Sebastian Matthews Q&A on morning lines
Sebastian Matthews talks about writing morning lines.
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Sebastian Matthews Q&A on becoming a poet
Sebastian Matthews discusses how he became a poet.
To Whoever Set My Truck On Fire
But let us be friends awhile and understand our differences are small and that they float like dust in sunny rooms and let us settle into the good work of being strangers simply who have something to say in the middle of the night for you have said something that interests me—something of flames, […]
Ode to Rosa Parks
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Ode to the Perineum
Maybe the soul is only a small place on the body –Larry Levis And maybe not. Maybe the invisible filament that flickers in the idea of the soul is the soul. Some hummingbird of the universal mind– brightly colored, precise and infinitely quick. And dull. It shouldn’t be, in any case, as intimate as say, […]
For the Last American Buffalo
Because words dazzle in the dizzy light of things and the soul is like an animal–hunted and slow– this buffalo walks through me every night as if I was some kind of prairie and hunkers against the cold dark, snorting under the stars while the fog of its breathing rises in the air, and it […]
For the Eighth Annual Celebration of St. Cecilia, the Patron Saint of Music, Purcellville, Virginia, November 1999
In the golden spruce front of a violin, there in the alternating lines of dark and light like sometimes the rain or rays of the sun fall down, you can see as […]