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Mar.28.2009
Red Rose of Lancaster, White Rose of York, Rose de Meaux, Painted Damask, Gloire de Dijon, Purple Pavement, Alba, Pourpre, Rosa Gallica Officinalis, Abbaya de Cluny, Madame Isaac Pereire, Marmalade Skies, Rosa Rugosa Rubra, Mousseline, Rosa Souvenir de Malmaison, dog rose, briar rose, backyard rose...
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Mar.14.2009
Flip flop to the bookstore to buy my poor dog a bone. Scimitar-like eucalyptus leaves on the sidewalk. What is this crow-inherited urge to stop and pick one up and carry it on the rest of the journey? Chestnuts, the shiny kind, on the way to school. Nice shiny paper clips, or trombones as they...
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Mar.08.2009
Names are haunting, they haunt me. They are used, they don’t become part of any generality, they don’t serve a cause, they don’t want to submit to any simple, general, common rule, they don’t want to be broken down and grow longer and more flexible and change and turn around and act in such a way...
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Mar.02.2009
It is raining harder. Out of the corner of my left eye I see the drops flash off the leaves of the bushes that grow against the window and touch the glass. Hundreds of drops that cling an instant to the branch, twig or leaf, and then free-fall past the window to the ground I cannot see, where an...
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Mar.01.2009
It is raining on the condo roof, it is raining on the flat roofs of the carports, it is raining in the puddles that are sitting on the flat roofs of the carports, it is raining on the deck, and on the table and chairs that are sitting on the deck, it is raining on my neighbors' hummingbird feeder...
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Feb.26.2009
2 eggs, half a bar of chocolate, homemade marmelade, baking soda; cheeseboard with leftover roquefort and goat cheese, pot with leftover roast of pork; plastic bag of lettuce, 2 pieces of fennel; small green onions, 5 carrots, two large yellow onions, 1 1/3 cucumbers, 2/3 red bell pepper; 4 Roma...
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Feb.15.2009
Empty Pan chun tea-box sewing kit: scissors, packet of needles, pyjama button, spools of thread (black, white, dove grey, red, green, sea blue, electric blue, plum, maroon, lemon, forsythia), shirt buttons (two, white), tape measure, one needle threaded with brown thread, straight pins, safety...
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Feb.08.2009
JJs, Mollie Stone, Safeway, Andronico's, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, JJs, Draegers, Starlite Supermarket, Costco, Chavez, JJs, Onestop, Miyabi, Save Mart, S-O-S, JJs, Sunrise.
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Feb.06.2009
Redwood, eucalyptus, loquat, mimosa, lemon, kumquat, orange, apple, redwood, magnolia, cedar, apple, fig, tangerine, fir, sequoia, eucalyptus, grapefruit, redwood, redwood.
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Feb.04.2009
I found Enzensberger's poem, "The Great Goddess," in a collection of his poems called "Lighter than Air" (Bloodaxe, 2002), translated by David Constantine and, in the case of a few poems, including "The Great Goddess," by Enzensberger.
The Great...
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Feb.02.2009
Here's another poem, a whole one this time from The Tree House. I love its simple myth-making, which reminds me of a poem about an old woman darning by the German poet, Hans Magnus Enzensberger; I'll have to see if I can find Enzensberger's poem--also three quartrains, as I recall--on the internet...
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Feb.01.2009
I've been reading Kathleen Jamie's 2004 book of poems, "The Tree House" (Picador, London). Here's the first stanza of "The Glass-hulled Boat": First come the jelly-fish: / mauve-fringed, luminous bowls / like lost internal organs, / pulsing and slow./
Jamie writes a lot about...
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Jan.30.2009
Hedge funds, bankers, bonuses, stimulus, debt, "How Will the U.S. Pay For All Those Dollars?" oversight, confidence, Wall Street, banks, capital, bailout, claw-back, sub-prime, phantom profits, "Advertisers have to strike a delicate balance this year," "burnish corporate...
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Jan.19.2009
Take one orange, one lemon and one grapefruit, smush in a blender. Add water and let sit over night. The next day boil for 10 minutes. The following day boil for two hours. Add sugar, 50-50. Cook until thick. Something like that...I have three small pots, and dole out small portions onto my...
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Jan.04.2009
Walked up to the Dish this afternoon: sunny, bright, cold, the joggers out, the families, the joggers-with-strollers. An hour and a half door-to-door, walking, that is. When we reached the Dish, we leaned against the fence and caught our breath and looked at the 360 degree view: San Francisco...
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About beverley
BEVERLEY BIE BRAHIC was born in Canada, and lives in Paris and Stanford, California. A translator and poet, her work has appeared in Field, Literary Imagination, Notre Dame Review, Oxford Poetry, PN Review, Poetry, The Times Literary Supplement, and...