Please Excuse This Interruption

I apologize (quite lazily) to those following this blog, but after I missed a couple of days I fell completely out of the routine of updating this every day, and then laziness truly set in.

I realized after some thought that sometimes I was truly stretching on some of the posts, wanting to get something posted even if it wasn’t quite of the ’soul-shaking’ caliber I was hoping for.

Updates are forthcoming, though I don’t think a daily update is going to remain feasible. The blog will be updated as I come across words that truly reverberate and I feel need to be shared.

I hope you will all enjoy what there is to come.

04.20.2008

Night Ferry to Naxos (a poem by Monica Youn)

All your carefully cultivated notions of realism

come to and end here, where the sentimental pink
funnels into the Peloponnese

like a rum and grenadine cocktail
poured down a taut throat. Tourist,

this is how the peace drains into you.
Your fingers uncurl on the deck railings,

and over your head, a spiraling umbilical
of ship-smoke looks back to the brown air of Athens,

which only now, behind you, is beginning
to take shape: a smog-shielded dome.

The flattering breeze picks out your contours
in silverpoint–its insinuations

sweet as fresh-laid sheets, a bedtime story,
mother love. Already above you,

half-heard, a tattoo of wingbeats, bare feet
racing in circles on hard-packed dirt.

You will have to become a hero like the rest of us.

04.09.2008

Poem (a poem by Forrest Hamer)

Sometimes, after, its small fire still

thrumming just under my skin, I
am in awe of this self, sensing once more

I am not what I would think, not body (early winter light holding
against late day chill);

not the end of this on conception;

but the nature of awe
and the nature of doubting it.