Category Archives: Explications

Explications of poems

Seeing, Perceiving, Knowing

Seeing, Perceiving, Knowing
Seeing An axe lays on a table beneath a tree. You can recognize the object as made of steel and wood, has a particular shape for cutting. You may even experience it by holding it and carving on the table with it. You can see past the object’s immediate purpose, its functionality, and enjoy the…
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Persimmon

summer's last moonlight–– / a persimmon half-naked / beneath a leaf Hermitage A Haiku Journal Volume III 2006 The Equinox and Solstice dates were favorite times for writing. On a favorite trail in Tennessee there was a lone persimmon tree near a mountain top. On the equinox night and day length are the same, now the turning…
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Rain Within Rain

       Rain as muse has been key to this body of work. Water is a point of contact between realms, a conduit of the astral plane, and in motion, the essence of Presence. Imagine two world views; one where rain is a random occurrence, and the other where it is an act of consciousness.…
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whose voice…?

Listen! from the mouth of this tree ––whose voice? Implied in this question is that there is something we hear beyond what we can see. Like a dream, the song is something we can experience and feel, but cannot hold. Is the tree a vehicle for the song, or is it dreaming the song into existence?…
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