{"id":2178,"date":"2025-10-08T14:45:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T21:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/?p=2178"},"modified":"2025-10-08T14:48:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T21:48:23","slug":"selected-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2025\/10\/08\/selected-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Selected Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"

Publish has the root as publicize
\n<\/span>Self-publishing<\/span><\/p>\n

How the solar system works<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DNirzatuZ5j\/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The moon is warm tonight, not breeze
\n<\/span>enough to stir the vanes of the wind mills
\n<\/span>grouped \u00a0in groves of their own out beyond
\n<\/span>the manicured lawns and stands of palms
\nwhich <\/span>\u00a0ring this landscaped spa oasis<\/span><\/p>\n

Inspired by a Nicolai Gumilev poem (\u0416\u0438\u0440\u0430\u0444<\/span><\/a><\/span>)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/giraffes-at-san-gorgonio\/<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

1968
\n<\/span>Quail paella<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=3586<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Route 60 Navajo reservation <\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t subscribe so can\u2019t 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\/<\/span><\/p>\n

They snipped off my tubes<\/span><\/p>\n

which promptly grew back. <\/span><\/p>\n

The heart is fickle,<\/span><\/p>\n

not gonads so much\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/inventory\/second-vasectomy\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=1471<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

A Young Man Loved a Woman<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=1720<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Gallowsong<\/span><\/p>\n

First night matches <\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=1731<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

+ german \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=2186<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Temblor<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/span>B among the consonants<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=2576<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Still lozeau<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=2605<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Tokens <\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=2635<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Revising this lyric\u00a0 <\/span>has enabled\u00a0me 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 m\u00e9tro Od\u00e9on in late September, 1965.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the Good Life?<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=2752<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Chaparrral Sunseti<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=2954<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Trigger warning haiku<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=3550<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

Ph\u00e4nomenologie der Liebe \u2013 Pastis @ Bandol<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Drahtseilkunstler-PDF.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Varnished Truth<\/span><\/p>\n

Poetry is sometimes too much with us,<\/span><\/p>\n

always tangling underfoot. Like kudzu<\/span><\/p>\n

or the parachuting dandelion fluff<\/span><\/p>\n

we superstitiously disperse\u00a0with\u00a0puffs,<\/span><\/p>\n

poetry goes wild, turns weed\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/inventory\/global-warning\/<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/chaparral-sunset-2\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Stay Dead , Natalie Shapero <\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@profjalexanderart\/post\/DPURkqygGXm?xmt=AQF0rGc5rmA9u3VB6Lh9keDLKvfZwzqU8XYUYnMZY1eaMQ&slof=1 <\/span><\/p>\n

Erich K\u01a1hler (1964. Observations historiques et sociologiques sur la po\u00e9sie des troubadours, Cahiers de civilisation m\u00e9di\u00e9vale, 7: 27-51.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thoma, Heinz. \u201cPOUR UNE SCIENCE HISTORICO-SOCIOLOGIQUE DE LA LITT\u00c9RATURE: Quelques Remarques Sur l\u2019\u0153uvre d\u2019Erich K\u00f6hler.\u201d <\/span>Litt\u00e9rature<\/span>,\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>no. 43, 1981, pp. 100\u201315. <\/span>JSTOR<\/span>, http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/23801787. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n

… class conflict between the dispossessed troubadour and the higher nobility, for whom he was <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Publish has the 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 \u00a0in groves of their own out beyond the manicured lawns and stands of palms which \u00a0ring this landscaped spa oasis Inspired by a Nicolai Gumilev … <\/p>\n

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