Don’t fall in</span></div>Cam Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00748720385558083470noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402108153188859009.post-62898325718058019832012-02-13T00:48:00.000-08:002012-02-13T00:48:20.995-08:00half sonnet for the swirlies (news from a small town 2012)<div class="post-header"></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">every first of the year or so, there’s a marathon.<br />
my trash can, your trash can, their trash can <br />
all gather on the street for the race to Union County.<br />
it’s the day for pick up, always coordinated <br />
with the first husky wind out of nowhere. <br />
don’t forget the prizes for the best run race: a <br />
<br />
barely-used tarp or a new lid for the one that got away.</span></span></div>Zumwalt Prairie Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05172549968843841083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402108153188859009.post-24175972904927659802012-02-08T10:00:00.001-08:002012-02-08T10:01:21.280-08:00winter travel<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">the snow erupts</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">a hundred white buntings </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">one longspur</span></span>Zumwalt Prairie Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05172549968843841083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402108153188859009.post-79126574382111095542012-02-07T22:04:00.001-08:002012-02-08T10:01:41.155-08:00Smile, smile<div style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"></span></b></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Is it true if you can’t make it until death do you<br />
in this place<br />
you still have to serve your in-laws<br />
breakfast<br />
there being only one or two cafes for<br />
Sunday out,<br />
and them being chummy with your boss?<br />
Eat it,<br />
suck it up with a big smile and say,<br />
“I always <br />
did like you better’n him, anyway,”<br />
or hope<br />
they’ll be so kind to say it as he sits with the<br />
new bride<br />
across the street in the other place.<br />
“Besides,” says<br />
your ex father-in-law, “Johanna does make<br />
a fine<br />
bacon-and-eggs.” Your ex mother-in-law, whom <br />
you took<br />
to the city for the false alarm tests <br />
to see <br />
if that bad cough was cancer doesn’t<br />
say much,<br />
but she makes sure to count your tip<br />
exactly. Can’t<br />
be shorting you, but then again - <br />
she IS <br />
his mom, you know she hopes you’d do<br />
the same<br />
for the grandson you never gave her.<br />
Clear off,<br />
set the four top. Here comes the church crowd.<br />
Smile, smile.</span></div>Zumwalt Prairie Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05172549968843841083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402108153188859009.post-63254858199232358292012-02-07T11:43:00.000-08:002012-02-07T11:44:47.083-08:00Short Shorts!<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Donkeys<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Kick through freeze thaw leaves<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and snowmen. Meteoric<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">lilies. The universe.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hangnail<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The pink fingernail <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">weeps vineyards of red iron<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">where there is no tear-duct.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some days<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Even little cranes need help<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">folded tightly on the wooden desk<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">where wind or breath might blow them off.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Neutercane<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The midsection of a tall portly horse.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The relentless pursuit of cats.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sometimes the frontal edge of a cyclone.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Look Out! I’ve Just Sacredized Aspen!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The people who visit<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">are possessed by the spirits <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">of birds. A juncture <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">of seemingly disconnected, <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">but related, things.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">More Room to Fail <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mad freedom, mad failure, <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">too mad to fall or fail.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Look out! I’ve just sacredized Aspen again!</span></span><o:p></o:p></span>Cam Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00748720385558083470noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402108153188859009.post-38262100238833401622012-02-07T09:07:00.000-08:002012-02-07T09:07:15.526-08:00life is...<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>superbowl sunday</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>reports fighting continues</span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">life is entertainment</span></span>Zumwalt Prairie Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05172549968843841083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402108153188859009.post-68989648084725624412012-02-06T19:01:00.000-08:002012-02-06T22:34:14.152-08:00winter raptors in Wallowa country<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">redtails, roughlegs, goldens <br />
balds, prairies </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">all stoop - </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
the trophic cascade plunges</span></div>Zumwalt Prairie Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05172549968843841083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402108153188859009.post-43529050530840970952012-02-06T14:32:00.001-08:002012-02-07T11:43:41.692-08:00Haiku from the Carbondale Poets<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Unexpected love peered<br />
from the front row<br />
while I jittered and blushed<br />
<br />
Patrick Curry</span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
Ha ha I was so right<br />
On my game, up until<br />
She asked if I was ok</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span> <span style="font-size: large;"> Patrick Curry<br />
<br />
<br />
Crows by the dozens</span> <span style="font-size: large;"><br />
Mingling with the cows<br />
Symbiotic relationshit?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Dave Teitler</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<br />
blue to cloud to stars</span> <span style="font-size: large;"><br />
maybe I'll write a haiku<br />
but Zen is not self conscious<br />
<br />
Barbara Reese</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
tiny spiders climb<br />
dusty vegetal aspen<br />
to silk chute the breeze<br />
<br />
Heidi Owen</span> <span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span> <br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<br />
</span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">blue to cloud to stars<br />
maybe I'll write a haiku</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Zen in everything<br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Kim Nuzzo</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>Zumwalt Prairie Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05172549968843841083noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402108153188859009.post-36661352265326102092012-02-03T13:59:00.000-08:002012-02-03T13:59:58.925-08:00Letting Go<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Of all the treasures in the cave, </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">what is the one you most desire? </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mutter your open-sesames and </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">rub your lamps with caution: Want </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">circumvents have. You may find </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">this magic to be unreliable. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Trust is not the point. Still, keep track </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">of who tells you this, who sets you </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">on the hero's journey, who raises </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">the bar - never mind the why. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Even wise words can suck you dry. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Be sure they are your own.</span></span></span>Zumwalt Prairie Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05172549968843841083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402108153188859009.post-40845375732370161212012-02-03T11:57:00.000-08:002012-02-03T11:57:20.341-08:00In Regards to Being Happy<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">a springer spaniel<br />
in the back of a pickup<br />
his head between the slats</span>Zumwalt Prairie Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05172549968843841083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402108153188859009.post-19519758381683842982012-02-03T08:13:00.000-08:002012-02-03T17:37:46.335-08:00Observations in Five Reverses<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> <span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: large;"> End </span></span></b><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br />
(conditions: snowing and graders)</i></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">songiesandjuncos, frozenroses<br />
some big black flapping thing <br />
eightravensraving - and a <br />
magpie in a fruit tree.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> 4<br />
</b><i>(conditions: white – white – white)<br />
<br />
</i></span><span style="font-size: large;">male china pheasant in a game of chicken <br />
with a pick up<br />
and...is that a prairie falcon with the stripe-y cheek?<br />
deer droppings in the birdseed <br />
on the walkway home.<br />
<br />
<b><br />
3</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>(conditions: 4" new snow)</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">threematurebaldsonejuvieonnasprinklerline <br />
eighteenravens pickingthedeerbones, <br />
another mature bald, a magotty pie, </span><span style="font-size: large;">starling <br />
with redwing delusions, </span><span style="font-size: large;">two wet horses</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">in the driveway.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> 2<br />
</b><i> (conditions: cold and high-falutin')</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">on a phone line star-star-star-star- star- star- starlings.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">against a snow field: black part of the magpies.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">cockedheadedkingfisher. sunonsnowonsunonsnow. <br />
the brakes work, well enough. a pair of china pheasants - <br />
the male dive bombing the highway.</span> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br />
<br />
Start</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>(conditions: slushy and undercast)</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">fourjuncos, gaudychinapheasant, <br />
hunkeredkingfisher, wetredtail - teflonmagpie - and <br />
roadside, redandbluespeckledticketgiver.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></div>Zumwalt Prairie Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05172549968843841083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402108153188859009.post-80130390378924401202012-02-03T08:11:00.001-08:002012-02-03T08:11:48.058-08:00Grief At the End of the Road<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"> The sky turned into a white open hand,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">a strange heaven, self revealed at last, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">shining tears of things remembered </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">and their oblivion a wondrous dust</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">in our hands. We became every silence </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">everywhere.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our souls burst open</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">becoming light, a certain state of mind.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Words flowed through everything and we </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">could hold them in our hands.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">All wounds but whirling ash</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">consumed in holy flame.</span></div>Zumwalt Prairie Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05172549968843841083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402108153188859009.post-58497383451242382042012-02-03T08:10:00.001-08:002012-02-03T12:03:04.263-08:00Pitaa Hamarra<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Pitaa Hamarra</b></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>(keeping the twilight)</b></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">The wind is blowing new ways to love. Somewhere over the garden walls heavenly rivers flow like blood flows through our bodies, a miraculous healing everywhere, everywhere, of wounds we didn't even know we suffered. When matter meets matter, a cold eye of the moon. When an answer meets an answer, lips across my bones. When matter meets an answer, only a few miles from home. And that's because we don't only live in the world. We make it up.</span></div>Zumwalt Prairie Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05172549968843841083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402108153188859009.post-52193362036880016332012-02-03T08:08:00.001-08:002012-02-03T08:08:49.530-08:00A Promise<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Peep show</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">of the Moonlight Milkshake Stars</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">and the Bubble of Eternity in the Unborn Void</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">of Everything we love</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">means nothing but more and more</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">spicy, mind over matter surprises.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Don’t be fooled.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">The milky juice of everything</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">is spilling over, door to door,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">up and down, a madplay</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">of promise, spinning all of us</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">into one song of soft breathing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">And it’s very sunny</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">this snowy morning.</span></div>Zumwalt Prairie Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05172549968843841083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402108153188859009.post-51862905126224807762012-02-03T08:07:00.000-08:002012-02-03T08:07:39.229-08:00four haiku from aspen<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>blue to cloud to stars</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>maybe I'll write a haiku</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>but Zen is not self conscious</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">beauty of the ar<span style="color: #1f497d;">t</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">impossible dream of words</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">diamond poetry</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">cold morning light</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">raw frost sketches on window</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">signed Artist Unknown</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">three birds on a wire</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">two look to the east one west</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">radical gestures</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div>Zumwalt Prairie Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05172549968843841083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402108153188859009.post-65355289785612461152012-02-02T19:00:00.000-08:002012-02-02T22:15:30.673-08:00Dustin Is the Boy Who Walks Unencumbered<div class="yiv1132181049MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>after Katey Schultz</i><br />
<br />
Dustin walks five feet to school. <br />
It’s further than that, of course, but this is what he tells people.<br />
<br />
With a new pair of light-up sneakers <br />
and eight hours in classrooms decorated with stenciled artwork </span></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<div class="yiv1132181049MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">each crack of the sidewalk becomes a fault line <br />
shaking him further and further from <br />
his flannel sheets, and the best Buzz Lightyear figurine any boy ever owned.<br />
<br />
What saddened him most—though he would not have said it this way at the time—<br />
were the hot hive of fluorescent lights <br />
and the incessant ticking of each clock. <br />
<br />
How easily he forgot—without even knowing—<br />
what came before schoolyard fist fights <br />
and cafeteria doldrums.<br />
<br />
Help him remember: He’s still young.<br />
He’s playing in the backyard and somehow he’s forgotten his shoes. <br />
It’s raining again because this is what it does. <br />
As is his ability to stand in the rain without concern <br />
for a coat or a hat or an umbrella. <br />
<br />
It’s really quite simple. He stands with his bare feet <br />
sinking into the saturated lawn <br />
and counts by fives: <br />
five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty five, thirty, thirty five, forty, and so forth. <br />
<br />
That’s it. That’s life. He’s playing all by himself and jabs sticks <br />
into the sopsoil and sings this song over and over and over again. <br />
<br />
Until the day after graduation. When he’ll step out the front door <br />
and walk five feet the other direction. <br />
<br />
Countless miles of Zumwalt prairie stretching ahead. </span></div>Zumwalt Prairie Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05172549968843841083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402108153188859009.post-79036721524749327262012-02-02T10:02:00.001-08:002012-02-02T10:04:05.063-08:00At Kinney Lake<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="messageBody">beaches and rocks <br />
embrace the bullhead world <br />
i will never invent water</span></span></h6>Zumwalt Prairie Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05172549968843841083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402108153188859009.post-90850350641170047072012-02-01T22:10:00.001-08:002012-02-03T12:05:09.328-08:00To Contribute A Poem<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">e-mail zumwaltprairiecache @ gmail.com if you're a Fishtrap poet (you don't have to be here to "be here")!</span></span>Zumwalt Prairie Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05172549968843841083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402108153188859009.post-84990000415440861272012-02-01T19:05:00.000-08:002012-02-01T23:59:15.913-08:00on the way to the jar<div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It’s a free symphony of ripe blackberries, </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">juicy stains segue from berry to inside </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> of frowzy Safeway bags. Outside, <br />
she </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">sports juice-red thumbs; bright <br />
with blood from the crown of thorns.<br />
It's time for the fugue: melody of fruit, <br />
harmony of sugar, counterpoint <br />
of pectin, grace notes of berry bits, <br />
nibbled during rests. To the end, <br />
she carries the business: boiling the <br />
mason jars to cleanliness; listening <br />
sharp </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">for the tink! of a good seal. <br />
And now, finale: Hot sweet scents <br />
rise and soar, where she conducts <br />
the fresh hot jars from the pot </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
to the end. She sweats and smiles, <br />
bows to an imaginary audience, <br />
licks her fingertips, allegro, presto.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
This work is her cross, it is her choice. </span></span><br />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></div>Zumwalt Prairie Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05172549968843841083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402108153188859009.post-26383824852964150332012-02-01T18:47:00.001-08:002012-02-01T18:48:10.465-08:00Workshop<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It is really fun to be with people</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><br />
who are not fully operational,<br />
do not contain hazardous materials<br />
and have left their vehicles<br />
in the big-lot where people like us<br />
leave our vehicles when we want to go<br />
kick through the freeze thaw leaves<br />
and snowmen, pestoing and drinking<br />
a vintage made not for Death Stars<br />
or Battle Star Galacticas, but for<br />
the whole damn universe.<br />
The way we squint with our lips<br />
in the sun and see the point of origin<br />
off in the vastness, herding donkeys,<br />
where vineyards of iron rise<br />
from the meteoric strikes of lilies.<br />
The pink fingernail, how can it weep<br />
when there is no tear-duct,<br />
only hangnails? Some days<br />
even little cranes need help,<br />
folded tightly on the wooden desk,<br />
where wind or breath might blow them off.</span>Zumwalt Prairie Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05172549968843841083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402108153188859009.post-29787925647064847212012-02-01T16:50:00.001-08:002012-02-01T16:50:24.605-08:00Dear Wolf<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The zumwalt prarie</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> yellow in the crook of arm.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> (echo, echo, echo, echo)</span></span>Zumwalt Prairie Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05172549968843841083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402108153188859009.post-57575176391000812392012-01-31T23:42:00.001-08:002012-02-01T19:05:43.501-08:00Year of the Dragon: 33 degrees<h3 class="post-title entry-title"></h3><div class="post-header"></div><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">splash! fills the space </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"> between hiss and crack -</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> hiking hurricane creek, chinese new year</span> </span></span></span>Zumwalt Prairie Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05172549968843841083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2402108153188859009.post-81264532226627541592012-01-31T14:16:00.000-08:002012-01-31T14:24:30.882-08:00Poetry Blog for the Fishtrap Poets and Writer in Residence Cam ScottThis blog collects poetry by the Fishtrap poetry group poets (and friends!) during the writing residency of poet Cameron K. Scott. Blog members may get author access by sending a note to zumwaltprairiecache@ gmail.com.Zumwalt Prairie Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05172549968843841083noreply@blogger.com0