Poet’s Corner

EPIC Poetry Group: Poet’s Corner — Distances, Ah Liberty, Deciding Bones

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. DISTANCES Distance I Five antelope, a clearing– Onrushing express– Hard to escape the dashing. Distance II No Godot yet . . . Like waiting for justice . . . Still no Godot . . . Distance III My nose ends, yours…

EPIC Poetry Group: Poet’s Corner — Letting Go the Grail, Phobophobia

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. Letting Go the Grail It’s the soft giving up of everything the chipped cup from your grandmother’s wedding the framed kindergarten painting by your younger son a drawer full of cords and wire too full to close A life’s work of…

EPIC Poetry Group: Poet’s Corner — Secrets, What I Saw, Translations

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. SECRETS Contemplating a poem about secrets and how they hold us breathless, sometimes sad but mostly accountable by their strength. I host an old secret lurking deep inside so painful I can hardly breath. Personal, my version of disgrace and I…

EPIC Poetry Group: Poet’s Corner — Jack’s Pass Ritual, Piccadilly Circus

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. Jack’s Pass Ritual Fallen tree trunks casually balanced on young men’s shoulders. Bare-chested foragers, continuous ant parade. August perspiration work preparation for the coming darkness. The girls huddle teardrop diamond ring beauty weddings discussed. Fresh & clean in the woods unaware…

EPIC Poetry Group Poet’s Corner: Safe from discovery, Ends, Ache, Mummy

Here’s the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group Safe from discovery I want to search and I want to find in one fell swoop, the discovery of the real root. I want answers and I want to know how this hidden menace came to grow. I think of secrets…

EPIC Poetry Group Poet’s Corner: Security, Worship, Medicine, Going Home

Here’s the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. Security  My grandfather let me play with his hair, long oiled threads of white from temple to nape I could style into a cute bob that touched his jaw. Then he’d dance for me, all elbows and knees, before slicking it…

EPIC Poetry Group Poet’s Corner: Winter Limbs, Call for Justice, Change Just Is

(Updated Feb. 28 with additional poem that was unintentionally omitted.) Here’s the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. Winter Limbs Bordering road and farm statuesque, boughs stretched upward big leaf maple proudly displays her bare bones Draw near and see her branches are not barren but gracefully draped with…

EPIC Poetry Group: Poet’s Corner — Tree Paranoia, New Moon

Here’s the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group.   TREE PARANOIA He cut down those looming trees bound to doom him with their danger. Larger than his mansion, he imagines they could flatten him in any wind. When wind advisories raged he booked a room in a hotel. When rain…

EPIC Poetry Group: Poet’s Corner — Remembering My Grandfather, Not Knowing, Warmth

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. Remembering My Grandfather (The Gift) As time passes, the silent snowfall, nestles deep, branching from trees to roof top eves, gathering in spaces, time tied to memories, memories to time, the bristles of my artist brush, stiff, wiry, like my Grandpa’s…

EPIC Poetry Group: Poet’s Corner — Here’s What I Saw

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. Dear Reader, This poem revealed itself early on to be the lyrics of a song yet to be written. It was inspired by a moving documentary about the young Freedom Riders in Alabama in the 1960’s, viewed against the backdrop of…

EPIC Poetry Group: Poet’s Corner — Cooper, Garbage Eve, Identity Theft

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. Cooper Beady-eyed DB sips a highball tobacco-tinged like his fingers. Eight Raleigh cigarettes snuffed out in a tiny ashtray in the armrest. He watches the stewardess work the drink cart up the aisle pushing with her hips back when stewardesses were…

EPIC Poetry Group: Poet’s Corner — Dark Ages Diary, Dowsing, Dendrochronology

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group   Dark Ages Diary Burned as a witch again this time at the grocery store the clerk saw my purchases drifting dangerously down the conveyor-belt Drew the obvious conclusion: I am Maid of Wood Gather angelica and licorice Brew heady concoctions…

EPIC Poetry Group: Poet’s Corner — Starbucks Windbag, Moonswept, Secrets Shared

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group.   Starbucks Windbag She chatters on her cellphone Natters, blusters, shouts Her anguish and her anger She loudly spews and spouts   It’s washed across her tabletop Splashed across her shoes Overflows the coffee shop As she blurts her blues  …

EPIC Poetry Group: Poet’s Corner — Water, Sweet September

  Here’s the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. Water On that late afternoon summer day my sister and I dropped our clothes onto the dock and dove in our skinny bodies brown from a summer sun that would always be there at a lake so quiet we could…

EPIC Poetry Group: Poet’s Corner — Nature’s Gift, I Wish We Could Talk, Isolation

Here’s the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds-based EPIC Poetry Group. Nature’s Gift The view has been the same for decades More than 30 years from my backyard deck alone Wetlands stretch across the valley Several square miles surrounded by country hillsides A single road along the north border carries visitors to the…