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Begun Again

Rolf's Poems and Pictures Posted on March 30, 2025 by Rolf StavigMarch 30, 2025

  Awake and barely a notion still breathing from sleep’s satiny wings, The lids boiling water on the stove transforming our liquid to steam. We all pass away. What of it on a beautiful Spring morning, An everlasting of briefness, … Continue reading →

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A Thousand Pounds Sterling

Rolf's Poems and Pictures Posted on March 30, 2025 by Rolf StavigMarch 30, 2025

  It reflects nothing of you, me, The something deeper also a shade shying away like a light in the night. Equivalencies of relevancy as the tuna on the line, the last of her kind, The King already chum in … Continue reading →

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Roller Coaster of Dilletantes and Fetishists

Rolf's Poems and Pictures Posted on March 30, 2025 by Rolf StavigMarch 30, 2025

    Dilettantes and fetishists await the turn of patience with shiny things the crowd might leave like a steel hoop at a construction site, a barrel wrap, a passage back to how things went from then to now.   … Continue reading →

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Slightly Swollen

Rolf's Poems and Pictures Posted on March 30, 2025 by Rolf StavigMarch 30, 2025

  Gonna have to and then some To get over the hump of myself and on To some greater or lesser spoils, Like age or compost, Fermentation or relaxation of our cellular bonds, our systems, our ideas. The Greater Antilles … Continue reading →

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Marina

Rolf's Poems and Pictures Posted on March 30, 2025 by Rolf StavigMarch 30, 2025

Marina That little blue sustenance, cheated on all sides, brought low as water does, finding the common rut. The river swells its bank. The cello is mournful with a girl holding it tenderly open as a chest. Heart strung, laundry … Continue reading →

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Mayakovski’s Reservation

Rolf's Poems and Pictures Posted on March 30, 2025 by Rolf StavigMarch 30, 2025

  The temptations of light and roses blooming in the morning Giving some snow on the garden another name, another Harmony of cycles and contribution from our mother, Nature. Her indenture was never to us, Traveling so widely like the … Continue reading →

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Rain in the Lake

Rolf's Poems and Pictures Posted on March 30, 2025 by Rolf StavigMarch 30, 2025

Latitude, levity, the ability to raise up an army of rain from the sea, Cross mountains and snow down on the high terraces and everywhere cold enough to sustain you.  To maintain you, great deity, As the earth still holds … Continue reading →

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Going Out

Rolf's Poems and Pictures Posted on March 30, 2025 by Rolf StavigMarch 30, 2025

  What could be more perfect, The sunlight pouring down, Predictable as the birds return From God knows where. Her little secrets safe In a thousand million bodies on the wing. None lasting but Semblances past and projects not born … Continue reading →

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Recollection of Our Considerations

Rolf's Poems and Pictures Posted on March 30, 2025 by Rolf StavigMarch 30, 2025

  Diaspora of the leaves now, The chased and harassed As the wet always breaks To something lower, seeping Toward the center of the earth For reassurance. We are still here, Carrying the heavy lids of fatigue And the suitcases … Continue reading →

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Discerned by Blake

Rolf's Poems and Pictures Posted on March 30, 2025 by Rolf StavigMarch 30, 2025

    Where time began her travels, Among her peoples, wrapped In shawls on an ocean, A raft of music naming the generations For misfits of gnomes and gashes of genius Left over from volcanoes in the garden, The creeper … Continue reading →

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