All This Is That

By Jack Brummet Four hundred and forty-thousand Moons ago, Li Po sits Drinking wine on a bluff. The Sun fades into blue mountai...

By Jack Brummet Grey light pools On the floor in the distance. A green knight walks toward you, A battle-axe in one hand A...

By Jack Brummet The mountain is the youngest child Of heaven and earth, Striving ever upward And simultaneously tumbling down, Like t...

By Jack Brummet I n a pale grey fog, I see the ghosts Of ancient Helleniki mariners Sailing phantom steamships, sloops, Pra...

By Jack Brummet A flight of swallows Spins outside the window. One by one, The stars turn on And the yellow sun Transmogrifie...

By Jack Brummet We cover the earth With Venn Diagrams As our steps Bisect old steps.     ---o0o---

By Jack Brummet This is a favorite small poem  by A.E. Housman that has always stuck with me. . . “The thoughts of ot...

In honor of our son Del's graduation tomorrow night, here is a movie of a spontaneous poem Del created when he was about six years old...

T he absence of facts Further inflames The conspiracy theory: The missing facts Point to the utter and diabolical Efficacy of the cover-up. ...

[Provisional? Maybe it is done. . .nor sure. . .sometimes means that if/when the real poem emerges, it may include only two lines or all of ...

Cover of the last supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog - click to enlarge Ken Kesey contributed this poem (among his other curious contribu...

1. With every hesitation, Trouble widens. The dragon is unleashed. You won’t begin what needs to begin Because you’re searching For a sign. ...

Silhouetted against blue bisque skies, Crows bounce on snow-draped tree branches, Shaking powder to the ground. They survey the valley For t...

This snippet is from a longer poem by the Victorian poet A.E. Housman, written in the 1890's. I've noticed this poem quoted a lot ...

Robo -poet is a cut-up style poetry generator (cut-ups are a form "popularized" by William Burroughs and Brion Gysin ). Clearly ...

Chart courtesy or NASA - click to enlarge 1 We could hold together, Like the water Covers this sweet green sphere, And eventually become A b...

T he rain falls As you practice arpeggios Running out shimmering notes In an ever-shifting Pattern of music sifting Through the caesuras bet...

I f he steps back The whole machine Wheels past in a blur. Some nights he jettisons What is left of his soul Out into the void And it dogpad...

[I started this poem 21 years ago in Berkeley, California, the week before my daughter was born. I finished it tonight, in Irvine, Californi...

C edar, cypress, juniper mulberry, buckeye, Gingko, hickory, ironwood, magnolia, persimmon, Paw paw, pussy willow, sassafrass, Sumac, tupelo...