Ghost Buffalo

MAYBE I AM TRAVELING Rainer Maria Rilke Maybe I am traveling, like some secret ore,  through the hard veins of a mountain, alone. And I'm in so deep that I see no door and no distance: nothing but a single core that draws in all things and changes them to stone. I don't have much wisdom about misery.  The darkness has made me smaller, it's true.  Are you the one solid enough? Come, break through,  so that all of your touch might happen to me,  and all of my tears might happen to you. (from The Book of Hours) translation Paul Weinfield

My extended essay on the works of the recently deceased poet, Paula Tatarunis, appears in the current issue of Mezzo Cammin:   The Lam's Tough on a Goil, Paula Tatarunis

The Education of a Poet  By Leslie Monsour (b. Jan. 25, 1948) Her pencil poised, she's ready to create,  Then listens to her mind's perverse debate On whether what she does serves any use; And that is all she needs for an excuse To spend all afternoon and half the night Enjoying poems other people write.

God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubt ! 

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. It it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.   - E.B. White

“So good to be back in your life, my friend!” But ....you never left. * Many scientists are unaware that materialism is an assumption.   They simply think of it as science, or the scientific view of reality, or the scientific world view.  They are not actually taught about it, or encouraged to discuss it.  It’s simply absorbed by a kind of intellectual osmosis.   - Sheldrake

                                      I'll be teaching a class through the Art Center at the Blue Pig Gallery here in Palisade on Saturday, Feb 11.  For information, please visit: Wendy Videlock: The art of Spontaneous Creation

Where did all the mountains go ...

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