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Tag Archives: cosmology
This Way and That
I’m not here to tell you just how the days must flow. They will flow as they will, as water down any grade; Not because it seeks a slope but because one is there. And the stream is dark in … Continue reading
Theology
These gods you chase into the gaps? Nothing. Nothing between atoms. Nothing under the bed.
Posted in Astrophysics, Atheism, Cinquain, Cosmology, Delusional thinking, Desperation, Epistemology, Evolutionary Psychology, Fanaticism, John MacKenzie, John MacKenzie Poetry, Micropoetry, New poems, Physics, Poem tweets, Poetry, Religion, Science, Theology
Tagged astrophysics, atheism, cinquain, cosmology, delusional thinking, desperation, epistemology, Evolutionary Psychology, fanaticism, John MacKenzie, John MacKenzie poetry, micropoetry, new poems, physics, poem tweets, poetry, religion, science, Theology
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While the Wind Tangles Your Hair
I want to sit with you in the shade While the wind tangles your hair Listening to you talk of things that exist Listening to you talk about the spectrum The spectrum on which things are portrayed The arbitrary nature … Continue reading
Posted in Art is lies, Art is theft, Consciousness, Cosmology, Couplets, Epistemology, John MacKenzie, John MacKenzie Poetry, New poems, Physics, Poem tweets, Poetry, Science, The Brain, The Rain, The Sky, The Wind, Time
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The Moon Turns Over and Over—As a Song
Michael Leon occasionally puts to music my attempts at writing songlike things, as he’s done with this piece I wrote last fall (lyrics here). The simple (but perhaps overly busy) video portion must be blamed solely on me as I … Continue reading
Posted in Art is theft, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Collaboration, Cosmology, Country music, Country song, Emma Tibaldo, Gravity, Hank Williams, John MacKenzie, Memory, Michael Leon, Music, Poetry, Process, Science, Space, The Moon, The Sky, Time
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Let Great Wings Descend
Morning and evening clocks constrict the day. If time must be measured measure it by when The blue heron’s shadow darkens the bay. Do not appoint an hour in which to play At work or work at love, sleep or … Continue reading
Posted in Astrophysics, Blue Heron, Cosmology, Epistemology, John MacKenzie, Language, New poems, Poem tweets, Poetry, The Moon, The Sea, The Sky, Tide, Time
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The Moon Turns Over and Over
I’m gone out walking in moonlight With yesterday’s dew in a flask To count all the stars above me. They’re the questions I’ve never asked. The moon turns over and over, It’s a coin I’ve tossed in the sky. But … Continue reading
Posted in Art is lies, Cosmology, Country music, Country song, John MacKenzie, Language, New poems, Poem tweets, Poetry, The Moon, The Sky, Time
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Count Up the Things That’ll Always Be (The Entropy of Bitter Coffee, a country song)
It was long after midnight when I heard you knock ‘Cause you couldn’t get your goddamn key in the lock. I didn’t say nothing when I let you in But the coffee this morning’s as bitter as sin. Chorus We met … Continue reading
Posted in Art is lies, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Country music, Country song, Crows, Gravity, John MacKenzie, Memory, New poems, Poem tweets, Poetry, Social Commentary, The Moon, The Sky, Time
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Vanishing Point (Little Sands, PEI)
I was sent a fine, short, dark image the other day about stillness in Little Sands. It precipitated this poem since I have felt at the water that sort of stillness that seems both complete and empty at once. I think it … Continue reading
Posted in Art is lies, Art is theft, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Epistemology, Ghazal, Gravity, John MacKenzie, Little Sands, New poems, Poem tweets, Poetry, Process, Science, Space, Summer, The Moon, The Sky, Tide, Time
Tagged art is lies, art is theft, astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, epistemology, ghazal, gravity, John MacKenzie, John MacKenzie poetry, Little Sands, new poems, poem tweets, poetry, process, science, space, Summer, the moon, the sky, tide, time
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Behind the Dance of Moon
Maybe tonight you will hear how the stars whisper behind the dance of moon tangling seaweed
Posted in Astrophysics, Cinquain, Cosmology, Gravity, John MacKenzie, Language, Micropoetry, New poems, Poem tweets, Poetry, Science, Summer, The Moon, Tide, Time
Tagged astrophysics, cinquain, cosmology, gravity, John MacKenzie, John MacKenzie poetry, Language, micropoetry, new poems, poem tweets, poetry, science, Summer, the moon, tide, time
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Between the Lines
The crows are constant scrawls There above fields of dandelions Pushing up, yellow, indecipherable, Swaying in the wind of starlings’ wings. Sometimes at evening a raven calls At the edge of the bonefield sky Eroding till the first quarter of … Continue reading
Posted in Art is lies, Astrophysics, Chemistry, Cosmology, Crows, Epistemology, John MacKenzie, New poems, Poem tweets, Poetry, Quatrains, Ravens, Science, Space, The Moon, The Sea, The Sky, The Wind
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Video reading of Another Year in the Minors
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Posted in Art is lies, Astrophysics, Baseball, Cosmology, John MacKenzie, Physics, Poetry, Sabermetrics, Time, Video poetry
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Another Year in the Minors
April Between pitches, the left fielder counts the green threading slow through last year’s yellow grass May Behind him the lilacs shiver at his passage, scent each throw back to the infield with desire June Scuffing his toes at the … Continue reading
Posted in Art is lies, Autumn, Baseball, Cosmology, Gravity, John MacKenzie, Language, Lilacs, Mathematics, Memory, Minor league baseball, New poems, Physics, Poem tweets, Poetry, Sabermetrics, Space, Spring, Summer, The Sky
Tagged art is lies, Autumn, baseball, cosmology, gravity, John MacKenzie, John MacKenzie poetry, Language, lily pond, mathematics, memory, minor league baseball, new poems, physics, poem tweets, poetry, sabermetrics, space, spring, Summer, the sky
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Video reading of The Winter Wings of Gulls (sestina)
The Winter Wings of Gulls I’ve been meaning to make an actual video of this sestina (video above, text below), rather than just me reading it at home. I even shot some stuff for it last fall in various places, … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Charlottetown, Cosmology, Gravity, Gulls, Harbour, Hillsborough River, John MacKenzie, Memory, Poetry, Sestina, Space, The Sky, Time, Video poetry
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Before the Long Night
A hasty double tanka. Before the Long Night Mid-afternoon moon, half-full, standing stiff-postured high in the southeast— before the long night is done you’ll be slouching west like me, sway-backed, slope-shouldered, and inclined to laughter at our attempts to slow … Continue reading
Posted in Art is lies, Cosmology, Death, Gravity, John MacKenzie, New poems, Poem tweets, Poetry, Tanka, The Moon, Time
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Spray Light Now Across Black
Much the way I watch stars spray light now across black, in long arcs bent by gravity’s lens, as a child I watched sparks from welding rods each time the welder dipped his grey, long dark-eyed head to run his … Continue reading
Posted in Art is lies, Atheism, Consciousness, Cosmology, Epistemology, Gravity, John MacKenzie, Memory, New poems, Poem tweets, Poetry, Science, Time
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Thin Dry Spruce
In January blizzards, with the wind out of the northwest for days bringing poles down on the County Line Road, he’d load the wood stove with slabs, thin dry spruce, sit in the dark, deaf to the constant gunfire crack … Continue reading
Posted in Art is lies, Cosmology, Death, John MacKenzie, Korean War, New poems, Poem tweets, Poetry, Poverty, Protest poems, Social Commentary, Space, The Sky, The Wind, Veterans, War, War poems, Winter
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November Evening Quatrains
Fever Ray—Keep the Streets Empty For Me November Evening Quatrains Here’s what happens. The planet spins into night. The wind blows leaves round in a circle under the stars’ ageing light. Over the harbour, the darkness hiding its white … Continue reading
Posted in Art is lies, Art is theft, Autumn, Charlottetown, Cosmology, Fever Ray, Gulls, Harbour, John MacKenzie, Language, New poems, Poem tweets, Poetry, Quatrains, Space, The Earth, The Moon, The Sea, Time, Winter
Tagged art is lies, art is theft, Autumn, Charlottetown, cosmology, Fever Ray, gulls, harbour, John MacKenzie, John MacKenzie poetry, Language, new poems, poem tweets, poetry, quatrains, space, the earth, the moon, the sea, time, winter
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The Red Tambourines of Deep October
Last night at work I saw a friend leaving with her red tambourine under her arm and said, “The woman with the red tambourine. Thought for a second, and added, “That should be a song—there’s the title, you should write … Continue reading
Posted in Art is lies, Art is theft, Autumn, Cosmology, John MacKenzie, New poems, Poem tweets, Poetry, Quatrains, The Moon, The Wind, Winter
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Shooting Stars
Johnny Cash & Kris Kristofferson – Sunday Morning Coming Down Shooting Stars Too many friends here begin this brief arc that shoots through their veins—its glow confined to their brains, we see only their darkening skies The sky fades from … Continue reading
Posted in Art is lies, Art is theft, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Death, John MacKenzie, Language, New poems, Poem tweets, Poetry, Poverty, Social Commentary, Tanka, Time
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The Face of Allah
I could not find the face of Allah In the debris of mountain slides, In blue fragments of mosaics, In the desolation of stars fallen behind The ground-down blade of the moon. I heard rumours he spoke in many voices … Continue reading →