The Weekly Commuter

Little finger
of a moat
protect one side of this city
from another, neither better
for this strip of bay water.
One freeway
to tuck
under the other:
mother daughter,
shy toddler
of an on-ramp.
A lap of wet clothes
and a bottle,
a tramp and a backpack gang
tagging the insides
of factories.
They leave they’ll leave eventually.
Silt, settling
in your belly,
melting trench songs
men sang
in the days of industry
will fill you […]

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Watching the 80th annual Academy Awards now and they’ve just finished with the annual run-through of all the actors, actresses, writers, art directors, composers, cinematographers, producers, directors, dancers, executives (executives? did I miss something? is this a new development? since when did they make the montage?) and others who died between February 2007 and January […]

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The future pales
to lavender
the way sunsets do,
the edge of the earth
the door
day departs through.
Shifting hearts, like low
dunes, still warm
with afternoon,
welcome night, unfixed
as new-sown stars.

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George Bush speaks American

Shouldn’t you?

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In need of a cloud
to carry us –
the kind that keep
a hold and move
like the wide world, so
imperceptibly slow,
past planets small
as stars, with the earth
so far below somehow
life stills,
the swirls of white
on blue
obscuring the shapes
of landmasses
we learned in school.

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Usually I am a big fan and am glad you returned to Salon.com after a five-year hiatus. Recently, however, you wrote something that called into question your aesthetic taste:
 

A quite different film that I’ve recently enjoyed re-seeing and studying is “Revenge of the Sith” (2005) from George Lucas’ “Star Wars” saga. The climactic […]

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The effort, the deep down-hinge of wings
a sea sigh
we feel
as the osprey rise
ever higher, into thinner
atmospheres, and
we can’t remember, sand
in the corners of our eyes.

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Great post by Timothy Egan of The New York Times pinpointing exactly why Mitt Romney’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination failed:
Anti-Mormon bias on the part of evangelical Christians, who believe the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to be a cult. In the eyes of these evangelicals Mormonism isn’t even a religion, let […]

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Night and herons pass
between trees,
the intermittent bus,
with its dim
foci, approaching.
Home, by unfamiliar
roads, in the clearing
the low moon
shows. Routine
passengers drift
near sleep. Alert
to passing time, I am
awake with the wait.

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