Things I Feel I Ought To Confess the first line I write is something about the way your hair blows over a pair of jackets the leather one in your author’s photo and the one that cradles your first book of poems but just as I am patting myself on the back for being oh […]
Old Soldiers Never Die
Old Soldiers Never Die We’re all old soldiers, Yet we’re young forever, creating poetry. Writing down the first stanza, I remembered a Chinese soldier His foot was injured in a battle Every day in the march His foot was frozen in low temperature At night, His companions knocked down the ice […]
At the Nepal Event
At the Nepal Event for Carl and Lana with gratitude Scarfe 100, cavernous, near empty in July (where my teen ensembles once performed social justice plays for secondary teacher candidates) – At this Nepal Event, I sit in the upper back row with colleagues: words of poetic meaning from younger students’ pens echo through a […]
Wings, wings, wings
Wings, wings, wings A pleasant breeze of light Choose your path Breath, breath, Breath Always gentle Always kind Always there Wings, wings, wings by Gus Weltsek
An Eternity of Words
An Eternity of Words For Carl Leggo I had thoughts. But no voice. I had a world. But no words I knew how to write poems. But I was no poet I knew you. But never met you. I met your poems Before I met you. One day In my PhD course readings. I landed […]
Carl, beloved man-about-words
Carl, beloved man-about-words here we are Where might I find myself today had you not proposed while tossing your hair and, simultaneously, looking out your office window into the leaves of a passing tree that I ruminate on “how you came to be this teacher” When did I realize that we were embarking on a […]
Bohm (1980) Travestied
Bohm (1980) Travestied Any such formative cause must evidently have been present before the notion of measure of the word ‘implicit’ in such an attempt to divide what is thought, or in other phases of what is not. To say this is, at the verb ‘to think’, so that literally, ‘res’ is based on the […]
Kizuna Song
絆：KIZUNA Song, Yoriko Gillard by Yoriko Gillard Click on title above to view poem
A Poem for Carl
A Poem for Carl I open the paper you sent me, lingering over the flow of words Placed together in ways beyond my imagination A poet speaks to me again, like he has in the past Like when you introduced me to how to think about technology From a German perspective Or how […]
give me poetry
give me poetry that shades the mind like fine rain give me poetry that murmurs prayers from the dark earth poetry where you walk beneath the linden trees poetry where we lie as close as possible as air and breath by Ted Blodgett (unpublished) Contributed by Ingrid Johnston Carl, you’ve given […]
Poem-a-Day for Carl Leggo 