thinker lit mag

Numbers and Figures

thinkerlitmag — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:28:25 +0000

Windmill

thinkerlitmag — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:24:47 +0000

Love Kaleidoscope

thinkerlitmag — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:15:11 +0000

The Road Away

thinkerlitmag — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:10:25 +0000

I tried to walk the streets

I tread when I was young,

stopping time and again

reviewing what’s been done

remembered where and when

the dreams I keep were born

and began to comprehend

where yesterday had gone.

I had not remained to watch

the changes going on

and now on my return

there was emptiness, not song.

The roads had all diverged

and taken everything along,

and I was just one traveler now

and very far from home.

Student Self Portrait, 2010

thinkerlitmag — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:51:03 +0000

Library Still Life

thinkerlitmag — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:37:44 +0000

Blue Leaf Kaleidoscope

thinkerlitmag — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:15:01 +0000

The trouble with poetry …

thinkerlitmag — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:20:24 +0000

(answering Billy Collins’ poem by the same name)

I realized after reading your poem

how small my fish tank is

and how I forget to care for it

on account of having to deal

with bankers who are real sharks.

I wish I had rabbits right now.

And knew enough to care for them.

And knew how to sell them

like your poetry book

that I have in my hands.

I know of your urges

and I have broken in tonight

to share with you

a memory of summer asphalt

cooled by a fire hydrant

spitting through a tin cylinder

knocking over laughing

children who never saw

a lighthouse or dewy grass.

I stole that from no one.

But I know what you mean

about secretly wanting an end.

Pink Still Life

thinkerlitmag — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:45:35 +0000

Elephants

thinkerlitmag — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:07:59 +0000