A Poetry Page
I am so happy to be able to share my poetry in Still Mystified: The Poems in my Life.
Here is a sample from the book ~
(a different poem will appear from time to time)
Black Calming Stone
I
did not know the power of poetry
to bind and unbind.
For these are more than poems: they are spells.
Image
by image
and line by line I am writing myself into the land
into the house that never felt like mine
I am rubbing the essence of myself like fine oil
into this world unloved
until suddenly
one day
it fits smooth to the mind's touch
the way my
calming stone
fits smooth to my thumb
(picked it up on Ben Way, under the redwoods
held it silky black in years of warm pockets
till it slips between my fingers like butter,
almost alive)--
I am writing myself into my life.
Still Mystified: the Poems in my Life is available now from our Bookshop
Like my other books, it is also carried by Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com and Booksamillion.com, or you can request it through your favorite local bookstore.
I am wonderfully honored to have one of my poems selected for the printed anthology, Poets Against the War! This anthology includes poems from the best known American poets as well as unknowns like myself, chosen from the approximately 13,000 poems submitted to the site. It is from Amazon.com and other online sources, and bookstores everywhere.