A.X.

@axshaw.bsky.social

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Poet/writer/words guy in the Pacific Northwest. He/him. Website: https://axshaw.com

Two books side by side. “We Sailed on the Lake” by Bill Carty and “Shadow Ticket” by Thomas Pynchon.
Two books side by side. Algospeak, by Adam Aleksic. And It Rhymes With Takei, by George Takei.
A copy of Larks by Han VanderHart and an apple being held together in one hand. The background is a brick path overgrown with grass.
Leaf Huts and Snow Houses by Olav Hauge, translated by Robert Bly These poems don't amount to much, just some words thrown together at random. And still to me there's something good in making them, it's as if I have in them for a little while a house. I think of playhouses made of branches we built when we were children: to crawl into them, sit listening to the rain, in a wild place alone, feel the drops of rain on your nose and in your hair— or snow houses at Christmas, crawl in and close it after us with a sack, light a candle, be there through the long chill evenings.
Two books side by side. “The Dream We Carry” by Olav H. Hauge and “Harmony River” by Stephen Jaech.
An index card with a haiku written in pencil on it “Blue far and rain near As many moods in the sky As people below”