Inlets, Southbound
Hazy morning bound for familiar (once) inlets — Eld, Steamboat, Budd — passing tangled roads & eroded forests towards the smallest town I know […]
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Cascadian Byways
Are no Stranger
Death, You are No Stranger
Sometime, as a child A great uncle, a small suit Staring into a larger hole Remembering the smells forever Sometimes
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Are no Stranger
Troop us Away Then
Ready for marching orders. Troop us away then! We’ll follow in the full moonlight “Your dossiers are in order” says
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Are no Stranger
Alchemists Confer with Hypnotists
Varying days of bliss and malaise I’m busy these days chasing dubbies away When the ache nears the break and
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Shoebox
Shifting Latitudes
Shifting latitudes Bound for healing waters Sandy ground of characters, fishers & saints Likely incommunicado Holding storymaking tools
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Vancouver Grey
en route to the Matsuri
En route to the matsuri in Japantown the Asahis are playing and they’re carrying that golden shrine around to the
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Varley at Jericho (poem)
I see! The two swimmers, heads bobbing way out there beyond the buoysVarley, solid after a bottle of redwith gaggle
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Held the Globe (for Gramps)
I’ve Held the Globe – Poetry Cycle for Ole Gramps
I’ve Held the Globe – A Poetry Cycle for Ole Dead Gramps from Dave Olson Published on Apr 25, 2014
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Vancouver Grey
“Bay of Flashing Darters” in bentlily | One poem a day
Dave Thorvald Olson | Samantha’s daily poem | bentlily | One poem a day. BAY OF FLASHING DARTERS Sailboats carving
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Gone to Sea
Depth Perception, Collected Freeverse by Dave Olson
Depth Perception – Collected Freeverse Poetry (chapbook) from Dave Olson
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Requited
Night Lake Diving
freshly skinny white leaping from the storm the 2AM moonlight fractures with the impact the rocks below clarified by the
Vancouver Grey
Bay of Flashing Darters
Sailboats carving patterns darters into waves which seem unimpressed Leaning over sideways to control both power and time Flocking into
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Vancouver Grey
handy for crabbing
The dock extends further to make the crabs easier to capture
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Vancouver Grey
Waiting at Jericho
Green hulled sleeper lulls along the darters and sunnyday foghorn Sailors waiting papers aren’t order sandwiches and waiting waiting, watching
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Gone to Sea
Porch Supper, Briefly
palm frond palypa red snapper grill-marked smoking peppers rolled with twigs
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Shoebox
Mexican Hammer and Nails
anticipating buying the claw hammer in Bucerias i’d learned 2 Spanish words in advance the boy, 14-ish shaggy haired “do
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