I've just read a quick, clever, and compelling look at magnificent midlife in The Atlantic by James Parker. Here's a tease (with advice for middle agers to "feed the flame" and "Go up brightly"! You know yourself, quite well by now. Life has introduced you to your shadow; you’ve met your dark double, and with a bit of luck the two of you have made your accommodations. You know your friends. You ...
Erotics of Detail
“the whole experiencechanged,become physical, charged, sexual, visceral:passing:leaving a residueof tenderness for the failures that have, after all, supplied us with theseinteresting scars.”— Janet Holmes, “The Erotics of Detail” (Source: Poetry Foundation) Erotics of Detail (Photo Collage: Geo Davis) And what, I imagine you asking, of the contemplative erotics of detail, of detritus, of ...
On the Road
Long conversationsbeside blooming irises —joys of life on the road— Bashō On the Road: iris detail (Credit: Geo Davis) Conversation — the currency of voyagers and flaneurs — and blooming — the byproduct of a peripatetic path — are *among* the joys. So many joys… ...
Prickly Pestering
Life has always yelled at me,“Get your work done.” At leastthat’s what I think she says. — Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison, Braided Creek: a conversation in poetry Prickly Pestering (Photo: Geo Davis) ...
Sleep & Hope
“The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.” — E. Joseph Cossman ...
Coffee Ring
Coffee Ring Excerpt (Source: Geo Davis) Some mornings manifest with déjà-vu-esque familiarity. This morning. The clock sighed backwards into a poem that was born early in this meandering middlescence, about six years ago. Coffee RingMorning’s lazy flyAnd I consider theCoffee ring phantomOf your mug half full.No grinds to read.Only lingering scents,The dregs of youth,The dross of ...