17.10.2025
Rare, the coyote’s shrill bark’s become
as our presence intrudes on theirs.
Nights we suffer from our own noise,
left in peace with the howl of our cares.
https://alteritas.net/pastis/inventory/subdivision/
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Preface
Foreword
Pre-word
Fore-face
lions & tigers
tigers & lions
Storm troopers to wiki
Publish has the same root as publicize
Self-publishing
How the solar system works
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNirzatuZ5j/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
The moon is warm tonight, not breeze
enough to stir the vanes of the wind mills
grouped in groves of their own out beyond
the manicured lawns and stands of palms
which ring this landscaped spa oasis
Inspired by a Nicolai Gumilev poem (Жираф)
https://alteritas.net/pastis/giraffes-at-san-gorgonio/
1968
Quail paella
https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=3586
Route 60 Navajo reservation
I don’t subscribe so can’t read it, but this did remind me of a poem I wrote in 1977. Please forgive my piggy-backing, but the coincidence was almost too much to bear: https://alteritas.net/pastis/inventory/second-vasectomy/
They snipped off my tubes
which promptly grew back.
The heart is fickle,
not gonads so much…
https://alteritas.net/pastis/inventory/second-vasectomy/
https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=1471
A Young Man Loved a Woman
https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=1720
Gallowsong
First night matches
https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=1731
+ german
https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=2186
Temblor
B among the consonants
https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=2576
Still lozeau
https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=2605
Tokens
https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=2635
Revising this lyric has enabled me to stand again on that curb-side of the Boulevard St-Germain, angle Danton, renewing my futile desire for the anonymous woman who stood next to me before crossing through afternoon sunshine towards métro Odéon in late September, 1965.
What is the Good Life?
https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=2752
Chaparral Sunset
https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=2954
Trigger warning haiku
https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=3550
Phänomenologie der Liebe – Pastis @ Bandol
https://alteritas.net/pastis/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Drahtseilkunstler-PDF.pdf
Varnished Truth
Poetry is sometimes too much with us,
always tangling underfoot. Like kudzu
or the parachuting dandelion fluff
we superstitiously disperse with puffs,
https://alteritas.net/pastis/inventory/global-warning/
https://alteritas.net/pastis/chaparral-sunset-2/
Stay Dead , Natalie Shapero
https://www.threads.com/@profjalexanderart/post/DPURkqygGXm?xmt=AQF0rGc5rmA9u3VB6Lh9keDLKvfZwzqU8XYUYnMZY1eaMQ&slof=1
Erich Kơhler (1964. Observations historiques et sociologiques sur la poésie des troubadours, Cahiers de civilisation médiévale, 7: 27-51.
Thoma, Heinz. “POUR UNE SCIENCE HISTORICO-SOCIOLOGIQUE DE LA LITTÉRATURE: Quelques Remarques Sur l’œuvre d’Erich Köhler.” Littérature, no. 43, 1981, pp. 100–15. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23801787. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.
… class conflict between the dispossessed troubadour and the higher nobility, for whom he was
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