July-August 2019 PKA PRESENTS LIFE IS GOOD

12- July-August 2019
A Few Poems
by Curtiss Plaskon from his book,
Scribbling In The Margins.s
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The Duality of Love
Word Art
By CurtISS Plaskon
Somewhere, sweet, blue-white piñon pine
Smoke is curling out of a cabin chimney and a
Coyote is howling in the brittle night air spooked
By the sparkly smear of stars in the sky.
Lucky is the one who can see, smell, and hear art.
By CurtISS Plaskon
Let us fall at each other’s feet
At the same instant.
Neither we nor they will know
Who be the lover and who be
The beloved.
Only the state of love allows
For this duality within oneself.
Life Close Up
By CurtISS Plaskon
I would like to think that I have grabbed
Life by the lapels and pulled it tightly up
Against me to feel its heartbeat, smell
Its breath, and see my reflection in its eyes.
I should think that my arms would have
Grown weary of this constant intimacy. I
Have lived so many lives. I took them as
They came. Some brought luck– many did not.
Supernova
By CurtISS Plaskon
I watched a piece of glitter fall in your hair
Today.
Insignificant I thought– a bit of civilizations’
Dross, a benign speck of humanity’s detritus.
Not so. A billion years ago, a star exploded
And disappeared though it blew new life into
The stellar nurseries. Once again, our galaxy
Was refreshed.
All but that one errant piece of a dying star;
Falling, falling; a million years of falling to
Land in your hair today.
I wonder, did it seek you out?
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF
CURTISS PLASKON
Our Multiparous Moon
By CurtISS Plaskon
Last night, the bright crescent moon hung
low and close as it retreated from its recent
perigean visit.
So bright, she showed her growing fullness
like a late-term mother assuring us once
again, her eternal multiparous and the
presentation of future wonders.