Delicate repose
a butterfly balances
on a petal's tip.
Sneak preview
through lush green foliage
one purple finch.
Cherry tree blooms
against my bedroom window
 keeps me up all night.
I will also be reading
bee & butterfly poems
at the Pollinator Palooza,
April 20, 2024, 1 pm
at Crescent Elk Middle School,
Crescent City, CA
Funded by Upstate California Creative Corps. #upstatecaliforniacreativecorps #upstateartists
“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”
“Poetry is the eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”
“I think poetry must stay open all night in beautiful cellars.”
“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”
“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
“Poetry is a lion because it eats and intensifies natural speech.”
“Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth:
the true poet is near the oracle.”
“The Kings who have died one by one are now reborn in poet’s hearts.”
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.”
“Words are alive — cut them and they bleed.”
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
“Wine is bottled poetry.”
“All night wild impulses
The only way to find a path
is to set fire to your life.”
“A poet must achieve a balance between solitude and solidarity, between feeling
and action, between intimacy of mankind and the revelation of nature.”
A poet and writer of the natural world, Terri Glass mentored under William Stafford and Robert Bly.