A n n e   W a l d m a n :   K e e p i n g   T h e   W o r l d   S a f e   F o r   P o e t r y

N a p a l m   H e a l t h   S p a :   R e p o r t   2 0 1 5 :   S p e c i a l   E d i t i o n

 

 

TIM ATKINS

 

 

No Sound But the Motors & the Inner Motors Running on Time Even Intervals of

Breath In Out In Out I Sit Alive & Awake etc & Write You a Sonnet Whose Breath is

Warm Loving Whose Death is Tired Mind Sonnet

 

 

Impossible to put anything down, Anne what—

You are so     Interests        you  the moon  the act

Across “the skin of the world  A Buddhist

Sniffs the air  the way a poet  writes,

We just sit with     this lineage!

Alice  Eleni & Barbara Guest

Do not confuse the nose that points at the smell

With the smell itself.     Was this your silent

Transmission    one day in July

Standing there in the road

 by the Varsity

Apartments     Satori!   the    fourth person plural

The basic poetics

Resists