We saw a raven in the fork of a tree
spreading its wings: taut and dark
in the shadow of the belfry—
Even this far in the city, it is
a wild thing. It won’t come,
it won’t eat from your white hand—
01 27 2013
In response to Via Negativa: Larks.
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Yes, I hold certain things to be sacred but I keep them sacred by not telling you what they are.
— Sherman AlexieWhat’s up
Principal blog author Dave Bonta has a new chapbook of love poems, first published at Via Negativa and now available free or at cost in multiple formats: Twelve Simple Songs. ... Guest author Luisa A. Igloria has been writing and posting a poem a day since November 2010, often in response to Dave's posts at The Morning Porch. ... Dave also has a poem-a-day project now, constructing erasure poems from the 17th-century diary entries of Samuel Pepys. Here's what that's all about.-
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