Red Stone

Note- some poems are prompted by a word or a phrase, perhaps an experience. This was suggested by an impossibly beautiful tree deep at the head of the unfortunately named “Negro Bill Canyon” off of the Colorado Rive near Moab Utah.   red stone by the time we reach the top of the canyon we’ve … Read more

Food – more pieces from Karme Choling, November 2014

food my mother kept a grinder in the kitchen for breaking nuts, or making sausage– I remember the feeling of jamming pieces of meat into the mouth of the machine, watching as muscle, tendons and the odd small bones were crushed, feeling the resistance as the handle paused until the harder bits would break. Any … Read more

sacrament

for my friend Frank Ryan of whom I’m quite fond, though we’ve never actually met — thanks for the poems Frank!   Sacrament you cant drive a nail with a pen, or at least I can’t– 26 letters in just one of how many alphabets? the neighbor kid is kneeling on his back porch with … Read more