This Grass, the book of Gin Templeton's paintings and my poems, is finally going to see the light of day. This book came out of the multi-media showing of Gin's paintings and my poems at the Spirit Room in Fargo in the spring of 2006. Here is a sampling from the book. At right is the painting "The Spirit of Loneliness" by Gin.
Kalpa
by Jamie Parsley
Something rises—
stark white against
a horizon swirling
toward dusk.
What clouds there were
are gone, leaving heavy shadows
shimmering across the grass.
For one moment, there is
no one else in the entire world—
not one human being in any direction,
not even the sound of one.
Just an unrelenting wind
and the lark who sings to it.
I am quiet and clear-headed
in a way that surprises me
the way this day has surprised me
with its sudden shift
into blinding clarity.
I count not grass blades or gusts of wind,
but the steady tick of my life,
sighing at my neck, and in the pale
narrowness of my wrists. I listen to it
as it clicks in a place in my chest
not as hidden and secret
as I’d like it to be.
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