GIVEN
(Note: this page will be the static address home of the 2014 poems of Samuel Barnes. All works rights reserved under creative commons open license. (Share freely) Aloha ke Akua. I … Continue reading
Above the Earth
You were floating Many hundred meters off the surface Tethered to a tensile string Revolving nineteen times a second I was standing With feet in a line and my … Continue reading
Fractal Seeds
The times at last begin Where all of life runs clockwise In pulsing moves— Exceeding speed— and ticking past the blood we bleed While in the soil fractal seeds Branch … Continue reading
Milpa Madre
“They caressed me, that is all I know.” Ours is a city of many voices, of histories and prophecies continually coming together and parting ways again. At times the narrative … Continue reading
Where Books are Loved
My house is on my back. Under silks and shoes, sheathed in Stained but still-supple leather, I slowly take my step. Streets shift and sparks surround my patient pace. But … Continue reading
What is the Word
What is the word That you have searched for for All of these years, Hiding plainly in spheres And staring you right in the eye? How might we articulate such … Continue reading
Paturage
The Sun is ripe for harvest and the spiral branch that holds it aloft is bending and breaching from keeping it up —There: day breaks— Cloudy brambles fall away and You … Continue reading
New Strings
In the crisis of creation of Every hallowed home the seed that spored true nations— phantasms and birdsong and the avenued rush of a light’s last auto and forests with … Continue reading
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