Je suis, aussi

artwork: ralph murre

je suis ecrivain

je suis iconoclaste

je suis artiste

je suis chaque homme

je suis, aussi, charlie

~ ralph murre

(Slow) Running Things

photo: ralph murre

How slowly the writing comes these days, as evidenced by the fact that I haven't posted to this site since May.  Have barely written anything else for anywhere else.  Forgive me re-running this 10-year old piece, still possibly appropriate for the day:

Running Things

Another year

Another chance to get it right

To do the things I shoulda done

Tear down that fence I built

Quit the party

Let running things run

Another wave rolls up the beach

Tumbles stones

Polishes what survives

Shorebirds – hungry – rush

Consume the dazzled on the sands

End the safe, crustacean lives

Another day

Another chance to see the light

To see the clouded, rising sun

Copper flame in pewter bowl

Embrace the certain, coming toll

Or be a running thing, and run

~ Ralph Murre

On a brighter note, and concerning two friends for whom the writing seems to be coming along very nicely, I want to refer you to two new blogs that brighten my days considerably.  The first, a self-titled site by Mary Wehner, can be found at http://marywehner.blogspot.com and the second, called The Poet At Large, is by Al DeGenova, and is at http://albertdegenova.blogspot.com.  Beautiful.

Both sites are new enough that you can easily read them from their beginnings, an exercise quite definitely worth your while. Links to both will remain in my right-hand column under "Good Places".

Happy New Year to all.     ~ RM