Category Archives: Poetry

Blindfold

Posted on May 29, 2015 by sputterpub

The sprouting grass is soft beneath my feet, receptive, squeaky-vivid, bending, bright. And gentle is the asphalt of the street I walk across, ignoring every sight. The air is like a washcloth on my brow, my cheeks, my throat: that … Continue reading →

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El Niño 1998

Posted on May 26, 2015 by sputterpub

Benign the weather god has been to me who sent the humid infant to demand no tribute dearer than a twisted knee. It lets my rotten-floored garage withstand the cataracts of Codornices Creek and daily squalls don’t penetrate my panes. … Continue reading →

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Editorial (2)

Posted on May 25, 2015 by sputterpub

Aroma wreathed around my neck, against my cheeks, upon my brow: the talcum scent of new wisteria encircled tensed impelling calves, caressed my arms and spent itself on canted slabs of sidewalk, curbs with stenciled numbers, gutters filled with spume … Continue reading →

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Mercury

Posted on May 22, 2015 by sputterpub

Apparently you act by tacit rules that everyone has memorized but me, as if you all attended secret schools of age- and gender-based propriety. A manly woman or a childish sage can’t find examples of the adverse stroke across the … Continue reading →

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Discord

Posted on May 18, 2015 by sputterpub

The smoke is laminating through the air in horizontal zones of grayish white that sting my eyes and dry my throat and tear to streaks the softness of the evening light. The music thrums like weapons in my ears. Competing … Continue reading →

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Antithesis

Posted on May 15, 2015 by sputterpub

Nutrition, shelter, offspring: these propel us all, we know, for so the experts speak. Now some add altered consciousness, and tell us getting high’s another goal we seek. But are these all? Are we that simply framed and limited, by … Continue reading →

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Cosmojecture

Posted on May 11, 2015 by sputterpub

The Talmud’s name for God appears to be the fragment “Holy One, blesséd be He.” And though the phrase was not in English made, and by translation casts a flimsy shade, the “blesséd” intimates an agency that showers favor on … Continue reading →

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Sights

Posted on May 8, 2015 by sputterpub

A purple petal hanging from a strand of spider web, between a branch and ground, appears suspended, managed by a hand nobody sees: confetti small and round. And stacked atop a station garbage can, a homeless monitor and CPU with … Continue reading →

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On Dedicating Inclusive Housing

Posted on May 4, 2015 by sputterpub

Three moments of eternity shone forth the other day, like stars on moonless nights or glints on glass. I walked and turning north I saw the name I named as if in lights; and then I heard my name in … Continue reading →

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Nestor

Posted on May 1, 2015 by sputterpub

If everything in life’s a type of test, then pass this one and you’ll matriculate. Just let the process shape you to the best edition you progressively create. A problem is a puzzle in disguise, and you can use your … Continue reading →

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