Logo for California Poets in the Schools Program. Terri Glass coordinates the Marin program California Poets in the Schools and served as their statewide director from 2008 to 2011.
Cold overcast morning
the neighborhood, no one dares
to get out of bed.
Overhead
thrum of rubber bands—
wings of Canada geese.
Autumn forest
scat, paw prints, hollowed out hives
but never the bear!
I will read poems about local flora and fauna including poems from my project called Plea for Wildlife about the endangered species in Del Norte County.
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“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”
“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”
“All night wild impulses
The only way to find a path
is to set fire to your life.”
“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
“The Kings who have died one by one are now reborn in poet’s hearts.”
“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.”
“A poet must achieve a balance between solitude and solidarity, between feeling
and action, between intimacy of mankind and the revelation of nature.”
“Poetry is a lion because it eats and intensifies natural speech.”
“Poetry is the eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
“Wine is bottled poetry.”
“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”
“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
“I think poetry must stay open all night in beautiful cellars.”
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”
“Words are alive — cut them and they bleed.”
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
“Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth:
the true poet is near the oracle.”
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
A poet and writer of the natural world, Terri Glass mentored under William Stafford and Robert Bly.