Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Two more poems being translated into French

Marie de Montpellier (in France) is translating two more of my poems into French.  She's already done two others.  Her current choices are one from Desire ("Forgetting You") and one from Counting Fingers, Smelting Light ("Remembering Ricky").  I am very excited, pleased and honored.  YAY!  :-D  Woohoo!

Friday, June 18, 2010

First IPad Poem

If

What if, instead of dying flowers, perfume
smelled like mountaintops, like granite

and fir-filtered wind?  Breezes lift our feet
from the rock and fragrance-scented air

buoys us up over golden rows of mountains.
You laugh like a child taking his first step

out onto the taut surface of water
and instead of sinking, we skate

on that tensile surface that quivers
like my heart when you reach

the long pin feathers of your wings
and wrap them all light and tickle

and remember around me.



Mary Stebbins Taitt
for Keith
first poem on Ipad,
1000618-1557-2b(3), 100617