Restoration

Lonesome Music is back! After a six-week hiatus, posts have appeared again. Currently featured: a link to a Tift Merritt tune. Welcome back, Lonesome.

New Poem for the Weekend

The snow has passed through the D.C. area and the sun shines again today. Here's another new poem:

Poem: Naomi

You are not
a metaphor you are
the poem itself:
shapely as a sonnet
you move with
the graceful rhythm
of a pastoral ode yet
you speak with
metaphysical wit.
I am a line
of blank verse
until you lie
beside me
and we rhyme
a perfect couplet.

November 20, 2005

New Poem & New Link

A two-fer today. I discovered Some Depression a while ago. You can find full sets and live performances and if you're into Podcasting (which I confess is beyond me at the moment), there are many available. The emphasis is on roots, alt-country, and Americana, with lots of songs from Wilco, Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt, Damien Rice, and many others.

And here's a new poem, with a newer one to follow in a day or two:

Toward the End of Winter

The wind pauses
as if gathering breath
suspended in one
moment’s stillness
along the edge
of sunlight and
shadow on the
sidewalk I pause
myself scarcely
breathing until
the wind picks up
again and harries me
on along.

February 18, 2005

New Poem

As promised, a new offering:

Unlike Achilles
(For Naomi)

You touch my hand
with one finger
and instantly my heart
feels it. Touch any part
of my skin with any part
of yours and I am
opened fully, my leg
trembles when your hand
brushes my back,
my right arm feels
your fingers on my face.
Unlike Achilles
I have no vulnerable
place: Touch me anywhere,
the sweet wounds bless
me everywhere.

February 9, 2005

Happy Valentine's Day all!

New Linkage (and Out With the Old)

Lonesome Music appears to have gone dormant; there have been no new posts in a number of weeks. Similary, the proprietor of Last Sound of Summer states that he will be updating very rarely from now on. So I have -- with some regret -- removed their links. In their places I have added Mangos and Mandolins and aurgasm. Check 'em out; great tunes at both.

And watch this space; more poetry soon!