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Axie ​Noyes

02/05/2018

Would you look at that! Isn’t she beautiful? It’s Jupiter’s southern pole      I remember as a kid, I must have been 4 or 5 in 1952 or 3 I was wandering around our old farmhouse unattended. They call it “benign neglect” now-a-days. That’s how we used to roll. Kids were left alone a lot.. I heard my brothers’ voices coming from a closet in their room. It was a dull summer afternoon. I must have pestered them until they let me in. Terry clambered down and opened one of the doors. He was clearly

12/05/2017

Dear Friend, When one is pitched into strange hands out of a drunken, liquid land of numbing violence and screaming swirls - often totally unrecalled... when one survives and many others die or are drifting still, one knows the gift of solid ground as others can not glean. See her there, a one-time blurred object, a weak and whispered coward, who chose and chose again the spinning and chaotic gale of drugs and alcohol....who measured her insides by others skins and shells. Then, feeling always

09/13/2016

I lit a fire out under the stars and watched the half moon, full sail across the southern sky. And it seemed I might have received a transmission of sorts. Been thinking of time and memory and the work and lives of ancestors and my own mission here, this time around. I wondered about distance and how, if everything that was there at the start - the first bang - is still here, how is it that some parts are so far away now? Are we like sail boats in a race where some catch a better wind? A land

07/26/2016

On a morning when I’m sober... First my dachshund wakes me at five for her raw drumstick. I've been feeding her inside for a while now because the robins have built a nest on the back porch light and I don’t want to open the door ‘til later…. don’t want to frighten them off the nest too early. I wander back to my bed. What was I dreaming? I was writing a poem in my sleep. “Who builds the bow to hit the heart?…..” I scratch something down in my dream book without turning on the light. I lie

02/05/2018