poe Tree: June 2013

Saturday, June 22, 2013

Happy Full Moon

Happy FULL Strawberry Moon!
Officially tomorrow morn at 7:32 AM.
(Art © 2013 by j. m. Scoville)

Labels: Full Moon

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Lawrence Ferlighetti: Poetry is Dead. Long Live Poetry!

Labels: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poetry, Poets

notes on poetry

Incidental Comics by Grant Snider, originally published 08/13/11

Labels: Comics, Incidental Comics by Grant Snider, Poetry

Shrine by Deng Ming-Dao

Wade the warm stream to
The shrine across the river of golden sound,
Where a drunken bee drones the holy syllable
Over a crimson lotus.
Rich mango magenta and spice offerings
Are piled high by the devout.
Entering into hut of blue stone –
Cool black interior smeared with incense and
Pierced with tiny triangles of candle flame –
Ordinary cares fall to the crystalline floor.
Fiery letters appear in the air
And reappear in your heart.

~Shrine, Deng Ming-Dao

Labels: Deng Ming-Dao, Poetry, Taoism

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Louis Kahan on Art

Labels: Louis Kahan

About Me

Name: jimmy scoville

Location: down 'round New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Now residing unevenly north of New Orleans, across The Lake & out in the backwoods with his little Catahoula mix dog, I am originally from the southern Oregon coast & have been a former A.P.E., tortilla baker in a Mexican foods factory, farmhand, political cartoonist, barista, sales clerk, beer-tender, performance poet, pizza maker, puller on a shrimp boat, bookseller, busboy in a Chinese restaurant, produce manager, massage bootlegger, playwright, library page, newspaper editor & reporter, filmmaker, etc. Often this blog will deal with Migraines & Seizures, which I am a daily sufferer. In addition to all that, twice I have almost died. Once when attempting to swim across Silver Creek (in the Rogue River valley of Oregon), I was caught by an undercurrent and carried a good distance towards the rapids. The second time was when I was driving with a friend up a Fire Service road to the fire lookout tower on Bald Knob (in the same region). The car fell off the mountain. Only a four-inch tree and two small boulders saved his car from falling several hundred feet. There were no other trees or rocks for fifty yards either way, keeping me alive to be read on this blog.

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