I wrote these list poems earlier, but I’ll debut them here. I quite like both of them, I think, though I’m not sure how cohesively I’m using the medium.

“Things I Don’t Know What To Do With”, James Bowden

“Diary Entry #821: Ars Quotidiana”, James Bowden

And now the daily poems browsed.

“[Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil’s palm]”, Luther Hughes

“Moments”, Mary Oliver

This reminds me of Dermot Kennedy this time around more than it has before. His song, Moments Passed, but also this line he has in Shelter that goes don’t get caught up in caution when love exists which I tried to live by for some time before and during Rachel.

“Dogfish”, Mary Oliver

Jenny shared this with me in an attempt to show me list poems. Pretty good tone, but that’s just Mary.

“The Months (September)”, Linda Pastan

Confusing because she has a poem just called September, but see under September here. I like the relationship metaphor. All we have is transience. I was thinking earlier how I probably did not really appreciate everything in the moment with Kristine as much as I’d have liked to, as much as I do in retrospect now. And maybe this is just how it always is, but I feel I probably could have been more present in an aware way. Which I’m not entirely sure how to implement, because you can be present and enjoy without really savoring it, which is what I think I was doing. But it’s something else to be present and sort of thinking in a positive way and appreciating transience as it passes out of your hands.