Sunset Shed

Mom's new neighbor put up a shed blocking her view. We thought we'd spray paint a little smile on it.

Just for grins.

What a fun Thanksgiving.

Tweet

In a six degree wind chill,
the first spring robin is
huddled in the crab tree.
Tweet.

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Spring 2009

Judgment Day

If God created the world in six days
and rested on the seventh, how long
will Judgment Day last?

And, if on that day, sunrise starts in
your back yard, it could be over for you
well before breakfast.


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DLW 11/15/09

Untitled: to a Robyn

________________

Untitled: to a Robyn


One morning I woke up in Wisconsin
and you were in New York and
the possibility of our
ever meeting again was
on the endangered species list

(going the way of
dodo birds and dinosaurs,
in the direction of
whooping cranes and whales,
becoming a possibility extinct)

I called the D.N.R.,
the High Sierra Club of the Heart,
the Audobon Society of Finer Feelings
and then I called you

and you had seen it, too
(perhaps the last existing opportunity)
flying wild and free
in a refuge between us



-- DLW 5/18/82 --

Sunday Drive

The New Day

The New Day

The light comes
softly across the body
waking it slowly, gently.

Suddenly the ego is alert
and proclaims a new day.
A speech, a parade,
a doctoral honorarium
the ego knows it has
come into its own.
All this fuss
is just for us
and a bright future
assured
for Me Me Me

The light
and the body
know
other
wise.



D.L. White

Alphabet Soup

Alphabet Soup
Conversion Kit
$9.95

you wonder
if you won't
some day be
in to a can
with your spoon
well in hand ...

you stand in a field ...
the wind blows ...
thee oats are
sowing you ...
isn't that wild?

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David L. White
1974

Works

Thanks to my friend George
for trying to find my poetry
on the net and telling me
he couldn't

... find it.

===================
I'm working on it.

Publications

there is no door - 1974 - Vermillion Broadcaster

Poetry Group Publication - poet, printer, publisher - 1975 - PCI
Love, Basho - 1976 - Pony Express - PCI
Ice Cream Koans - 1977 - PCI, illus. by Rhoda Grossman
Panboy - a broadside with Third Coast Press - 1977, copperplate by Rhoda Grossman

Pleasant Street and Other Poems - 1979 - BRQ - Austin
Goodbye, Delmar Blue - 1979 - BRQ - Austin
Gone Fishing - a broadside - 1979 - BRQ - Austin

Believe It! - a co-pub with Anne Edwards - 1982

PandaLoon - poet, editor, printer and publisher, with other poets, 12 issues of pocket poetry chapbooks. 1998 - 1999 - Small Potatoes Press

Poems appearing in many of 65 issues of The Knews Review, a publication of the Alphabet Zoupe Memorial Library - from 1986 to 2009.

Stir Fry - a pocketbook, best of - rehash - 2008

Lost Poems in the Knews - 2010

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Poetry by David L. White

Almost everything is out of print. Please ask anyway.
Print, as we know, is ... only one vehicle.

Frog Prince

Some there are princes

and some there are frogs

yet to be a prince

is to sit on a log

is to know you're not far

from being a frog

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Pat and Claire

Pat and Claire and me out to fish fry at Benny's.

Claire's sharing a contact with Pat for Spanish interpretation.

Claire has been doing my books for over 20 years.

Thanks for dinner Claire.

Nov. 7, 2009

Pat and I had a booth at the foreign language convention for 15 years. Left four years ago. Work, but fun.

Great to pop in and visit today. Sweet sad. We did recon for a revival of adventures. Got good intel and there's ink on the drawing board again.

And then off to the Oshkosh Outlet Mall. Not a place we shop. BUT! ... We both got new bags at Wilsons Leather. Corning/Corell (sp?) a dangerous kitchen supplier - and Harry and David is so cool and ...
well .... a lovely day for a ride up Highway 45.