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Big Numbers, Small Us

Rolf's Poems and Pictures Posted on June 14, 2020 by Rolf StavigDecember 1, 2020

Big Numbers, Small Us Mathematics called to little pains and wind, The best flowers of a season’s expectation calling, Called, backing up into the story. The arrivals of the old brood pushed up in the tides, Taken back out over … Continue reading →

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Splayed

Rolf's Poems and Pictures Posted on June 13, 2020 by Rolf StavigDecember 1, 2020

Splayed Such speaking of things, their mute origins,  presence in the morning Sitting on a table like a bowl. Like music on the air,  travails wash up the gulley sides with detritus of the flood. The thunder and night almost … Continue reading →

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Plop of the Precipice

Rolf's Poems and Pictures Posted on May 30, 2020 by Rolf StavigDecember 1, 2020

Plop of the Precipice The day she rose in heat and flames, same as ever, as ever dripping with new birth. Some One’s inside writ large, itself a microcosm within a macrocosm of self,  universes with no end. Her crinkled … Continue reading →

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Time in Time

Rolf's Poems and Pictures Posted on May 30, 2020 by Rolf StavigDecember 1, 2020

A time out of time, just in time,Time for time to take up lutes, harps and a clavichord,To hold the fiddle just below chinCrooked to shoulder neck space for the body of theLittle wooden beauty to tune with the bees … Continue reading →

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The Fate of Our Mating

Rolf's Poems and Pictures Posted on May 26, 2020 by Rolf StavigMay 26, 2020

The Fate of our Mating Sought out in safety for so long,  Putting pins in dolls, mesmerizing with chicken blood the sinister plagues and the destitution of not having enough water. The great melt and die off is on. A … Continue reading →

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Lustre

Rolf's Poems and Pictures Posted on May 24, 2020 by Rolf StavigMay 24, 2020

Lustre  The great tickle of interiority fixing the view  As contemplation fixes nothing, A good rest, a meal and some sleep, Such are the fixes of humility and the  rails of air in the terrible sand. Who broke this rut … Continue reading →

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Part of Us

Rolf's Poems and Pictures Posted on May 24, 2020 by Rolf StavigMay 24, 2020

Part of Us Wind of us Through us  Down around the bend of us, Finally not about us at all. But of course, we are the instrument that brought us seeking, Weeping joy at the moment, at its indifference and … Continue reading →

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Hill of Ablution

Rolf's Poems and Pictures Posted on May 24, 2020 by Rolf StavigMay 24, 2020

You are good me, bad me, proud me, sound of me, sick of me. I want the out, of you, I want out of me. A time of motion, breath, mountain air. Pride goes the Fall, the open mouth of … Continue reading →

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Find a Song

Rolf's Poems and Pictures Posted on May 19, 2020 by Rolf StavigMay 19, 2020

Find a Song The broad boulevard of the people decorated, festooned As if a jungle In neglect could bloom such ideas. Weeding the flim flam and dross we came up dripping wet  With birth songs of a far shore So shining … Continue reading →

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Symbiotic Symbol

Rolf's Poems and Pictures Posted on May 15, 2020 by Rolf StavigMay 15, 2020

Symbiotic Symbol Great things come of all relation,  patient as the coastline with its waves,  sure as leaf edges, quantum and the clouds. We puzzled out a part for sitting down together and having some food, cleaning up before and … Continue reading →

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