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voices out of the West, mostly poetry, personal to planetary
Art writes:
Folks, our dear friend Eduardo Brummel of Salida—
a long-time poetry pal—has suffered a stroke
I wrote this poem for him:
Ritual
Overcast winter morning
sipping smoky lapsang souchong
working in my den at the computer
An email’s bad news like a zen swat
Unexpected. Ed’s in the hospital
after a sudden stroke
I stop. Turn to ritual. Off with the lamps
Light a candle. Love made visible
Watch flickering shadows
like cryptic poems, spirit moths
Listening to the ring of a singing bowl
until my whole being vibrates
The complex scent of a slickrock
arroyo takes me away. I inhale
piñon & pepper, moss & amber
as though in a Paradox gully studded
with the haphazard gems of
old river conglomerate
& breathe out intention
like an aromatic prayer. Like a gentle
healing. Like a flame’s fiercest hug
Hello out there—
Welcome to our second issue of 2024.
Regular visitors and readers will quickly spot that something looks a little different, a new design for this online poetry adventure, simpler we hope, but not just new for the sake of the new. Turns out that the web-site-building program we have been using to craft these pages, has reached what the computer world calls its ‘end of life.’ So we had to look for a new tool to crate this journal. And for the moment it seems we found one. But we haven’t yet translated all our archives, our back issues so to speak, to our new format. So please be patient. All the poems and poets that we have showcased in our first 70 issues, since 2018, should soon be available again to browse and enjoy under the BACK ISSUE link.
In the meantime, thanks for visiting
SageGreenJournal.org
Art Goodtimes
& LIto Tejada-Flores
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