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Citrus & Green - Softcover

Bellows, Tim

 
9781481743914: Citrus & Green

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I HAVE BET EVERYTHING - my life, my life - on this drifting blue, this one-note sound of burning-silver flute that calls along nerve passageways, calls through my atoms like birds of a kind, shifting, poised in a sky of tears, calculations, laughter, remembered days. - Tim Bellows * A Note by Allegra Jostad Silberstein, Poet Laureate for the city of Davis, CA 2010-2012: "In Tim Bellows' poems, we find a singular brightness--and a willingness to bet his life on the 'one-note sound of burning silver flute' His work ranges from tender spirituality to embracing plants, soil and stone. In spite of occasional 'turquoise confusions' he is willing to risk all to explain the inexplicable. Exploring the musical voice of this poet brings unexpected rewards" * Allegra Jostad Silberstein grew up on a Wisconsin farm and then moved to California in 1963. Her love of poetry began as a child when her mother would recite poems as she worked. In addition to three chapbooks, Silberstein is widely published in journals and is the first Poet Laureate of Davis.

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citrus & green

~ poems ~

By tim bellows

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Copyright © 2013 tim bellows
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ISBN: 978-1-4817-4391-4

Contents

~1~........................................................................
POET'S PERMISSION..........................................................2
FLYING ON I-5 SOUTH........................................................3
LATE FALL BIRDS............................................................4
SLEEPING TOGETHER..........................................................5
DREAMS, HIGH GRASS.........................................................6
MEDITATION, PERFECT AIR—RED DEER RIVER.....................................7
FLIGHTS....................................................................9
REPORTS FROM LI BAI........................................................10
SAYING A TUNE BY THE CHOWCHILLA RIVER......................................11
CAT—DESCRIPTIVE MUSIC......................................................12
A MORNING HOME ALONE.......................................................14
MOOD.......................................................................15
FOLLOW WHISTLING...........................................................16
WAKING INTO WATER, LIGHT AND MUSIC.........................................17
DOING THE SIMPLE THING.....................................................18
ATTRACTIONS OF A FANTAST...................................................20
~2~........................................................................
WE SLIDE THE LAST BOX......................................................24
NEWS CLIP, 1959............................................................25
NORTH SHORE, SIERRA LAKE...................................................26
PRIVATE TALK, LATE DECEMBER................................................27
DESERT TOWN................................................................29
NOTES—WALKING SMALL TOWNS UPSTATE..........................................30
WE COME IN, DOORS SLAM.....................................................32
EXQUISITE IN VIENNA STREETS................................................33
TWO FARM LIVES—STORM TO SUN................................................35
IN THE HALL BATHROOM MY WIFE PULLS HER HAIRDRYER OUT, TELLS ME HER DREAM
WHERE......................................................................
36
WALKING, HE THINKS OF HIS WIFE,............................................37
RAINSTORMS AND A HILL TO CLIMB.............................................38
WALT WHITMAN'S PASSING.....................................................41
MEDITATION AT CAPE COD.....................................................42
SUNDAY MORNING—RED-TINGED..................................................44
JULY MEMORY—MONTEREY.......................................................45
THE CAR HUMS...............................................................46
A BOY TO HIS GIRL—IN FRONT OF HER FRONT DOOR...............................47
THINKING TO YOU AFTER GOOD-BYE.............................................48
VISIT TO THE OLD MAN—ELY, NEVADA...........................................49
SUMMER MARKETPLACE. THAT GIRL'S BARE FEET,.................................51
2 A.M.—YOU ARE NOT THE ONE.................................................52
PROFESSOR BALTZ AND HER POEM OF SNOW, SENIOR YEAR..........................53
HUTS BELOW SMOOTH HILLS....................................................57
~3~........................................................................
FADED MAPS.................................................................62
RADIO SOUND................................................................64
FAIRY-TALE.................................................................66
NIGHT. PASSAGES............................................................67
NERUDA'S BRANCH-TIPS.......................................................68
MEDITATION, RIVERINE—ON A WALK IN THE SIERRAS..............................70
STATE HIGHWAY 108—DRIVING TO HIGH SPHERES..................................73
ANOTHER SUNDAY MORNING.....................................................75
CHINESE FAN—A CHANT........................................................77
TIBET—CONTEMPLATION VISIT..................................................78
CHINESE WINDS..............................................................79
SUMMER NIGHT. MY BOY CUPPING A ROBIN.......................................80
AFTER A MEASURED CUP OF WARMING BRANDY,....................................81
IMPRESSIONS, MENDOCINO AFTERNOON,..........................................83
MORNING, DECEMBER SIXTEENTH................................................84
UNSEEN HAND................................................................86
TESTIMONY..................................................................87
I DRIFT ASLEEP.............................................................88
~4~........................................................................
PARTY, 1971. THE VELVET UNDERGROUND........................................92
SONG IN A STEEP HEADLAND...................................................94
6 A.M.—DRIVING NORTH SUNRISE...............................................96
HERE IN AMERICA............................................................97
CHILD AND SODA.............................................................99
NEW-YORK-CITY COOL AT THE RED LIGHT........................................100
WRITING GOGGLES ON.........................................................102
DANCING IN THIN AIR........................................................103
FRESHMAN THOUGHTS. FIRST DATE..............................................105
RENTER....

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