photo by Alison Enslin
A place swept smooth a place
where sand and wind have agreed
to keep no record each time
a mark appears wind or water
tide or storm will erase it.
The mind is like that for all its memories
it has agreed to none of ours
individual conditions what it keeps
lies deep an animism
collected from all of us
in all conditions our sands swept smooth.
Poet Ted Enslin passed away on November 23. He was interviewed at length in 2006 about the connection between music and his poetic form by Robert Bertholf in an online edition of Conjunctions. First publication of The Weather Within (1985) was a cooperative effort between Landlocked Press, Woodland Pattern Arts Center, and Membrane Press (Light and Dust). Walter Tisdale produced an exquisitely printed limited edition letterpress, making a set of prints on hard stock from which Karl Young printed an offset trade edition. The poems of The Weather Within are presented here in their entirety.
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