My new poetry site is now up and running: www.matthewbrouwerpoet.com. Weekly poems and updates about poetry performances, workshops and such will now be featured there.

In the next month, I’m planning to revive odinstongue.com as a blog for spiritual, cultural, and political commentary as well as my home site for promoting my work as an organizational consultant and mentor.

Stay tuned. In the meantime, how about a poem:

Boulevard Park

Sun pounds the Earth with a mallet
It’s September 2
Time to cast things in bronze

Last night some longing slipped up
the Salish Sea
died it an unquenching blue

And upon the wind
first spittle of cold sends an early text

Vacation on Baffin nearly through

All of us lying out on the well-manicured grass
amidst the carefully positioned trees
trying our best to believe it can’t possibly be true

Wispy high clouds part like stage fog

And there’s half-smile moon
floating
like a white kiss

And now again she’s gone

Catch me if you can