Self-Portrait in a Red Mylar Balloon Tied to a Mailbox
Behind me the remains
of the cinderblock tabernacle
and behind me the west-leaning house
with a red dirt floor
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Buncho
Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) wrote a number of zuihitsu (literary essays) about his pets, of which “Buncho” (1909) is the most delicately crafted. It is the story of a caged bird that was brought to the writer as a companion in his lonely study, but which in the end died of neglect, despite the initial attention it received.
Swans
to the sea
or some lonely pond
or wherever it is
that swans go
The Painter’s House
Well since there’s still light walk around
stand on the porch
cup hands around eyes peering in
Two Ships in the Cosmic Ocean: Reflections During the Viking Missions 1976
When I look at Viking l’s panorama I have an eerie sense that this may be what the Earth looked like before the origin of life-an interesting, reworked, eroded, developed landscape, but one without the transmuting presence of biology.