by Jack Ramey | Aug 6, 2020 | Jack Ramey, Poetry
Marc and Anne-Marielive in the shadow of the Marquisde Sade’s chateau betweenLe Coste and Coustelletin the hot magic of Provence. They live like children of wonderwho have no past or futurewho laugh at everythingand sing secret songs to the sun. They make large...
by Jack Ramey | Jan 11, 2019 | Jack Ramey, Poetry
. [Poem] The Iroquois called you O-he-O, the Wyandot the Oheezo, which some took to mean “sparkling,” others “white,” while the French took it to mean “beautiful” :– La Belle Rivière, the beautiful river they called you and they were right, at times you are white, at...
by Jack Ramey | Jan 10, 2019 | Jack Ramey, Poetry
. 1. A great bronze godThis morningSwollen and muddy,Slowly silting down,Muscles rippling like someGiant water stallion, Moving past Broadway, past ElmPast the geese at the floating marinaPast the stacks of the monolithic power plantPast all the bare and sunken...
by Jack Ramey | Dec 31, 2018 | Jack Ramey, Poetry
.- for the corporate heads of Honeywell Hiawatha combed the snakes From the mind, preparing the way. Preparing the way for Tadadaho, Keeper of the fire of the One United Longhouse of the Haudenosaunee, The people of the longhouse, who Keep the flames burning By...
by Jack Ramey | Dec 9, 2018 | Poetry
[Poem] Barely contained laughter slicing open the heart of the matter exposing the irony or hypocrisy of all our tendentious moments here on this long wave we’ve been riding for half a century. Jack, I see you now in old man’s shoes, a linen suit, a straw boater and a...
