Selected Writings
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"Haiga [paintings] are typically painted by haiku poets (haijin), and often accompanied by a haiku poem." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiga Creating photo-haiga is a central part of my daily art practice: I find it both invigorating and meditative, an often odd, but...
Four Haiga
Also available at Feral: A Journal of Poetry and Art
Sway
Sway To drop a light grey sock over each dark shoe waiting, no boat no coffin, to carry her feet away— she will walk back again— remove the shoes, socks will drop away. I Sometimes at night, some nights, wake me to silence, its thrum is invitation to walk head...
Paprika
Paprika by Alan Bern At the very back of our ancient Frigidaire is a little bag made of white cotton; the red letters on it spell Paprika. Sweet, we remember. I rarely see the bag—for fifteen years it’s sat there following our Budapest trip. Annie, your brain’s...
suckerfish mutualist
suckerfish mutualist By Alan Bern when I ride our Devil Ray with a Remora partner down we travel our suction increasing as we descend what a fabulous spinplunge down beside rocky Sea Mounts unlike those skyview dreamtrips this view is open water and when we reach...
Tree When You’re Tall by Alan Bern
This piece can also be found on Dark Winter Press and Literary Magazine “TREE when you're tall, now reach up high,” the librarian calls out, jumping up in his sandals just a little bit, possibly a bare half-inch, wearing dress short pants, light green. All the kids...
in memory of Manlio Rossi-Doria, 1905-1988
in memory of Manlio Rossi-Doria, 1905-1988, anti-fascist prisoner of Mussolini, agricultural economist, and senator Manlio, welcome back, Bud, your skull from the wall out to my elbow, you were short, Bud, in dreamed quatrains, I’ve missed you these three decades...
San Franceso
1315, Master of Saint Cecelia San Francesco, you are so small,head in a simple halohands pierced in prayer upto Maria and her one son.As a toddler, Gesú is a small adultholding a colored birdmaking a two-fingered signacross her bosomy chest. • Francesco, holding the...