The Weekly Commuter

Go catch a bird

Joa — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:20:59 +0000

As promised, a new poem is up on the Slice magazine site. Have a look!

Eatin’ Earths Again

Joa — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:10:49 +0000

“Earth Eaters” is getting its time in the sun; it’s up on the Slice magazine blog now with a cool picture! I should have a new poem up next week.

Suggesting a Cloud

Joa — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:24:29 +0000

A new sunset-y poem up on the Slice blog today. Click the link to check it out or read it below!

Suggesting a Cloud

Soak the day
until its soft colors
drain and only
an outline
of all we did
remains—a memory
new enough
we still see it
the same—a vague shape
against the sun
that evening
carries away.

Issue 9 of Monday Night available now!

Joa — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:01:28 +0000

Issue 9 of the literary journal Monday Night is available now…and I’m in it! Check out the link to view my two poems live online or, if you’re in the mood for the real deal, purchase a copy of the magazine for $3 from the site (what a lovely, lively squid on the cover!).

Slice

Joa — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:49:45 +0000

Hi everybody. Guess what? I’m now a poet-in-residence for the literary blog, Slice. Yeah! It’s all thanks to Alex, who invited me to submit. Thank you Alex! A new poem of mine will be featured on the blog every couple of weeks, starting with “Heart Swell” this week. I’m so excited!! I think I can simultaneously post here and there, but I’ll let you know if that changes. And now, more poems for the people (I have a demanding public now, right?).

David and Emily are married!

Joa — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:32:44 +0000

I haven’t posted a poem in such a long time (why? I don’t know)…but here (below) is a poem written for and read at David and Emily’s wedding last Saturday. I was trying to make sure this LOVE poem wouldn’t be too out there, since a crowd of David and Emily’s family and friends would be listening and interpreting. I think it worked! Now I must get back to real work.

Heart Swell

Joa — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:26:14 +0000

We saw the way
you let love in,
the little door
you opened
when the light
began to change—
and night pressed
cool against your face.

When your heart
began to swell
the way the moon will
just before rain
we saw the wide world
in your eyes again,
that wild joy
love sometimes brings.

snail haiku

David — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 14:34:52 +0000

An apology

to the snail

I have crushed underfoot

- reprinted from the 2002 issue of Into the Teeth of the Wind

fish haiku

David — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 19:52:18 +0000

From out of the lake

a fish leaps into Fisherman’s throat:

True story

- reprinted from the 2002 issue of Into the Teeth of the Wind

Our Other Lives

Joa — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:00:48 +0000

In our other lives
we live
where daylight
tangles in the trees
and the sea breathes inland
and we fall
heartfirst
into green dreams.