poem – Page 19 – Dave Olson's Creative Life Archive

Cemetary Afterall

March 13, 2006

Terraced footsteps hills for wooden stairs cobbles arranged by someone slip slip into graves candles burning flowers wilting an empty […]

March 13, 2006

Oh Napoleon in your caskets why did you hafta mess it up? It’s not that i’ve reason to care here

March 13, 2006

Drinking beers from Bruges to Paris “ah you like good beer” he says in halted words punching ticket in boxy

March 13, 2006

Si si si you’d say and disappear through a door me looking – finding you alight and aflitter anxious to

March 13, 2006

Red roofs falling cliff high into foaming waves the signs say no tractors or this way to ferries Old man

March 13, 2006

Skin of bright olives, quizzical eyes reflection flashing on a bike with bread or books cold on rocky step ledge

March 13, 2006

We’ll die apart with secrets intact you winking to the end me twitching my nose an arboretum afternoon english bay

August 20, 2004

Mt. Neahkahnie overlooks Manzanita, Oregon. I climbed the mountain with watercolour and stationery in tow to write a letter for