Mina La Verdad de Un Artista
Truth of an Artist, strange name for a mine.
It´s hard to reach. Nobody wants you there.
Poems from a Series on the Sierra Minera and Its Mining History
Advice to Ripen Her Words; Options; The Road (One Of Many Personal Freeways)
Advice to Ripen Her Words
Reading no absolutist treatise has convinced her.
Days of relative good occur: no carpenter ants
in the sill; no too soft fruit on grocery shelves;
no June losing streak to end the pennant hope;
no overt faults crumbling at continental edges.
Actualization; Neologism; Container; Sehnsucht; Afflatus
Actualization
The need for desacralizing unfolds. Our gods
never cease to fail us, some even after death.
A Song for Today
[author] [author_image timthumb=’on’][/author_image] [author_info]Stanley Kaplan has published poetry and flash in a number of journals including Onthebus, Convergence, Chiron and JuxtaProse. He paints as well a writes. He is the Recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant.[/author_info] [/author]
Anniversary; At the Moriarty Library, Lesley University; Bolinas; Neighborhood, Thursday Morning, Snow Flurries; Portrait d’une Femme
Anniversary
If your death were human,
it would have turned adult
yesterday, and I missed
the occasion. Downwind
from your memory,
I revoke the small sentiments
that flatter and stamp
my estimation of you.
The Simple Order of Things; Stay With Me; Twilight Without Fault; Mystery; The Lesson of History; The Flight of the Hieroglyph
Every morning I continue my evening prayer
and then I scatter myself like a trunk cut off by the hands
of a blind and crazy slave in several pieces,
which carry in their yellow sap the smell of the earth.