all the rules of free form
The mountain remains and the mountain reminds me. The mountain is there even when we don’t see it because of the clouds or the fog or a vapor mist and then the mountain will be there when we’re all gone. To walk to the top of the mountain is called climbing you can’t just stroll … Continue reading I Still Watch for the Mountain
Source: a new woman and her skin Continue reading a new woman and her skin
(another Stu poem) Monday morning crisp air cuts up from the lake. With my ever-stained jeans I kick the start on Putt my scooter. We scoot 5 miles down the old road as Putt’s oily gas fumes blend with early morning gravel and overgrown dewy wild grass drainage ditches. On the edge between towns passing … Continue reading Eternal Returns to Work
There’s always another blizzard just before Easter. If a good couple feet fall, and there’s base left and a freeze comes on, you’ll have fine condition for street hockey. The best street hockey is played after supper, as the old dim lamps dazzle through dropping flakes. There’s very little traffic. Mothers go to the store … Continue reading Street Hockey
<a new poem by Stu!> Little Girl Who Stopped Traffic a Mile Every morning Monday through Friday except for holidays. She leaves her house to go to school and stops traffic for a mile. A half mile in either direction to her left and right 100 idling vehicles each way. Watching her after wondering at … Continue reading Little Girl Who Stopped Traffic a Mile
Will the Pill showed us how to put gravel in a snow ball. He waved us all over to him and said, “watch and learn” like he was revealing a military secret. “It will hurt, don’t hit anyone in the eye,” he said as he scooped up a large handful of wet snow in one … Continue reading Twins Snow Balls Double
The Twins being twins like most twins could tell what each was thinking from infancy. Beyond telepathy The Twins possessed an almost instantaneous singularity of thought. The Twins used this intuition to be fierce opponents in snow ball fights. To make things more even, we could not allow them to be on the same squad … Continue reading Twins Snow Ball Flight Part I
