“Keep Your Windows Clean”
When I Zoom meet with my poet friend Wendy we often share things we've read and take some time to write. The following is inspired from Ron Paggett's poem "How to Be Perfect", found in Collected Poems 2013. This line in particular sparked interest: Keep Your Windows Clean. Arctic ...
Place of Mind, part 2
The mind's place is a terrain of contradictions. Favorable breezes ruffle a lush rolling landscape that shimmers with dew and blueberries and the sheen of spider silk. Verdant and severe in turns. Charting a course into the unknown. jl Topographical layers of a country, both well-known and yet ...
Place of Mind
Books are time machines. Words are ink and energy fusion. What a great week: new pages written; familiar stories re-visited.
Slideshow, Transparencies of Time
The color drenched reels of memory. I time-travel, allowing moments to re-ignite. Writing a new world, I delve into the sensory zone of by-gone moments. Under spells of graphite and old slides. Faded photographs and flowers pressed between the pages of books. Summer wine decanted. The indelible yet ...
Waking from a Midsummer’s Dream
The Writer Elkhound's next selection. We've left the Shire and The Lonely Mountain. Onward!jl The light of August seeps into paper, weaves into the forest as vibrant as ignited confetti. Sun confetti.jl A crow perches on a high cedar and calls into the air, half- ...
August Lists
The Writer Elkhound's second summer pick.jl Inscribing a list keeps me on my toes. Basic rules when generating a list: go big, be expansive, accept failure as part of the equation, and always use a pencil with a good eraser! jl Categories: books read, books I'm ...
Wordcombing on a Summer Day
Red morning... jl Summer palette deepens. The road curves toward home, overgrown and dusty. Notebooks fill up like baskets full of dry and fragrant kindling. I watch as hummingbirds thrum by - feathered kinetic energy. Studying cloud wisps, I imagine myself reclining on a raft, bobbing through a ...
DISPARATE – Piecing the Puzzle
Reflections on a Pandemic Spring leading into Summer: J. Laster “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley: In Search of America The Writer Elkhound on a pensive afternoon.J. Laster Opposites. ...
Icicles II
“To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.” Edgar Allan Poe WINTER SHARDS My earliest memories are composed of winter shards. j. laster On frosty mornings, cradling a cup of coffee and gazing through ice rime on the window, I conjure a late winter. Within the internal reel of ...
Icicles: Cold Vignettes on a Winter’s Day
Ice is unstable, unpredictable. A sheen of crystal can cause tires to spin out. The surface of a frozen lake can give way. On a cold Pacific Northwest day, wind chill kicks up a notch and I am reminded of past winters and higher latitudes.