Backward Mutters

Category: poetry

  • Listen

    Listen

    Some words which came while sitting in the garage before a fall rain. You listen, and you know it means something, But just what it means has not yet formed or Settled; You’re tempted to think it’s nothing, But you linger a moment at the door. And there in that…

  • All You Can Do

    All You Can Do

    In her talk about her documentary on Wendell Berry entitled, Look and See, Laura Dunn records Wendell Berry who says, “We all come from divorce. This is an age of divorce. Things that belong together have been taken apart. And you can’t put it all back together again. What you…

  • Success

    Success

    Sometimes poems come quickly, and you don’t know from where or sometimes fully comprehend what they even meaning. (This sounds like a disclaimer). All the same, here it is. It must be that people are called to succeed By the way that they pull up and leave, Run from sadness,…

  • More

    More

    “Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But…

  • Heavy Emptiness

    Heavy Emptiness

    The heavy emptiness: One’s lightness of being, The loss of substance and purpose, The clarity of vision for the day and week. And then one’s lost Which is an eternity of loss or at least An indefinite hole in the future. The empty arms that held and hugged Now holding…